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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
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 10 total.
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Pages in category "Commons"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,954 total.
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- Hervé Le Crosnier
- Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons
- Hilary Wainwright
- Hilary Wainwright on Labor as a Commons
- Hima
- Historical Commons-Oriented Movements
- History and Evolution of the Commons
- History and Theory of Commons
- History Commons
- History of Commons and Enclosure
- History of Commons-Based Land Reform
- History of Monetary Reform in the Context of the Commons
- History of the Movement for the Digital Commons
- Hive Commons
- Hobohemia Commons
- Holger Lauinger
- Homes of Commons
- Homestead Commons
- Horizon of the Commons
- Household as Commons
- Housing Commons
- How Commons Grassroots Activists Are Shaping the Future
- How Commons' Rights Differ from Human Rights
- How Community Managed Software Projects Protect Their Commons
- How Do We Build a Global Social Contract
- How Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Are Successfully Managing Their Community Forest
- How More Democratic Forms of Ownership of Land and Housing Can Revive Our Places
- How the Blockchain Might Support a Commons
- How the Capitalist Agrarian Revolution Affected the Commons and Property Regimes
- How to Reap the Benefits of the Digital Revolution, Modularity and the Commons
- Howard Rheingold on Reclaiming the Attention Commons
- HowlRound
- HowlRound Theatre Commons
- Human Data Commons
- Human Data Commons Foundation
- Human Genome Project
- Humanities Commons
- Hunting Commons
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- Iain Boal
- Ian McShane on the Australian Take on the Commons
- Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
- Idea of Food as Commons or Commodity in Academia
- Ideological History of the Urge to Own
- Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons
- Implementing a Traditional Knowledge Commons
- In Common Podcast on Finding Sustainability
- Inaki Lopez
- Inalienability of the Commons
- Inclusive Governance and Generative Value in Knowledge Commons
- Incubators of Commons
- Indian Forest Rights Act
- Indigenia House-Free Commons
- Indigenous Commons
- Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas
- Indigenous Peoples and the Commons
- Indigo Landed Commons in the Flanders Study
- Industrial Commons
- Info-Energy Commons
- Information as a Common-Pool Resource
- Information as Common Good or as Property
- Information Commons
- Information Commons Movement
- Infrastructural Commons for Sustainability
- Infrastructure Commons
- Infrastructure Commons in Economic Perspective
- Infrastructuring for Cultural Commons
- Infrastructuring the Commons
- Ingrédients pour faciliter le développement d'un commun libre
- Institute of the Commons
- Institutional Resilience in Non Conventional Economic Systems
- Insurgent Power of the Commons
- Integrated Water Resources Management 2.0
- Integrating Peering and Pooling Protocols
- Intercoll Working Group on Common Goods
- International Association for the Study of the Commons
- International Commons Conference - 2010
- International Commons Conference - 2010/Interpretative Summary
- International Commons Court
- International Commons Courts
- International Journal of the Commons
- International Law of the Sea as Public Domain versus Private Commodity
- Internet as a Super-Commons
- Internet as Commons
- Internet Commons
- Internet Is a Semicommons
- Interview with Cecile Blanchet of the Commons Network
- Interview with Lewis Hyde on the Commons
- Interview with Massimo De Angelis on the Commons
- Interview with Michael Hardt on the Common
- Interview with Niaz Dorry on Marine Diversity Through Local Fisheries and Ocean Commons
- Interview with Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval on the Politics of the Common
- Interview with Sophie Bloemen and David Hammerstein on the Commons Network
