Conviviality
By Marianne Gronemeyer, Patterns of Commoning
“Conviviality” is still a foreign word, one that triggers the question, “Well, what does it mean?”
Tag: commoning
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?
Minimum Wage or Commoning?
By Silke Helfrich, STIR
In such a context, the minimum wage – which is supposed to create a minimum level of equality in formal terms – can never create a feeling of social justice.
David Bollier on Patterns of Commoning
By Cat Johnson, Shareable
You have to start talking about the commons as this organic whole, and not as this machine you can break down into parts or dissect. It’s a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness.
Concepts for a Fenced-off World
By Brian Davey, Feasta
There is often a potential for sharing and mutual accommodation that is being ignored.
Commoning
By Brian Davey, Feasta
This chapter explores the features of sustainable commons and the extent of commons today. It describes the practice of commoning as a possible response to the ecological crisis.
What is the Lifeblood of a Commons?
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
We have so internalized the logic of neoliberal economics and modernity, even those of us who would like to think otherwise, that we don’t really appreciate how deeply our minds have been colonized.
The austerity of the commons: a struggle for the essential
By Dario Gentili, Andrea Mura, Open Democracy
In a precarious context induced by a struggle for the essential, one term has re-emerged as indispensable, providing many of us with a new sense of direction, creation and sharing, and ultimately, like a boomerang, assuming the ‘austere’ dignity of that which cannot be renounced: the commons.
The commoning of patterns and the patterns of commoning: A short sketch
By Franz Nahrada, The Wealth of the Commons
There are a thousand ways of doing things wrong – and only a few ways of doing things right.
The Structural Communality of the Commons
By Stefan Meretz, David Bollier blog
The commons are as varied as life itself, and yet everyone involved with them shares common convictions. If we wish to understand these convictions, we must realize what commons mean in a practical sense, what their function is and always has been. That in turn includes that we concern ourselves with people. After all, commons or common goods are precisely not merely “goods,” but a social practice that generates, uses and preserves common resources and products. In other words, it is about the practice of commons, or commoning, and therefore also about us. The debate about the commons is also a debate about images of humanity. So let us take a step back and begin with the general question about living conditions.