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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 1,945 total.
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- 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
- 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)
- Community Lands
- Community Rights
- Community Wireless Networking as a Culture and Economics of Autonomy
- Community-Based Land Governance Systems
- Community-Driven Sustainable Fisheries
- Community-Owned Assets
- Communology
- Companies of the Commons
- Complex System Approach in Higher Education of the Commons
- Computing Commons
- Comunes
- Comunes Association
- Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind in International Law
- Concept of the Commons and the Convergence of the Social Movements
- Conception-Aware, Object-Oriented Organization
- Conceptualizing Seed Commons
- Connected Action for the Commons
- Connecting the Commons and the Solidarity Economy as a Governance Issue
- Connecting the Commons and the Solidarity Economy Through Shared Governance Mechanisms
- Consciousness and the Post-Capitalist Commons
- Conserving Agrobiodiversity in an Andean Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Area
- Constituent Assembly of the Commons
- Constitutional Assembly of the Commons
- Constitutionalizing Common Goods
- Constitutionalizing the Commons
- Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment
- Contemplative Commons
- Contemporary Commons-Oriented Movements
- Contributive Commons as Tools for Reciprocity
- Convergence on Post Capitalist Transition
- Conversation sur l'Economie des Communs
- Conversation with Kate Raworth and George Monbiot about the Potential of the Commons
- Conversational Commons
- Coop des Communs
- Cooperation Commons Maps
- Cooperative Commonwealth Connections in Ireland
- Cooperative Governance of Public Forests in Oregon
- Cooperative Governance of the Agricultural Before the Industrial Revolution
- Cooperative Place Making and the Capturing of Land Value for 21st Century Garden Cities
- Cooperative Wealth Building
- CoopFunding
- Coping with Tragedies of the Commons
- Cornucopia of the Commons
- Corona and the Commons
- Corporation as Commons
- Courtney Carothers on Fisheries Privatization as a False Panacea for Commons Management
- Creating an Intellectual Commons Through Open Access
- Creating Legal Foundations for the Commons
- Creating the Commons through a Contemporary Agora
- Creative Anti-Commons
- Creative Commons
- Crises, Movements and Commons
- Crisis Commons
- Crisis of the Pastoral Commons
- Critical Approach towards the Energy Commons
- Critical Commons
- Critical Essays on the Enclosure of the Cultural Commons
- Crofting
- Cross Sectoral Commons Governance in Southern Africa
- Crypto Commons
- Crypto Commons Association
- Cryptocommons
- Cultural Commons
- Cultural Commons Collecting Society
- Cultural Commons Project
- Culture Commons Quest Office
- Culture of the Commons in a Time of Civilizational Transition
- Currencies, Governments, and the Commons
- Currency of the Commons Transmediale 2011 Panel
- Customary Land Tenure in Africa
- Customer Commons
- Cybernetics of the Commons
- Cybernetics Valuable to the Commons and for Understanding AI
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- Dagmar Scholle
- Daisee
- Dalits and the Commons
- Dalits and the Spirituality of the Commons
- Dan Sullivan on Capturing the Value of the Commons through a Land Value Tax
- Dan Sullivan on the Land Value Tax as a Community Development Tool
- Daniel Hikuroa on Experimenting with Commons as the Voice of the River in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Daniel Kevles on Patenting Life and Its Parts
- Daphne Buellesbach
- Dario Azzellini on Production and Common
- Dario Azzellini on the Social Commons
- Data Commons
- Data Commons Cooperative
- Data Commons License
- David Bollier
- David Bollier on Building a New Digital Republic
- David Bollier on Framing the Commons
- David Bollier on Governing the Digital Commons
- David Bollier on Green Governance and the Law of the Commons
- David Bollier on the Commons
- David Bollier on the Commons as an Approach to Governance, Sustainability and Social Wellbeing
- David Bollier on the Global Commons Movement
- David Bollier on the Global Status of the Commons Movement in 2011-2012
- David Bollier on the International Developments of the Commons in 2012
- David Bollier on the State of the Commons in 2017