Selected Readings and Audio/Video Resources

Bollier, David and Helfrich, Silke. Free, Fair and Alive. The Insurgent Power of The Commons. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2019.
Bollier, David and Helfrich, Silke, eds. The Wealth of the Commons: A World beyond State and Market, Amherst, MA: Levellers Press, 2012.
Bollier, David. “Sharing Society: The Impact of Collaborative Collective Action on the Transformation of Contemporary Society.” International Conference • Sharing Society • The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies • May 23-24, 2019. •https://youtu.be/h7fah4QgFzQ
”The City as a Commons”. Smart City Expo World Changes. December 14, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3itmhDuem8
“What is the Commons.” iRights.info. November 30, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKrcQ30518 ”Commons Course Syllabus.” 2010-2019. http://www.bollier.org/commons-resources/commons-course-syllabus
“People, Planet, Power: toward a New social Settlement.” International Journal of social Quality, Vol.5. No 1, Summer 2015.
Coote, Anna. Building a New Social Commons. The People, The Commons and The Public Realm. London, UK: The New Economic Foundation, 2017 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/building-new-social-commons-people-commons-public-realm/2017/05/19
Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science, New Series, Vol. 162, No. 3859, American Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 1243-1248’, Dec. 13, 1968.
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Helfrich, Silke. Elements of a New Agenda. The Commons as Common Paradigm for Social Movements and Beyond. (version 1.0). World Social Forum, January 2010.
commonsstrategies.org/the-commons-as-a-common-paradigm-for-social-movements-and-beyond/
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. Terminology of the Commons. Leuphana Digital School. May 31, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga3DSGQ2Kgw
_. Basics of the Commons. Leuphana Digital School. May 31, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lni-4rA-RE
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. Framing the Commons. Interview produced for the Remix the Commons project at the Berlin International Commons Conference. December 15, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEx3TxPuGjg
Marshall, Thomas H. “Citizenship and Social Class.” In Jeff Manza and Michael Sauder, eds. (2009). Inequality in Society. New York: W. W. Norton and Co, 1950
McQuaig, Linda (2019). The Sport & Prey of Capitalists. How the Rich are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth. Toronto, ON: Dundurn.
Menzies, Heather. Re-Claiming the Commons for the Common Good. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society, 2014.
Mercado, Jocelyn. “Buen Vivir: A New Era of Great Social Change.” Pachamama Alliance. December 2017. https://blog.pachamama.org/buen-vivir-new-era-great-social-change
Mestrum, Francine. The Social Commons. Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies. Brussels: Global Social Justice Network, 2015. www.socialcommons.eu
_. The Commons, Social Justice and Systemic Change. Global Social Justice. February 2016. http://www.globalsocialjustice.eu/index.php/research-84309/1139-the-commons-social-justice-and-systemic-change
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Promoting the Social Commons. Global Social Justice. June 2013.
https://www.transform-network.net/en/blog/article/promoting-the-social-commons/
_. The Social Dimensions of Globalisation. Asia Europe People’s Forum. May 18, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Oa6Ei9YzE
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The New Social Paradigm. Asia Europe People’s Forum. June 21, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98F9mdNg5V8
Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 8th printing 2019.
Standing, Guy. Plunder of the Commons. A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth. United Kingdom: Pelican Books, 2019.
__. Plunder of the Commons. An Interview. Social Europe. September 30, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZCJBUAVhSk