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The Commons is a central concept relating to very many other topics in this Wiki.
Michel Bauwens states the P2P position thus: "A commons is
- shared resources (i.e. there is something objective about it)
- maintained or co-produced by a community or group of stakeholders (hence: a subjective activity and choice, 'there is no commons without commoning') and
- it is managed according to the rules and values of that community ('autonormativity'), which makes it also an alternative governance and property regime."
(from the Commons page on this Wiki)
The Wikipedia entry gives the origin of the term thus: "the Roman legal category res communis, applied to things common to all to be used and enjoyed by everyone, as opposed to res publica, applied to public property managed by the government."
Key Ideas
- "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a famous paper by Garrett Hardin, which was sometimes taken as dismissing the feasibility of commons in general. But as the author later admitted, (e.g. [1]) the "tragedy" properly relates to "unmanaged" commons, not to all commons.
- Elinor Ostrom is widely cited and quoted as a key author in the field. She researched and documented several examples of commons that are effectively managed.
- See our page on Enclosure to understand the meaning and significance of enclosure in opposing the Commons.
- Commons-Based Peer Production points to a strategy for economic activity based on the commons. The P2P Foundation specifically aims to create a commons-centric society. See the article: Michel Bauwens' Blueprint for P2P Society
Useful Learning Resources
Introductory
- Our page on Commons
- Quotes on the Commons
Deeper Study
- Commons Transition and P2P: A Primer (2017) by Michel Bauwens et al. starts with some helpful basic explanation, and continues to around 50 pages of explaining related concepts including the politics of the commons, and Commons Transition.
- Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about the Commons compiled by Michel Bauwens (ex category page)
Related Categories
for subcategories, see below
- Category: Collaborative Economy – in our view, a collaborative economy is based around the commons
- And Category: Peerproduction is a key concept in the collaborative economy
Subcategories
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Pages in category "Commons"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,950 total.
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- Commons and Education
- Commons and Medieval Identity
- Commons and Primitive Accumulation
- Commons and their Governance
- Commons and their Role in the Ecological Transition
- Commons and World Governance
- Commons Animateurs
- Commons Animators
- Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
- Commons Approach to European Knowledge Policy
- Commons Approach to Sustainability
- Commons as a Challenge for Classical Economics
- Commons as a Different Engine of Innovation
- Commons as a Model for Art
- Commons as a New Democratic Paradigm in Global Governance
- Commons as a New Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy
- Commons as a Non-Modern Art of Governing in a Modern World
- Commons as a Path for Philanthropy
- Commons as a Rhizomatic Movement
- Commons as a Template for Transformation
- Commons as a Transformation Paradigm
- Commons as an Ecological Imperative
- Commons as Community
- Commons as Infrastructures
- Commons as Non-Modern
- Commons as Political Subject
- Commons as Property
- Commons as Shared Infrastructures for Businesses
- Commons Association
- Commons at Sea
- Commons at the Rio 20 People's Summit
- Commons at the Rio+20 People's Summit
- Commons Between Dreams and Reality
- Commons Beyond Market and State
- Commons Camp
- Commons Choir
- Commons Circuits of Value
- Commons Clause
- Commons Collecting Society
- Commons Connection Between Land, Food, and Money
- Commons Convergence
- Commons Cooperative
- Commons Course
- Commons Creation Project
- Commons Culture Communication
- Commons Culture Communications - 2013
- Commons Data
- Commons Data Centers
- Commons Debate in Dakar
- Commons Education
- Commons Enabling Infrastructures
- Commons Equity Society
- Commons Europe
- Commons FAQ
- Commons Film
- Commons Finance Canvas
- Commons for Agricultural Innovation
- Commons for Commons-Research in France
- Commons for Peace as a Anti-Enclosure Movement
- Commons for Supply Chains in the Post‐COVID‐19 Era
- Commons Framework
