Cooperatives reproduce themselves through shared governance and yield both material and immaterial common resources.

Evidence

Commoning produces both material and immaterial resources (such as knowledge) (Nieto-Romero et al., 2019). The production of material resources via commoning can be applied to cooperatives and similar collective arrangements. Some previous scholarship has conceptualized cooperatives as sites of commoning, where the cooperative itself is reproduced through ongoing relational processes of governance and production (Akbulut, 2020; de Peuter & Dyer- Witheford, 2010; Fisher & Nading, 2021; Guttmann, 2021). As de Peuter & Dyer-Witheford (2010, p. 45) state, such production processes create a form of “commonwealth,” managed as a shared resource. Critical scholars emphasize that in cooperatives, the concept of commoning often embodies transformative social objectives that transcend market logics, positioning these institutions as sites of resistance to profit-driven organizational forms and as vehicles for alternative economic practices (Akbulut, 2020; Euler, 2018; Guttmann, 2021). — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 14

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contrast with profit-driven market logics discussed across economic sociology and to the reader’s interest in alternatives to market organization. — connects to: Common-pool resources are governed as bundles of separable property rights. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 62; Communities can act collectively as a single entrepreneur and enterprise. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 71; Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 99 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies how ‘commoning’ maps onto cooperatives as a governance practice rather than merely a shared pool of goods.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 14

Related

• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. (similarity 0.82)
• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. (similarity 0.82)
• Communities can act collectively as a single entrepreneur and enterprise. (similarity 0.81)
• Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation. (similarity 0.80)
• Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods. (similarity 0.80)
• Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. (similarity 0.79)
• Commoning transforms participants’ identities even as it embeds practices of power and difference (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. #expands (0.85) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 70