Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture.

Evidence

Commoning is doing with others, and this collective doing relies on and reproduces specific social relations and group practices; it is, in Archer’s words (1995), emergent. Through commoning, commoners’ subjectivities are also (re)produced. Commoners’ visions and aims shape their practices and social relations within the commons, either intentionally or unconsciously. Importantly, the Circle of Commoning recognises the importance of a range of practices, beyond the formal business of managing the commons, including norms and social relations (De Angelis, 2017; Whaley, 2018). The emphasis on practice serves the framework’s interest in nuanced analysis: social practices reflect implicit schemes of knowledge, making them always cultural practices; social practices are embodied and carried out through material objects, making them also material. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 70

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what distinguishes commoning as a practice-centred concept: it is emergent collective doing spanning norms, social relations, implicit knowledge and material embodiment, not merely formal management of shared resources.
• DEEPTHINKING: Not top-5% — this is solid theoretical framing but fairly standard social-practice theory articulation; marking as strong definitional content rather than paradigm-shifting.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 70
• XREF: connects to: Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 17; Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 99; Commoning should be analysed through internal and external dynamics among subjectivities, visions and practices. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 6 (+8 more)

Related

• Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects. (similarity 0.93)
• Becoming a commoner, visions, and social practices shape each other cyclically (similarity 0.91)
• Commoning should be analysed through internal and external dynamics among subjectivities, visions and practices. (similarity 0.90)
• Commoning simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its practitioners (similarity 0.90)
• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. (similarity 0.89)
• Commoning communities vary with context and adapt over time. (similarity 0.86)
• Commoning transforms participants’ identities even as it embeds practices of power and difference (similarity 0.85)
• Commoner subjectivities emerge historically through practice rather than being fixed identities. (similarity 0.85)
• Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. (similarity 0.85)
• Members’ class and racial identities shape how communities do commoning. (similarity 0.83)
• Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods. (similarity 0.81)
• Commons governance proceeds through a fixed cycle of subjectivity, vision, and practice. (similarity 0.80)
• Collective ways of life depend on embodied practice, not just recognition of group identity. (similarity 0.80)
• Commoning is always contextual and admits no universal best practice. (similarity 0.80)
• Cooperatives reproduce themselves through shared governance and yield both material and immaterial common resources. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects. #corroborates (0.88) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 94
• Commoning transforms participants’ identities even as it embeds practices of power and difference #expands (0.85) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 15
• Collective ways of life depend on embodied practice, not just recognition of group identity. #corroborates (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 868