Debt obligations strained but rarely dissolved collective commons practices.
Evidence
How are we going to pay 64 thousand with interest in 10 years, planting corn and beans, if I can’t even eat for a year? (Settlement 6, man, 50–60 years old) … Despite financial pressures, these settlements (apart from Settlement 6) continued their practices of collective work and governance, maintaining the commons they had created. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 79
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 79
- XREF: connects to: Economically marginal commons persist by carrying symbolic and memorial weight. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 93