Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons

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“…Ostrom (1990Ostrom ( , 2010 demonstrated that local, self-organized communities have long established institutional arrangements to sustainably manage 'common-pool resources' (CPR) without resorting to government regulation or privatization. A next generation of scholars has expanded on Ostrom's findings to apply her principles to different types of commons, including urban commons (Foster & Iaione, 2016), knowledge commons (Madison et al, 2009), and global commons (Hudson et al, 2019).…”

Section: From Commons To Commoningmentioning

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What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire

Devillers

2023

International Journal of the Commons

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The need for a fundamental transformation of food systems is now widely recognized. As a response to the intersecting crises facing the food system, scholars and activists have proposed to move beyond understandings of food as a commodity, instead reconceptualizing it as a commons. Drawing on political ecology, feminist theory, and diverse economies literatures, this paper focuses on the concept of food commoning, defined as the activities conducted by communities who co-produce, manage, and benefit from shared food resources. Through the case study of Oxfordshire, it explores how COVID-19 has strengthened and expanded creative practices tied to food sharing. This study's emphasis on the praxis of commoning multiplies the sites and temporalities that can be commoned, revealing the existence of commoning efforts and practices at all levels of the food chain. The findings suggest that these initiatives produce resilient entanglements grounded in reciprocity, care, and sustainability, thereby resignifying the values that govern food production, distribution, and consumption. Beyond individual food commons, I argue that building food commoning networks creates opportunities to integrate heterogenous food commons operating at all levels of the food system into a systemic alternative, which points to the possibility of (re)commoning the entirety of the food system. Highlighting their prefigurative potential, commoning assemblages are carving out spaces of possibility in the current socio-political context for the transition towards more sustainable, resilient, diverse, and just food systems.

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Section: From Commons To Commoningmentioning

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What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire

Devillers

2023

International Journal of the Commons

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“…605-606, emphasis added). These promoted commons might be actual commons that are "co-opted" for commodity production, or I argue, they may be "pseudo-commons" as well (Theesefeld, 2019). Pseudo-commons occur when institutions create "initiatives that use the notion of commons and a blueprint of a common-property regime in an artificial nutshell," but commoning relations do not actually function on the ground (Theesefeld, 2019, p. 346).…”

Section: Commoning Versus Pseudo-commoning and The Commons' Capitalist Stancementioning

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“…Drawing from the concept of capital fixes (De Angelis, 2013), pseudo-commons (Theesefeld, 2019), and Gibson-Graham et al's (2016) definition of commoning as a "relational process . .…”

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“…I then draw from the concepts of "pseudo-commons" (Theesefeld, 2019) and the "commons fix" (De Angelis, 2013) to propose "pseudo-commoning" as a useful analytic to the case of bee forage. Like commoning, pseudocommoning aims to collectively manage a resource through a set of protocols that encourage equitable resource sharing and communication.…”

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Commoning the bloom? Rethinking bee forage management in industrial agriculture

Durant

2021

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Managed and wild bee populations are declining around the world, in part due to lost access to bee forage (i.e., nectar and pollen). As bee forage diminishes, the remaining acres become sites of contestation between beekeepers, land managers, ecologists, and regulatory agencies. This article applies a commons framing to contextualize these conflicts and attempts to resolve them. Drawing from the concepts of commons and commoning, I argue that nectar and pollen are common-pool resources for pollinators, beekeepers, and land managers, currently managed through varied access arrangements such as informal usufruct rights and pseudo-commoning practices. Like commoning, pseudo-commoning aims to collectively manage a resource through a set of protocols that involve equitable resource sharing and communication. However, because pseudo-commons are implemented from the top down, for example, from institutional actors driven in part by economic interests, they often do not result in widespread adoption on the ground. Through a case in California almond orchards, I make two additional arguments. First, because beekeepers are largely migratory and do not own the land they need for production, their subordinate position to landowners can challenge equitable bee forage management. Second, while floral pseudo-commons may aim to counter the negative effects of industrialized agricultural production (e.g., by limiting pesticide exposure to honey bees), they also provide a “fix” that supports and expands industrial agriculture by stabilizing managed bee pollination services. Increasing reliance on managed bee pollination services can thus disincentivize transitions to sustainable food production, such as adopting diversified practices that would support native bee populations and reduce the need for managed honey bees on farms.

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Conceptualising the commons as a relational triad: Lessons from the grant of use cooperative housing model in Barcelona

Río

2022

Geoforum

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Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons

Cited by 21 publications

References 583 publications

What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire

What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire

Commoning the bloom? Rethinking bee forage management in industrial agriculture

Conceptualising the commons as a relational triad: Lessons from the grant of use cooperative housing model in Barcelona

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