Excellent! I just wrote a paper on the same general theme and submitted the draft to C4SS. I wish I'd read this before I finished the draft. As it is I quote material from the P2PF quite a bit.
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > my reflections, with Vasilis Niaros, on the experience, which we wrote in > the summer, manuscript at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/10EprOpoIimqipGpBBBxLKhjEe6xqLNhoHz3SVGL6PYE/edit# > > for others who might be interested: > > Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions > > > By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros > > Contents > > Executive Summary 2 > > 1. The Centrality of Urban Commons in the Social-Ecological Transition 7 > > 1.1. Understanding the global conjuncture in which urban commons emerge 8 > > 1.1.1. Placing the re-emergence of urban commons in a ‘material’ historical > context 8 > > 1.1.2. The political conjuncture for the urban commons as locus for societal > change 12 > > 1.1.3. The role of the commons in reducing the material footprint of > humanity 13 > > 1.1.4. The challenge of meaningful work in the age of Trumpism 15 > > 1.2. The challenge of urban commons for the actors in the city 15 > > 1.2.1. Contributory democracy as a challenge to representative democracy 15 > > 1.2.2. The generative economy as a challenge to market power 16 > > 1.2.3. The commons as a challenge to traditional civil society organisations > 17 > > 2. Recent Developments in Urban Commons Transitions 18 > > 2.1. Grassroots initiatives in urban commons transitions 18 > > 2.1.1. Developments in the Global North 18 > > 2.1.2. Developments in the Global South 19 > > 2.1.3. The Assemblies of the Commons as the ‘voice’ of the commoners 20 > > 2.2. Commons-oriented municipal coalitions 22 > > 2.2.1. The rationale for our case study choices 22 > > 2.2.2. The city of Barcelona 23 > > 2.2.3. The city of Bologna 26 > > 2.2.4. The city of Naples 28 > > 2.2.5. The city of Milan 29 > > 2.2.6. The city of Frome 30 > > 2.2.7. The city of Ghent 31 > > 3. Towards a Coherent Institutional Design for Public-Commons Partnerships > 35 > > 3.1 The basic concepts underlying public-commons partnerships 35 > > 3.2 How is the Commons Transition Plan in Ghent related to the FLOK Society > Project in Ecuador? 37 > > 3.3 A three-pronged strategy for the commons transition 38 > > 3.4. An institutional design for the city administration 39 > > 3.5. Other proposals 41 > > 3.6. Towards a global infrastructure for commons-based provisioning 44 > > Acknowledgments 45 > > References 45 > > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net > Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by > making a donation. Thank you for your support. > https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > -- Kevin Carson Senior Fellow, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org "You have no authority that we are bound to respect" -- John Perry Barlow "We are legion. We never forgive. We never forget. Expect us" -- Anonymous Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by making a donation. Thank you for your support. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
