Public-common partnerships, autogestion, and the right to the city

Milburn, Keir; Russell, B. B.

doi:10.4324/9780367822835-13

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“…Rather than facilitating and expanding the reach of corporate power and financial capital, the PCP can enable new forms of democratic possibility through the centrifugal expansion of community ownership and direct participation in governance. The enrichment of democratic subjectivity among the community, along with the accumulation of community-owned capital, creates a basis on which further commoning projects can be built (Milburn and Russell, 2021). PCPs can, in other words, create ‘self-expanding circuit[s] of radical democratic self-governance’ (Exner et al., 2021, p. 15).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Public-Common Partnership (PCP) offers a way to radically rethink the role of the state and its relationship with commons (Milburn and Russell, 2021). The PCP stands in contrast to the Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which can be critically understood as often resulting in elite-driven policy making (Béal, 2012; McCann, 2001), or using the state to create new markets for private capital accumulation.…”

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Toward the commoning of governance

Leitheiser

Trell

Horlings

et al. 2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Conventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the only valid possibilities in both theory and practice, this stale dilemma covers up a real multitude of actually existing alternative approaches to governance practiced in civil society. State/Market approaches are identical in the way that they construct a ‘spectator’ role for communities, who are left to choose between their preferred set of rules and norms developed elsewhere. The concept of commoning governance offers an opportunity to break free of this stalemate. It creates a new role for citizens and their communities as ‘sparring partners’; who although they operate within the limits of current State/Market institutions, create new norms and rules against and beyond them. In the paper, we first expand on our understanding of commoning governance: re-designing governance arrangements to serve the common good. That is here understood in terms of (radical) democracy, solidarity and sustainable ecological relationships. Second, we illustrate how commoning efforts on the ground contribute to the reclaiming of the democratic imaginary as a political arena by zooming in to a case study of the three cities involved in civic-led network of German Food Policy Councils. Finally, we reflect on the empirical barriers that communities of commoning endure, and call on policymakers, planners and scholars to interrogate their own normative understandings of citizenship and democracy, and begin to recognize theoretical and latent possibilities by enabling commoning with new or re-designed institutions of governance.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Toward the commoning of governance

Leitheiser

Trell

Horlings

et al. 2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…The shape of British municipal statecraft is shifting with this austerity‐spun philanthropic turn. If 1980s municipal radicalism fought for an alternative to the market‐driven public‐private partnership, then its reinvention today contracts the public‐ common partnership: ‘an alternative institutional design that moves us beyond the overly simplistic binary of market/state’ towards management of the commons through partnerships with commoners' associations (Milburn & Russell, 2019; Russell, Milburn, & Heron, 2022). Such associations may be informal commoning groups or take the organisational form of a cooperative or social enterprise—legally incorporated as a Community Benefit Society (BenCom) or Community Interest Company (CIC), respectively.…”

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“…Working closely with Real Ideas, and targeting the deprived dockside districts of Devonport and Stonehouse, the Empowering Places consortium has incubated community businesses and anchors of which some have become catalysts alongside Real Ideas, including the high‐profile Nudge Community Builders. Nudge was established in Stonehouse in 2017 to restore empty buildings for diverse community uses, including hosting pop‐ups and start‐ups, and celebrated as an exemplary public‐common partnership, a concept developed with the support of OSF‐funded CommonWealth (Milburn & Russell, 2019; Russell, Milburn, & Heron, 2022). In drawing on crowd‐sourced, philanthropic and public funding—from Power to Change amongst other charities; patient capital loans and grants from the council's Social Enterprise Investment Fund; and municipal match‐funding of community shares through the council's Crowdfund Plymouth initiative—Nudge might more accurately be described as a public‐common‐ philanthropic partnership.…”

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Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?

Thompson

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Three decades ago, partly in response to the Tory takedown of 'British municipal radicalism ' (Cooper, 2017), Allan Cochrane (1993) asked the pointed question: Whatever Happened to Local Government? While Cochrane's 'wistful' account lamented, and anticipated, the attrition to local government's public service responsibilities-from housing and schools to libraries, parks and leisure centres-his question also gestured at the loss of radical ambition and creative intervention in a realm historically beyond local government's remit but into which it had strayed: economic development and indus-

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“…The most well-articulated framework, which this paper uses, is the "public-commons partnership" (PCP) (Fig. 2) [25,26]. Another ecosystem proposal is the "ecosystem of commons-based peer production" [27,28].…”

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Botswana Blood Commons

Sacks

Galabo

Nthubu

2022

Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2

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What role can the commons play in improving citizen trust in healthcare services? We explore this question in the context of the chronic blood supply shortage in Botswana, where the Indigenous kgotla village governance system operates alongside the republican state. To address barriers to trust in the blood services ecosystem, we review the public-commons partnership model as a commons ecosystem model that could support participatory design of blood services between the kgotla and state. We apply this model to the ecosystem mapping tool used in the Jigsaw framework, a method previously used in Botswana to support ecosystem visualization, to prompt state consideration of this alternative public-commons partnership as a solution to the blood supply shortage. We also explore the re-visualized ecosystem as a pluriversal commons, where the kgotla and state cosmologies must interact to solve the collective action challenge of blood supply.

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Public-common partnerships, autogestion, and the right to the city

Cited by 9 publications

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Toward the commoning of governance

Toward the commoning of governance

Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?

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