This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history of thought and practice of commoning of scarce land resources. Presenting a refreshing theoretical and historical perspective, it explores how social relations, ethics, and agencies have affected the building and development – but also the decline – of Landed Commons. Bringing together expert contributors from across the globe and investigating in depth three case studies, the book addresses how people have acquired or lost their rights to use land, the institutionalization processes that have shaped or destroyed these rights, and how Landed Commons can be built, developed, and sustained in a socially innovative way. Using concepts from the Théorie des Cités, it demonstrates how mutual aid-based action research can be seen as the way forward for communities to build and maintain equitable and sustainable human-land relations in Landed Commons.
Academics, researchers, and students in regulation and governance, politics and public policy, human geography, social work, law, and economics will benefit from this in-depth exploration of the human relevance of commoning in contemporary neo-liberal times. Commoning activists, government officials, and practitioners will equally find this to be an invaluable read.
Contents:
Foreword xiv
Bob Jessop
Acknowledgements xvii
List of abbreviations xx
1 Introducing Landed Commons: Building Solidarity
Relations for the Common Right to Land 1
Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, Bernhard
Leubolt, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Liana Simmons
2 Historical Origins of Property Regimes and Landed
Commons: Classical Thoughts and Common Practices 21
Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Pieter Van den Broeck,
Frank Moulaert
3 From Marxism to Contemporary Institutionalisms in
Landed Commons 48
Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Ide Hiergens, Pieter Van
den Broeck, Frank Moulaert
4 Beyond Dualities In Understanding The Commons:
Debates And Practices 84
Frank Moulaert, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Ide
Hiergens, Liana Simmons
5 Social Relations in Commoning: Towards a Socially
Innovative Perspective to Action Research in Building
Landed Commons 129
Frank Moulaert, Liana Simmons, Constanza Parra
6 From the ThŽorie Des CitŽs to the Practice of Landed Commons 158
Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den
Broeck, Constanza Parra, Frank Moulaert
7 ThŽorie des CitŽs+ in Case Study Analysis 186
Frank Moulaert, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den
Broeck, Sofia Saavedra Bruno
8 Building a Landed Commons: Reclaiming space through
slow paths 204
Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Matthias Bussels, Constanza
Parra, Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck
9 Building a Landed Commons: Collective Practices for
Organic Food Production 229
Annette Kuhk, Annelies Beyens, Kaat Segers
10 Building a Successful Landed Commons in Contemporary
Flanders: Collectief Goed’s Housing Model 256
Nele Verdonck, Marie Mistiaen, Guy Vloebergh
11 Commoning as Action Research: Concluding Observations 283
Frank Moulaert, Liana Simmons, Pavlos-Marinos
Delladetsimas, Pieter Van den Broeck
Appendix 1 Tips and Tricks on How to Handle Day-To-Day
Action Research 297
Frank Moulaert, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den Broeck, Sofia
Saavedra Bruno
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