Commons Video Contest Winners Announced!
The Commons Video Contest was for 3-minute videos aiming to communicate commons research to a general public. The contest was held at the 1st IASC Virtual Conference. Funding for the contest prizes was provided by the Foundation for Scientific Symbiosis. We received 20 videos and these are the winners: Winner – Prize $3000 The Commons Explained […]
World Commons Week – Succesfull kick-off Conference ‘Celebrating Commons Scholarship’
The Celebrating Commons Scholarship Conference at Georgetown Law, which was co-hosted by Sheila Foster (Professor, Georgetown Law and Public Policy), Brigham Daniels (Professor, BYU Law), and the International Association for the Study of the Commons, with the support of doctoral fellow Chrystie Flournoy Swiney (JD/ PhD (ABD)), from October 5-6, 2018 was a great success! […]
Videos now available from the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons!!!
We have earlier written about the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons held in Oldenburg, Germany on June 6-8, 2018. We also promised that once available we would share some of the speeches that the organizers managed to record on a video. This was our first such experiment, and as you will see, recording […]
New publication: Kaiāulu by Mehana Blaich Vaughan
[do_widget id=text-12] Building on two decades of interviews with more than sixty Hawaiian elders, leaders, and fishermen and women, Kaiāulu by Mehana Blaich Vaughan shares their stories of enduring community efforts to perpetuate kuleana (‘rights and responsibilities’). An important contribution to scholarship, Kaiāulu is also a deeply personal tribute to a community based not on […]
Private property repurposed as common-pool resource – Esty St. Community Garden in Ithaca, NY
[Contributed by Lee Yoke Lee, Youth Garden Facilitator Esty St. Community Garden] An empty plot of land holds many possibilities. GreenStar Community Project, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to food justice in Tompkins County, saw the sunny plot as an opportunity for a community garden. The plot belongs to the CFCU Community Credit Union, a […]
Launch of LabGov Georgetown
[do_widget id=text-12] The researchers involved in LabGov Georgetown (among whom Sheila Foster, IASC Council Member), are happy to announce the establishment of this new laboratory for governance of the commons. In ever-changing urban contexts worldwide, LabGov explores the idea that social and economic generation in cities can benefit from an “urban commons” framework in which […]