[P2P-F] new essay: What is the future of the commons movement? What are some of the pathways for a commons transition.

Tue May 19 10:55:53 CEST 2020

via jose ramos

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What is the future of the commons movement? What are some of the pathways
for a commons transition. How do we formulate an alternative political
economy and livelihoods out of the ashes of neoliberalism and the covid-19
pandemic? And how do we understand all of this in the broader planetary
context of the anthropocene? Our book chapter "Awakening to an Ecology of
the Commons" (Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos) attempts to provide answers to
the following questions.

As any nuanced thinker will tell you, there are no easy answers in this
world. However given the massive upheavals we are experiencing, it is
incumbent on us to push forward through sense-making and connecting with
our values and our visions. in this book chapter we offer three scenarios
for the futures of the commons movement and social change. We argue that we
need to build a meta language for commoning - a "protocol commons". This
will allow us to weave a broader movement across many different actors that
are working for commons in their own way (even when they are not
calling it commons
or commoning). We call this an "ecology of the commons".

The book chapter is part of an ambitious anthology by Anne Grear and David
Bollier titled "The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist
Ruins"  (Punctum Books, Santa Barbara)

It is an ambitious anthology that brings together contributions from Sam
Adelman, David Bollier, Primavera De Filippi, Vito De Lucia, Richard Falk,
Anna Grear, Paul B. Hartzog, Andreas Karitzis, Xavier Labayssiere, and Maywa
Montenegro de Wit, as well as including our work. In their own words:

"It is clear that the multiple, entangled crises produced by neoliberal
capitalism cannot be resolved by existing political and legal institutions,
which are imploding under the weight of their own contradictions. Present
and future needs can be met by systems that go beyond the market and state.
With experiments and struggle, a growing pluriverse of commoners from
Europe and the US to the Global South and cyberspace are demonstrating some
fundamentally new ways of thinking, being and acting.... We learn about
seed-sharing in agriculture, blockchain technologies for networked
collaboration, cosmolocal peer production of houses and vehicles, creative
hacks on law, and new ways of thinking and enacting a rich, collaborative
future. This surge of creativity is propelled by the social practices of
commoning new modes of life for creating and sharing wealth in fair-minded,
ecologically respectful ways."

the anthology will be available in September 2020 through Punctum Books. a
preprint of the book chapter can be seen here.

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/

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Dr. José M. Ramos
pub: https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos
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