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The commonisation-decommonisation framework: History, power and politics in creating viable commons 
Convenors:
Prateep Nayak (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Admire Mseba (University of Southern California)
Vipul Singh (University of Delhi)
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Chairs:
Vipul Singh (University of Delhi)
Prateep Nayak (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Formats:
Panel
Streams:
Navigating Conflict, Governance, and Activism
Location:
Linnanmaa Campus, SÄ112
Sessions:
Tuesday 20 August, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Helsinki

Short Abstract:

The panel delves into the question of how to make commons dynamic by emphasizing the role of history, power and politics in articulating the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, and highlights commonisation and decommonisation to understand commons as a process.

Long Abstract:

This panel responds to the question of how to make commons dynamic by emphasizing the role of history, power and politics in articulating the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales. It highlights the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy, practice and theory building that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future. Here, ‘commonisation’ is understood as a process through which a resource gets converted into a joint or communal use regime under commons institutions that deal with excludability and subtractability, and ‘decommonisation’ refers to a process through which such a resource loses these essential characteristics. Both commonisation and decommonisation are continuous and potentially two-way because they are influenced by the prevalent social, cultural, economic, ecological and political history and traditions of the area, and the influences of several internal and external drivers. Focusing on commonisation and decommonisation as analytical tools useful to examine and respond to changes in the commons, the panel explores how environmental and natural resources are commonised and decommonised through the influence of multi-level internal and external drivers that are systemic and rooted in the history, power dynamics and politics across disparate geographical and temporal contexts. The papers in this panel will focus on how understanding commonisation and decommonisation processes relies on a proper understanding of the history that enables successful commons for the future.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 20 August, 2024, -
Session 2 Tuesday 20 August, 2024, -
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