From Land Ownership to Landed Commons Social Innovation in the Commoning of Scarce Land Resources
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Edited by Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, KU Leuven, Pieter Van den Broeck, Professor of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, P&D Research Unit, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Greece and Liana Simmons, Political Scientist and Food Activist, Italy<i>‘This magisterial work will surely become a landmark in the scholarship of landed commons. It deftly synthesizes a vast literature while opening up fresh vistas of understanding, balancing general lessons with complicated details. The result is a rich, broad-spectrum portrait of commons that includes a history of land ownership, contemporary case studies, and attention to the micro-social dynamics of commoning, as well as critical lessons (and limitations) of Ostrom’s commons research, anarchism, political ecology, and Marxism. Highly recommended!’</i>
- David Bollier, Schumacher Center for a New Economics, US,
<i>‘How is the </i>commons<i> of the Commons related to the commons of the </i>common good<i>? Focusing on the Landed Commons, this book provides enlightening and original answers to this fundamental question. In addition to a helpful critical discussion of concepts and literature, and a positive proposal for a new direction combining justification theory, interactionism and social psychology, the book is particularly noteworthy for the in-depth fieldwork carried out through action research for social innovation in a wide range of commoning domains. By building bridges between analytical frameworks and tried-and-tested practices of commoning, the book offers an indispensable guide for those interested not only in theoretical debates and analytical frameworks, but also in how best to collectively conduct and govern a commoning activity.’</i>
- Laurent Thévenot, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, France,
<i>‘At a time when the contradiction between land stewardship and land speculation in public policy is at the centre of heated debates, this book offers both key international historical insights as well as Belgium-based case studies to all those interested in changing the historical course of land ownership and in building landed Commons through an institutionalist pathway.’</i>
- Chiara Tornaghi, Coventry University, UK,
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.