... and society. This article aims at analyzing the meanings of common and commons at stake in this debate. After a critical assessment of Elinor Ostrom’s contribution, the analysis will focus on the presentation of the theories of common as singular, distinguishing two currents of thought: the political...

...Kalpana Kannabiran Extrapolating from the ideas of Elinor Ostrom and scholars of the commons, the conceptualization of the Constitution as a commons opens the Constitution out to radical, insurgent readings that redefine belonging and ownership—it is no longer the property of state legislatures...

... and the ownership paradigm more generally: from exclusive ownership to inclusive ownership in the sense that Elinor Ostrom and the philosophy of the common have managed to set out in recent years. Theory of the Firm and Definition of Ownership As we know, mainstream economic theory considers the firm as a solution...

... some significant similarities with the land commons that the Nobel Prize winner for economics Elinor Ostrom pro- posed between the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The same applies to the so-called primitive communist or communitarian modes of production 700 The South...

... and policy. Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Distinguished Professor of International and Comparative Law at UC Hastings, and a professor of civil law at the University of Turin. He is a longtime commons activist and scholar. Mattei was awarded the Elinor Ostrom Award in 2018 and an honorary doc...

... academics and politicians. The second guiding publication is Elinor Ostrom s Governing the Com- mons, published in 1990 as the Cold War was winding down. It constituted the first full-fledged critique of The Tragedy of the Commons, of both Har- din s underlying assumptions and his conclusions. Ostrom...

... (legally) and structure (politically) the horizon- tal relationship of goods producers to one another as well as the common ownership entitlements over the goods produced. Elinor Ostrom and oth- ers (Ostrom 1990) have clearly demonstrated that “commons” as a gover- nance regime can provide the most...

..., energy, digital spheres, and other resources produced through cooperative labor (Hardt and Negri 2009). Commons are often managed utilizing Elinor Ostrom s (2015) eight principles rejecting privatization and capital accumulation and reproduced through collective practices of commoning and mutual...

...), and is deeply involved in establishing and running schools in Nepal, jointly with South Korean social groups. I have asked myself three questions about these worker-centered inter- national solidarity activities, drawing on Elinor Ostrom s design principles of stable local common pool resource management: 1...

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... Manifesto . New York : Oxford University Press . Nietzsche Friedrich . 1973 . Beyond Good and Evil . Translated by Hollingdale R. J. London : Penguin . Ostrom Elinor . 1990 . Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action . Cambridge : Cambridge...

... University; and the World Meteorological Organization. Future Earth emerged out of a visioning process sponsored by the ICSU (2010) and the ISSC. It was initiated in 2009 with a “task team” that comprised Johan Rockström, Walter Reid, Heide Hackmann, Khotso Mokhele, Elinor Ostrom...

..., and Katherine J. Strandburg. 2009. The Univer- sity as Constructed Cultural Commons. Washington University Journal of Law and Pol- icy 30, no. 1: 365 403. Marella, Maria Rosaria. 2017. The Commons as a Legal Concept. Law and Critique 28, no. 1: 61 86. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons...

... of economist Elinor Ostrom—winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences—which gave special attention to the existence of common goods and spaces that do not inevitably lead to the overexploitation of resources and the loss and erosion of that patrimony (Subirats 2011). In Latin America...