- Interview with Stavros Stavrides on the Commons
- Introduction to Commons Economics
- Introduction to Global Commons
- Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Commons Economics
- Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about the Commons
- Introduction to the PsyCommons
- Introductory Course on P2P and the Commons
- Inventing the Common
- Investigation of Complementary Currencies and their Ethical Implications
- Irena Salina about the Water Commons against Water Scarcity
- Iriai - Commons in Japan
- Irish Brehon Laws
- Isabella Lövin on Pillaging the Sea as Another Tragedy of the Commons
- Ismaël Sene
- Istanbul Urban Commons Workshop
- Italia dei Beni Comuni
- Italian Constituent for the Commons
- Ivan Illich and the Commons
- Ivan Illich on the Recovery of the Commons
- Ivan Illich on Thresholds and Proportionality in the Climate Commons
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- Jagdeesh Rao
- James Quilligan
- James Quilligan About Why We Have to Occupy the Commons
- James Quilligan on Cap and Rent for Climate Change
- James Quilligan on Covenants for Inclusive Stewardship of the Commons
- James Quilligan on Creating Sustainability Currency Value Through Commons Strategies
- James Quilligan on Finance as a Commons
- James Quilligan on Redeveloping a Vernacular for the Commons
- James Quilligan on the History of the Commons, Monetary Policy, and the Future of Democracy
- Jamie Harvie
- Jamie Harvie on Early Lessons from The Food Commons
- Jan Inglis
- Janelle Orsi on the Eight Principles for Commons Based Legal Structures
- Jason Nardi on the Rise of the Commons in Italy
- Jay Walljasper
- Jay Walljasper on the Three Tenets of the Commons
- Jean-Luc Melenchon and the Commons
- Jessie Henshaw
- Jim Olson on Regaining Legal Rights to Your Commons
- Jobs, Liberty and the Bottom Line
- John Clare and the Manifold Commons
- John D. Schmidt and James Quilligan on the Commons and Integral Capital
- Jordan Hall on Using the Jubilee for a Return to the Commons
- Jose Luis Vivero on Food as a Commons
- Jose Luis Vivero-Pol on Food Commons
- Jose Ramos
- Joseph Dimento on the Environmental Governance of an Ocean Commons in the Arctic
- Judaism and the Commons
- Jukka Peltokoski
- Julia Gechter
- Julie Ristau
- Julio Lambing
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- Katarzyna Gajewska
- Katerina Troullaki
- Kathryn Milun
- Keeping Local Agriculture Alive through Land Trusts
- Kevin Cahill on Who Owns the Land in Britain
- Kevin Flanagan on Transition According to P2P
- Kevin Hansen
- Kimberlee Chang and Adriana Molina-Garzon on the Emergence of Forest Commons Institutions in Bolivia and Uganda
- Knowledge and Science as Commons
- Knowledge as a Commons
- Knowledge Commons
- Knowledge, Culture and Science as Commons
- Koinomics
- Komunal
- Komunal Urbanism Social Charter
- Kris Decoodt on the Commons Stack Project
- Kultursaat e.V. Seed Commons - Germany
- Kyrgyz Land Commons
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- LabGov
- Labor as a Common Pool Resource
- Labor Commons
- Labor Commons Union
- Labor Unions as Common Pool Management Groups
- Laboratorio del Procomun
- Laboratory for the Governance of the Commons
- Labour as a Commons
- Labour as a Commons in Worker-Recuperated Companies
- Labour as Commoning
- Labour of the Commons as the Communism of Capital
- Labour Power as a Common-Pool Resource
- Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya
- Land
- Land and Resource Scarcity Under Capitalism
- Land as a Commons and Water as a Commons
- Land as a Commons in the Cooperative Tradition
- Land as Commons
- Land as Community Property
- Land Commons
- Land Commons Federation
- Land Commons in Scotland
- Land Ethics
- Land Grant Universities
- Land is a Natural Commons
- Land Is Not A Commodity
- Land Security Agenda
- Land Share Systems
- Land Sharing
- Land Tenure Rights for Subsistence Commons
- Land Value Tax
- Landed Commons
- Landscape Commons
- Latin America Commons Deep Dive
- Law and the Commons
- Law of the Commons
- Law of the Ecological Commons
- Lawrence Lohmann