#Commons and Contradictions: The #Political_Ecology of Elinor #Ostrom – #ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology
Ostrom and her institutional economist collegues’ works are necessary to think a political ecology of the commons :
Ostrom was not on the traditional left and didn’t research how capitalism, imperialism and allied structural forces shaped our society and environment. Indeed, we know that rather than commons failing because of lack of cooperation, they were often simply stolen and enclosed. Nonetheless, her detailed and open work provides huge intellectual stimulation and practical guidance to creating solutions that are democratic, diverse, equal and ecological. Finally, I would argue that politics, perhaps especially ecological politics, is about intervention and praxis, and in her defence of the commons, she made a very powerful intervention against all those who would argue, like Garrett Hardin, that the commoners should have their commons taken from them.
▻https://entitleblog.org/2017/09/20/commons-and-contradictions-the-political-ecology-of-elinor-ostrom
#enclosure #tragedy_of_the_commons #community_based_mangement #design_principles #García_López
