Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights.

Evidence

By conceptualizing and framing the commons as contextually grounded processes this article explores how one Swedish inland community – Ängersjö village – has shaped and maintained various types of commons over time in relation to social, political and historical trends of society at large. … Seen from this perspective, commons are not only juridical and economic resources2 but also important social resources that bind people together in a place for a common purpose. … The commons can be seen as a socioecological adhesive that contributes to constitute communities. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 10

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘commoning’ as process-based practice rather than static property relation, reframing commons as community-constituting social adhesives.
• XREF: Connects to Elinor Ostrom’s commons scholarship and to Bourdieu’s symbolic construction of social groups via shared practices. — connects to: Surviving commons shift from economic to social and symbolic resources over time. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 13; Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 151; 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 (+17 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 10

Related

• Commons are best understood as dynamic processes of commoning, not static resources. (similarity 0.90)
• Surviving commons shift from economic to social and symbolic resources over time. (similarity 0.88)
• Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods. (similarity 0.86)
• Commons types differ in how open or kin-bound their membership is. (similarity 0.85)
• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. (similarity 0.85)
• Persisting commons are sustained more by identity and wellbeing than by economic yield. (similarity 0.85)
• Contemporary common goods extend beyond natural resources into digitally and urbanly produced domains. (similarity 0.84)
• Local commons adapt and persist through contestation and shifting state relations (similarity 0.83)
• Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. (similarity 0.83)
• Economically marginal commons persist by carrying symbolic and memorial weight. (similarity 0.83)
• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. (similarity 0.82)
• Commons persist through symbolic meaning even after losing economic purpose. (similarity 0.82)
• Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation. (similarity 0.81)
• In post-industrial rural economies, people, not natural resources, are the scarce resource. (similarity 0.81)
• Collective action sustains commons for symbolic as much as material ends. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Surviving commons shift from economic to social and symbolic resources over time. #expands (0.88) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 13
• Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation. #corroborates (0.85) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 201
• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. #corroborates (0.82) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 151
• Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods. #expands (0.78) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 17
• Institutionalized space appropriation produces territorially bounded social solidarity #expands (0.73) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1395