Over the last two decades, scholars have witnessed a remarkable wave of new commons. They have mo... more Over the last two decades, scholars have witnessed a remarkable wave of new commons. They have mostly been conceptualized either as pragmatic management of common-pool resources or as a radical political idea and praxis. We assert that enriching the literature with a Polanyian perspective allows to go beyond the binary conception and affords a better understanding of the societal relevance of commons. Conceptualizing commons as part of a countermovement aimed at the gradual decommodification and re-embedding of markets, results in a more dynamic view on how commons function in the interplay of the social force of capitalism and the forces that limit or reverse it. This also shows the relevance of commons as interstitial alternative practices. The framework is illustrated by a case study on commons established in Belgium in 2015–2016. It shows that instead of focussing primarily on contentious action, commoners concentrate on establishing alternatives that prefigure the desired futur...
D'apres certains economistes, et non des moindres, l'avenir est a une troisieme voie entr... more D'apres certains economistes, et non des moindres, l'avenir est a une troisieme voie entre la vieille social-democratie et le neoliberalisme. En 1999, une declaration commune de T. Blair et de G. Schroder fut l'objet de debats et de repositionnements politiques. Le principal theoricien de la troisieme voie est Anthony Giddens, conseiller de T. Blair. En Belgique, Frank Vandenbroucke apporte une contribution originale. Les vieilles categories sont obsoletes. Quel est le role de l'Etat ? Y a-t-il encore une gauche et une droite? Interviennent encore la globalisation, les nouvelles formes de travail, le chomage, la speculation monetaire, l'ecologie. Mais la troisieme voie souffre de lacunes evidentes, singulierement devant les rapports Nord-Sud
Over the last two decades, scholars have witnessed a remarkable wave of new commons. They have mo... more Over the last two decades, scholars have witnessed a remarkable wave of new commons. They have mostly been conceptualized either as pragmatic management of common-pool resources or as a radical political idea and praxis. We assert that enriching the literature with a Polanyian perspective allows to go beyond the binary conception and affords a better understanding of the societal relevance of commons. Conceptualizing commons as part of a countermovement aimed at the gradual decommodification and re-embedding of markets, results in a more dynamic view on how commons function in the interplay of the social force of capitalism and the forces that limit or reverse it. This also shows the relevance of commons as interstitial alternative practices. The framework is illustrated by a case study on commons established in Belgium in 2015–2016. It shows that instead of focussing primarily on contentious action, commoners concentrate on establishing alternatives that prefigure the desired futur...
D'apres certains economistes, et non des moindres, l'avenir est a une troisieme voie entr... more D'apres certains economistes, et non des moindres, l'avenir est a une troisieme voie entre la vieille social-democratie et le neoliberalisme. En 1999, une declaration commune de T. Blair et de G. Schroder fut l'objet de debats et de repositionnements politiques. Le principal theoricien de la troisieme voie est Anthony Giddens, conseiller de T. Blair. En Belgique, Frank Vandenbroucke apporte une contribution originale. Les vieilles categories sont obsoletes. Quel est le role de l'Etat ? Y a-t-il encore une gauche et une droite? Interviennent encore la globalisation, les nouvelles formes de travail, le chomage, la speculation monetaire, l'ecologie. Mais la troisieme voie souffre de lacunes evidentes, singulierement devant les rapports Nord-Sud
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