Surviving commons shift from economic to social and symbolic resources over time.
Evidence
In the second part we describe how the commons have outlasted earlier production systems and transformed from primarily economic resources (productive commons) to social (associational commons) and symbolic resources (symbolic commons) for the village. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 13
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Supports the commons-evolution thread in ‘On Sacrifice’ and the infrastructure essay — how institutions outlive the production systems that spawned them, taking on ceremonial and identity functions.
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 13
- XREF: connects to: Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 10; Commons persist through symbolic meaning even after losing economic purpose. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 75; Collective action sustains commons for symbolic as much as material ends. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 76 (+7 more)
Related
- Economically marginal commons persist by carrying symbolic and memorial weight. (similarity 0.90)
- Persisting commons are sustained more by identity and wellbeing than by economic yield. (similarity 0.89)
- Collective action sustains commons for symbolic as much as material ends. (similarity 0.88)
- Commons persist through symbolic meaning even after losing economic purpose. (similarity 0.88)
- Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights. (similarity 0.88)
- Local commons adapt and persist through contestation and shifting state relations (similarity 0.85)
- Enduring commons persist through flexible adaptation, not frozen tradition. (similarity 0.84)
- Commons are best understood as dynamic processes of commoning, not static resources. (similarity 0.83)
- Commons are reinvented historical practices that villagers legitimize through analogies to past traditions. (similarity 0.82)
- Commons types differ in how open or kin-bound their membership is. (similarity 0.81)
- Scholarship on commons divides between rational-choice design principles and contextual co-evolution accounts. (similarity 0.81)
- Emil Sandström — Commoning in the periphery – The role of the commons for understanding rural continuities and change (similarity 0.79)
- Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm — Commoning in the periphery – The role of the commons for understanding rural continuities and change (similarity 0.79)
- Contemporary common goods extend beyond natural resources into digitally and urbanly produced domains. (similarity 0.78)
- Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Commons persist through symbolic meaning even after losing economic purpose.
#corroborates(0.92) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 75 - Economically marginal commons persist by carrying symbolic and memorial weight.
#corroborates(0.90) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 93 - Collective action sustains commons for symbolic as much as material ends.
#corroborates(0.85) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 76