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This category attempts some sense-making in the area of the Global Commons.
See our page on [[Global Commons]].


As the very definition of a Commons evolves and comes under scrutiny by more and more watchful eyes we are seeing the birth of new ideas and concepts that were previously applicable in local, regional, or sometimes even national settings re-contextualized and re-examined in the global context.
We are working on the key idea of a [[Fifth Magisterium of the Commons]].


As this is a subcategory of the Commons, you can use additional categories to add links to your articles. 


=Introductory resources=


== First Glance ==
* Paul Hartzog: [http://www.panarchy.com/Members/PaulBHartzog/Papers/Global%20Commons.pdf Defining the Global Commons]
* Governance for the Global Commons: Recognizing [[Planetary Boundaries]]. Setting objective limits for economic and policy trade-offs.


=Related Concepts=


What makes an initiative or other listing in this section Global?  The hope is that there will be further conversation about this topic!
* [[Common Wealth Trusts]]


The last 50 years has seen the beginnings of a myriad of conversations around how we sort and sift the interconnected whole that is the planet Earth.  Every method for systematically breaking down the whole of the planet into constituent parts seems a bit doomed to failure on some level, and at the same time humans are making extraordinary efforts to wrap their arms around the territory, the problems, and the solutions.


While the conversation is, in some ways, still in it's infancy, the solutions and institutions that are at the forefront do have a lot of interesting ideas, and some of them are digging into application by connecting producers, sovereigns, and consumers.
=Typology=


==Qualifications for P2P Approaches to the Global Commons==
Cadell Last:


What makes a Global Approach a P2P approach?  Is there a way to look at an approach that might help us to understand this question, and how we can use the information we find?
"Potential political forms of global institutions.


Inside this category you will find links to a number of different types of entities.  In some case you will find institutions working on the commons at an international level, as well as pages that look at specific aspects of P2P on a global scale.
Global institutions Definitions/examples


If you find a place to insert a page for your specific speciality then go right ahead, and be sure to add the category <pre><nowiki>[[Category:Global Commons]] </pre></nowiki> to your page.
(1) '''Neoliberal institutions''': Contemporary globalization is guided via neoliberal institutions that were originally created under patronage of United States of America, and
include structures like the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization which have formed/are forming a global
bureaucratic structure that is essentially anti-democratic,
 
* A) enabling monopoly control of an international finance system designed to protect
creditors,
* B) sublimating all human activity into market activity,
* C) creating barriers to access of basic necessities and
* D) failing to address issues of economy-ecology sustainability.
 
 
(2) '''Keynesian institutions''': One potential solution to the dominance of neoliberal institutions (1) would include a ‘Keynesian’ institutional construction project where a
global state, presumably with top-down mechanisms characteristic of nation-states at the planetary level, would form enabling the democratic
election of state officials, the regulation of global market activity, creation of a common monetary union, redistribution of income and wealth, and
the organization of international state projects related to social and ecological welfare.
 
 
(3) '''Commons institutions''': Another alternative potential solution to the dominance of neoliberal institutions (1) would be the creation of ‘commons institutions’, which,
instead of forming a ‘top-down’ global state bureaucracy (2), would include the creation of ‘bottom-up’ distributed multi-level organizational
forms that operated on A) various common property regimes (essentially striving for post-property regimes), B) functioned on principles of
universal access (post-monetary), and C) multiple context-specific egalitarian-democratic management organizations related to resources and
services that are inherently rival (i.e. scarce), and thus need management due to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. (Further exploration of the
potential nature of ‘commons institutions’, see: Table 3)
 
 
(4) '''Anarchism''' (no global institutional forms)
 
Yet another potential solution to the dominance of neoliberal institutions (1) would simply be to negate the entire notion of the need for
qualitatively novel large-scale political collectives (‘global institutions’in either a Keynesian or Commons form) (2, 3) and instead direct focus
towards the creation and management of locally self-organized egalitarian communities. However, such an approach leaves massive questions of
how to approach the real existence of neoliberal institutions, as well as how to approach planetary problems of the common sphere."
 
(https://cadelllast.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/last-c-2016-global-commons-in-the-global-brain.pdf)
 
 
=Key Resources=
 
==Key Articles==
 
* * Article: Stern, P. (2011). [[Design Principles for Global Commons]]: natural resources and emerging technologies. Int. J. Commons 5, 213–232. doi: 10.18352/ijc.305
 
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Latest revision as of 08:07, 17 August 2021

See our page on Global Commons.

We are working on the key idea of a Fifth Magisterium of the Commons.


Introductory resources

Related Concepts


Typology

Cadell Last:

"Potential political forms of global institutions.

Global institutions Definitions/examples

(1) Neoliberal institutions: Contemporary globalization is guided via neoliberal institutions that were originally created under patronage of United States of America, and include structures like the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization which have formed/are forming a global bureaucratic structure that is essentially anti-democratic,

  • A) enabling monopoly control of an international finance system designed to protect

creditors,

  • B) sublimating all human activity into market activity,
  • C) creating barriers to access of basic necessities and
  • D) failing to address issues of economy-ecology sustainability.


(2) Keynesian institutions: One potential solution to the dominance of neoliberal institutions (1) would include a ‘Keynesian’ institutional construction project where a global state, presumably with top-down mechanisms characteristic of nation-states at the planetary level, would form enabling the democratic election of state officials, the regulation of global market activity, creation of a common monetary union, redistribution of income and wealth, and the organization of international state projects related to social and ecological welfare.


(3) Commons institutions: Another alternative potential solution to the dominance of neoliberal institutions (1) would be the creation of ‘commons institutions’, which, instead of forming a ‘top-down’ global state bureaucracy (2), would include the creation of ‘bottom-up’ distributed multi-level organizational forms that operated on A) various common property regimes (essentially striving for post-property regimes), B) functioned on principles of universal access (post-monetary), and C) multiple context-specific egalitarian-democratic management organizations related to resources and services that are inherently rival (i.e. scarce), and thus need management due to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. (Further exploration of the potential nature of ‘commons institutions’, see: Table 3)


(4) Anarchism (no global institutional forms)

Yet another potential solution to the dominance of neoliberal institutions (1) would simply be to negate the entire notion of the need for qualitatively novel large-scale political collectives (‘global institutions’in either a Keynesian or Commons form) (2, 3) and instead direct focus towards the creation and management of locally self-organized egalitarian communities. However, such an approach leaves massive questions of how to approach the real existence of neoliberal institutions, as well as how to approach planetary problems of the common sphere."

(https://cadelllast.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/last-c-2016-global-commons-in-the-global-brain.pdf)


Key Resources

Key Articles

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