Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition

Auteur

David Bollier is an American activist and scholar who studies the commons as a new paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He has been Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (USA) since 2016, and frequently collaborates with an international network of brilliant irregulars. He blogs at Bollier.org, hosts the podcast Frontiers of Commoning, and has written ten books on the commons, including The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking, Patterns of Commoning, The Wealth of the Commons, and, with Silke Helfrich, Free, Fair and Alive. Bollier lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Résumé
From relocalized food to open-source learning and beyond, millions of commoners worldwide are reinventing a timeless paradigm the commons. Completely updated, Think Like a Commoner is a popular introduction to the growing global movement building practical, autonomous alternatives to the predatory Market/State order.

Contenu

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Rediscovery of the Commons

Part I: Enclosure, Dispossession and the Denial of Commoning
Chapter 2: The Tyranny of the "Tragedy" Myth
Chapter 3: Enclosures of Nature
Chapter 4: All that is Shared Becomes a Market Commodity

Part II: Commons as Generative Living Systems
Chapter 5: Many Galaxies of Commons
Chapter 6: The Eclipsed History of the Commons
Chapter 7: The Commons as a Relational Organism
Chapter 8: Local, Vernacular and Alive
Chapter 9: Digital Rebels in the Big Tech Imperium

Part III: Expanding the Commonsverse
Chapter 10: Relationalized Property and Finance
Chapter 11: Reimagining State Power
Conclusion: The Future of the Commons

The Commons, Short and Sweet
The Logic of the Commons and the Market
The Triad of Commoning
Further Reading
Websites Concerned with Commons & Commoning
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author