Hardin’s imagined tragedy is pig shit: A call for planning to recenter the commons

Brinkley, Catherine

doi:10.1177/1473095218820460

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“…Policymakers and spatial planners are, in turn, called to re-centre their responsibility around generating commons and enabling such practices of commoning (Brinkley, 2020). That means both revisiting normative understandings of citizenship and democracy, and creating or re-designing formal institutions organized around principles of de-commodification and collective benefit.…”

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Toward the commoning of governance

Leitheiser

Trell

Horlings

et al. 2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Conventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the only valid possibilities in both theory and practice, this stale dilemma covers up a real multitude of actually existing alternative approaches to governance practiced in civil society. State/Market approaches are identical in the way that they construct a ‘spectator’ role for communities, who are left to choose between their preferred set of rules and norms developed elsewhere. The concept of commoning governance offers an opportunity to break free of this stalemate. It creates a new role for citizens and their communities as ‘sparring partners’; who although they operate within the limits of current State/Market institutions, create new norms and rules against and beyond them. In the paper, we first expand on our understanding of commoning governance: re-designing governance arrangements to serve the common good. That is here understood in terms of (radical) democracy, solidarity and sustainable ecological relationships. Second, we illustrate how commoning efforts on the ground contribute to the reclaiming of the democratic imaginary as a political arena by zooming in to a case study of the three cities involved in civic-led network of German Food Policy Councils. Finally, we reflect on the empirical barriers that communities of commoning endure, and call on policymakers, planners and scholars to interrogate their own normative understandings of citizenship and democracy, and begin to recognize theoretical and latent possibilities by enabling commoning with new or re-designed institutions of governance.

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confidence: 99%

Toward the commoning of governance

Leitheiser

Trell

Horlings

et al. 2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Furthermore, this ICT-enabled corporate smart urbanisation contributes to an expansion of social and political responsibilities, leading to the possible alternative development of commons-oriented smart urbanisation (Niaros, 2016). Commons carries the meaning of peer production or a shared-resource system, where public values to society are emphasized over private values (Brinkley, 2020).…”

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“…The existing form of capitalism has faced the cultural hegemony issue of a legitimacy crisis. Hence, civil societies are strongly urged to participate in political decision making (Brinkley, 2020). This new common sense is Science and Management Volume 16 Number 4, June 2021: 190-219 known as "ecological democracy", which is grounded in the seminal work of Ostrom (1990), classical works of Karl Marx and Henry David Thoreau and spinning back through history and beyond in the wisdom of indigenous peoples and the practices of the commons (Pascoe, 2014).…”

Section: A Comparison Of the Characteristics Of Capitalism And Ecological Democracymentioning

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Sdgs, Smart Urbanisation and Politics: Stakeholder Partnerships and Environmental Cases in Malaysia

Lim¹,

Malek²,

Hussain³

et al. 2021

JSSM

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Consequent to the declaration of achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by United Nations in 2016, most of the countries with capitalist politics have chosen to adopt "smart urbanisation" as a tool to help them gear up for national development. However, research shows that most countries, including Malaysia, are not on the right track. Thus, this research paper aims to examine the alternative political policies besides that of a capitalist/liberal democracy, such as ecological democracy, that the Malaysian smart urbanisation movement should follow to achieve the SDGs. This study applied the method of case study analysis in examining empirical examples related to stakeholder partnerships and environmental cases in smart urbanisation in Malaysia. This paper argues that achieving the SDGs with the current capitalist hegemony poses a significant challenge to countries. However, with environmental ethics in mind, it is possible to achieve the SDGs with the trust granted by the government in the form of participatory politics. The SDGs also need to be overhauled and rewritten under the realm of ecological democracy. The implications of the findings include creating a call for support for an emerging ecological democracy that is particularly compatible with the SDGs as well as embedded in the natural environment, social and economic developments.

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“…The work of institutional economist Elinor Ostrom (1990), among others, has carefully documented thousands of instances in which communities have managed and governed their own common resources (for millennia) in ways that resemble neither states nor markets (cf. Brinkley, 2020). The various systems of resource management that Ostrom documented did not use the modern economist's logic of rivalry and excludability.…”

Section: Food-commons Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%