The commons, property, and ownership

Bibliographic Data

ID2616415
AuthorsKatharina Bodirsky (0000-0001-7921-9934, University of Konstanz [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume2018
Issue81
Pages121-130
Publication date2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFocaal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fcl.2018.810109
OpenAlexW2809951965
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited33

In response to the theme section on commoning in the December 2017 issue of Focaal, this article raises further questions for discussion and proposes an analytics of the commons that grasps it through the lens of property regimes. The key question concerns how we might best envision the relation of the commons/ commoning to the state, capitalism, and commonality in a way that does justice to both a broadly Leftist politics of the commons and an analysis of really existing commons that might deviate from this ideal. The conceptual lens of property regimes proposed here focuses empirical attention on relations of production and the organization of membership and ownership in the commons without including a particular politics into the definition as such

Capitalism · Commons · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Property rights · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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