A tale of two commons. Some preliminary hypotheses on the long-term development of the commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 11th-19th centuries

Pemán, Miguel Laborda; Moor, Tine De

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“…As a consequence of this gradual shift, questions such as what the driving forces were behind the expansion of commons in western Europe from the late medieval period onwards, how communities were able to maintain these collective organizations, or which adjustments and changes they witnessed throughout time are becoming increasingly attractive for economic, agrarian and environmental historians. To this date, however, the number of works addressing these questions has remained relatively small (Van Zanden 1999;De Moor et al 2002;Casari 2007;De Moor 2009;Rodgers et al 2011;Laborda and De Moor 2013;De Moor 2015;Grüne et al 2015). With our project, our aim has been to push these recent efforts among historians forward -initiating a line of research which systematically sheds light on the internal workings of what until recent times has largely remained the 'black box' of historical commons.…”

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Ruling the Commons. Introducing a new methodology for the analysis of historical commons

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Despite significant progress in recent years, the evolution of commons over the long run remains an under-explored area. During the last years an international team of historians has worked under the umbrella of the Common Rules Project in order to design and test a new methodology aimed at advancing our knowledge on the dynamics of institutions for collective action -in particular commons. This project aims to contribute to the current debates in three different fronts. Theoretically, it explicitly draws the attention to change and adaptation in the commons -contrasting with more static analyses. Empirically, it highlights the value of historical records as a rich source of information for longitudinal analysis of the functioning of commons. Methodologically, it develops a systematic way of analyzing and comparing commons' regulations across regions and time, setting a number of variables that have been defined on the basis of the "most common denominators" in commons' regulations across countries and time periods. In this paper we introduce the project, describe our sources and methodology, and present the preliminary results of our analysis.

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Ruling the Commons. Introducing a new methodology for the analysis of historical commons

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“…When unified resources flows of several people consolidate into a common flow, the fluctuations of the total flow less affect individuals, increasing their resilience in different situations [8]. For this reason, social systems formed by many people with a similar source of core resources and focused on their stable obtaining, are most important for its participants.…”

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Social Systems: Structure, Development and Application of the Fibonacci Sequence

Brazhnikov¹

2021

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This article presents description of social structures such as, for example, states, in the context of their consideration as systems. Moreover, it seeks to develop K. Marx's model in terms of systematic approach, as well as to justify the application of the Fibonacci sequence to systems in general and, in particular, to social systems. The description covers a wide range of issues, ranging from the assertion of the basic principle of living systems as patterns in resources flows to description of functions of various aspects of states and their economics in terms of objective needs of such structures. In addition, this article justifies synergetic effect based on proposed model, and the way this effect is applied to state systems. Moreover, it includes the description of main changes of socio-economic formations throughout the history as a natural development of social systems, including possible modern stages. The fundamental tool of this description is description of essence of the mechanism of property rights and its formation options. The differences of two extreme directions of such development are also described on the basis of the objective factor of resource provision. Special attention is given to the concept of surplus value as a feature of social production systems.

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“…The liberal reform of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been responsible for the enclosures of common lands in Europe-e.g. the privatization or nationalization (Pemán and De Moor, 2013) and for the commodification of common lands' resourcese.g. via the expansion of the belief that nature, knowledge, or other resources that were key for the material and cultural survival of communities can and should be trade for capital accumulation (Caffentzis and Federici, 2014;Capra and Mattei, 2015;Fournier, 2013).…”

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Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities

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The most critical question for sustainability research is how to facilitate transformative change. Yet, the academic scope of historical commons' research is limited to institutional design and environmental sustainability. In this paper we argue for a transformative research agenda for historical commons focused on the study of processes building humans and more-than-human communities. We start by reviewing three commons schools, namely the mainstream and critical institutionalism and the community economies collective, and assess how these relate to sustainability and to theories on agency, community and change. We then define a research agenda taking a political and critical ontology of the community economies collective, and a phenomenological epistemology of critical institutionalism. We follow by characterising the underlying practices building humans and more-than human communities by showing three ideal stages of commoning found in our empirical cases in the north-western Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). Finally, we end by presenting a guiding framework for analysing processes of building communities in historical commons. In conclusion, we encourage further exploration of underlying practices that widen humans' interdependency and inter-being and call for action-research projects and experimental methods that promote transformative encounters between humans and nature. Our framework is a first attempt to inspire researchers of historical commons to actively engage in unravelling the full potential of historical commons as sites of transformation.

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A tale of two commons. Some preliminary hypotheses on the long-term development of the commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 11th-19th centuries

Cited by 18 publications

References 47 publications

Ruling the Commons. Introducing a new methodology for the analysis of historical commons

Ruling the Commons. Introducing a new methodology for the analysis of historical commons

Social Systems: Structure, Development and Application of the Fibonacci Sequence

Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities

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