The programme for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" is now available on our website.
⏳ The call for papers for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" ends tomorrow, 15 December!
📅 The meeting will take place via Zoom on 14-15 March 2024.
🗣 The call for papers for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" is ongoing.
The meeting will take place via Zoom on 14 and 15 March 2024.
🗣 The call for papers for the #Commoning congress is ongoing.
The online congress will focus on the practice of commoning throughout history with the primary objective to present innovative research informed by critical interculturality.
🗣 We’ve just open the #CFP for the online congress on the practice of #Commoning throughout history, with the primary objective to present innovative research informed by critical interculturality.
Gibt es hier eigentlich Menschen, die aus den Bereichen Mettmann (Kreis), Wuppertal oder dem eher südlichen Ruhrgebiet kommen und Lust auf Commoning oder wenigstens Transition haben?
Ich suche Interessierte für Lokale Utopien und schon Involvierte in alle Formen von vor allem gesellschaftlicher/gemeinschaftlicher Transformation.
Gerne teilen, es mangelt mir an Reichweite.
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#Welcome to all #Newbies! To me, the #Fediverse is at the core of a wider #Commoning movement - ever more of us realising that other worlds are possible and building these together.
2023 is 50ys since Schumacher’s #SmallIsBeautiful & this cover sums it all up: the new world is almost born and it’s happening here (paraphrasing #Gramsci) 😊
Everybody should watch this #LedByDonkeys clip: Water Privatisation is a con. A complete, utter con. We should just get rid of all this - nobody benefits but rich investors
In most of the world, the commons were enclosed by states on behalf of the capital class, stealing our common inheritance and trampling on our ancient rights. There’s very little left of the commons in the world.
But! There are a handful of countries where people managed to codify rights to transit regardless of private property boundaries into law, almost all in the northernmost parts of Europe: Scotland, Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.
I don’t have a very good theory as to why rights to roam survived in these places but not others. It seems like a plausible explanation could involve how remote and mountainous most of these areas are—the state might have struggled to assert itself even in those areas subject to colonization and enclosure (like Scotland and Samiland), allowing previous rights of way to survive.
But that’s a guess at best. Anyone know the historical political economy behind this relic?
@HeavenlyPossum
This goes back to traditional nomadic livelihoods in these regions. However, transit rights usually do not include the permission to USE the land. What #commons are all about is not the land (or other commonly managed resources), this is only the material precondition. The main thing is a social condition enabling the commonly managed use of it, which is referred to as #commoning.