- Commons Governance in Design
- Commons Governance Work Group
- Commons Guide to Placemaking
- Commons Guide to Placemaking, Public Space, and Enjoying a Convivial Life
- Commons Health Care
- Commons Health Hospital Challenge
- Commons Hospitality Network
- Commons Identikit
- Commons In A Box
- Commons in a Glocal World
- Commons in Catalonia
- Commons in Galicia
- Commons in History
- Commons in Italy
- Commons in Marx’s Thinking
- Commons in Neoliberal Capitalism
- Commons in Political Spaces for a Post-Capitalist Transition
- Commons in South East Europe
- Commons in the Post-Soviet Area - 2013
- Commons Knowledge Alliance
- Commons Lab
- Commons Lab Antwerp
- Commons Lab at Wilson Center
- Commons Law
- Commons Law Project
- Commons Learning Alliance
- Commons Library Project
- Commons Machinery
- Commons Movement
- Commons Movement Is Spreading Throughout Greece
- Commons Network
- Commons of Capability
- Commons of Health and Well-Being
- Commons of Soil
- Commons Paradigm
- Commons Perspectives in South Korea
- Commons Podcast Series
- Commons Politics as Reform vs Revolution
- Commons Practices, Boundaries and Thresholds
- Commons Principles
- Commons Recovery Foundation
- Commons Reserve Currency
- Commons Rights
- Commons Rights Are Not Legal Rights
- Commons Rising
- Commons Sense Forum
- Commons Sense Thinkery on the Common
- Commons Society Foundation
- Commons Solutions Lab
- Commons Sovereigns
- Commons State
- Commons Stewardship Certification
- Commons Strategies Group
- Commons Timeline
- Commons To Capital
- Commons to Commons
- Commons Transition Strategies for Reform or Revolution
- Commons Trusts
- Commons Trusts FAQ
- Commons under Neoliberal Capitalism
- Commons Video
- Commons vs Commodities
- Commons, Class Struggle and the World
- Commons, Communities and State Appropriation
- Commons, Enclosures and Resistance
- Commons, Market, Capital and the State
- Commons, Markets and Associations in the European Middle Ages
- Commons, Marxism and Historical Stadialism
- Commons, State, and Transformative Politics
- Commons-Based Agricultural Innovation
- Commons-Based Arbitration Association
- Commons-Based Business Models
- Commons-Based Capabilities
- Commons-Based Cases in Alternative Energy
- Commons-Based Climate Response
- Commons-Based Cryptocurrencies
- Commons-Based Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age
- Commons-Based Ideas to Support Artists
- Commons-Based International Food Treaty
- Commons-Based Legal Service Trusts
- Commons-Based Media Production
- Commons-Based Model for Energy Production
- Commons-Based Multilateralism
- Commons-Based Mutualized Finance
- Commons-Based Needs
- Commons-Based Organizational Forms
- Commons-Based Peer Production
- Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression in Greece
- Commons-Based Peer Production and Education
- Commons-Based Political Ideas for a New Europe
- Commons-Based Provisioning of Meaningful Livelihoods
- Commons-Based Provisioning of Opportunities To Learn
- Commons-Based Provisioning of Security
- Commons-Based Reciprocity Licenses
- Commons-Based Renewable Energy in the Age of Climate Collapse
- Commons-Based Resources
- Commons-Based Responsible Research and Innovation
- Commons-Based Society
- Commons-based Solutions
- Commons-Based Subjectivity
- Commons-Based Urbanism
- Commons-Based Valuation
- Commons-Based Welfare Infrastructures in European Cities
- Commons-Innovations Vouchers
- Commons-Institut
- Commons-Managed Aquifer Recharge System - Sierra Nevada, Spain
- Commons-Oriented Economists
- Commons-Oriented Economists Draft Version
- Commons-Oriented Pattern Language
- Commons-Oriented Websites in Austria
- Commons-Public Partnerships
- Commons-University Partnerships
- CommonsCloud
- CommonsLab
- CommonsPolis
- Commonsware
- Commonties
- Commonwealth
- Commonwealth of Knowledge
- Commonwealth of Nature
- Commonwealth of Networks
- ComMount Research Project on the Swiss Mountain Commons
- Commun
- Communal Property
- Communal Systems in Central and South America
- Communalization of Housework
- Communication Commons
- Communisation
- Communities of Production and Sharing in Greece
- Community Commons Working Group
- Community Control of Knowledge
- Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town
- Community Forestry
- Community Forestry Program in Nepal
- Community Garden Commons
- Community Governance in Digital Commons
- Community Land
- Community Land Trust and the Public Benefits of Taxing Unearned Income
- Community Land Trusts (UK)