Community-scale commons experiments can scale outward into large networks.

Evidence

At the local level, it involves forms of community-based enterprises which support collective entrepreneurship as a larger movement. According to Bollier and Helfrich (2012, pp. xv–xviii), commons represent a “generative paradigm” that fosters experimenting with new forms of organizing that are originally promoted at the community level but can expand to large networks. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 173

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘generative paradigm’ idea — local experiments scaling into networks — is a ready lens for an essay on bottom-up versus top-down infrastructure.
• SHARE: Worth sending to a colleague who works on community land trusts or cooperative networks, where the local-to-network scaling question is exactly the open problem.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 173
• XREF: connects to: Dense civic networks enable trust, reciprocity and collective action. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 17; Common goods nest within larger communities across nested scales — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 53; Community energy cooperatives across Europe form a decentralized renewable-energy commons challenging utility markets. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 150 (+3 more)

Related

• Digital tools enable new decentralized forms of commons peer production. (similarity 0.82)
• Common goods nest within larger communities across nested scales (similarity 0.82)
• Commons initiatives emerge as entrepreneurial community movements responding to member marginalization. (similarity 0.81)
• Digital voluntary communities can produce collective goods unmet by states and markets. (similarity 0.80)
• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. (similarity 0.80)
• Communities can act collectively as a single entrepreneur and enterprise. (similarity 0.80)
• Commoning communities vary with context and adapt over time. (similarity 0.79)
• Contemporary common goods extend beyond natural resources into digitally and urbanly produced domains. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Digital tools enable new decentralized forms of commons peer production. #expands (0.80) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 193
• Small communities enforce generalized reciprocity rather than one-on-one exchange #expands (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 821
• Commoning communities vary with context and adapt over time. #qualifies (0.75) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 95