New commons govern shared resources without pre-existing rules or formal institutional arrangements.

Evidence

Beyond traditional common-pool resources, in the last few years, scholars have expanded the concept to include “new commons” (Hess 2008). These encompass neighborhood or urban commons, knowledge commons, health commons or cultural commons among others. They are novel types of shared resources that have emerged in addressing environmental and social problems fostered by heterogeneous groups and communities in different geographies. These communities are different from traditional collective action communities and aim to achieve participatory management and share the provision, distribution and ownership of new collective goods. They enhance new forms of collective action but without “pre-existing rules or clear institutional arrangements” (Hess 2008, p. 2). — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 65

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and defines the ‘new commons’ extension of Ostrom’s framework to urban, knowledge, and cultural shared resources.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how do new commons achieve governance and coordination in the absence of pre-existing rules or clear institutions? What substitutes for the structure Ostrom presupposed?
• ADDENDUM: Resonates with ‘Grafting & Growth’ in that both examine collective self-organization around shared resources absent centralized authority.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 65
• XREF: connects to: Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 69; Dispersing state power across independent governance centers protects liberty without over-complicating rules. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 55; Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 96 (+2 more)

Related

• Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority. (similarity 0.85)
• Contemporary common goods extend beyond natural resources into digitally and urbanly produced domains. (similarity 0.81)
• Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals (similarity 0.81)
• Commons are best understood as dynamic processes of commoning, not static resources. (similarity 0.79)
• Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods. (similarity 0.78)
• Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights. (similarity 0.78)
• The commons are unowned and require no money to access. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals #corroborates (0.90) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 96
• Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority. #corroborates (0.85) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 69
• Dispersing state power across independent governance centers protects liberty without over-complicating rules. #qualifies (0.72) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 55