SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE OF COMMON-POOL RESOURCES: Context, Methods, and Politics
This paper presents a critical assessment of the field of common property. After discussing briefly the major findings and accomplishments of the scholarship on the commons, the paper pursues two strategies of critique. The first strategy of friendly critique accepts the basic assumptions of most wr...
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Published in | Annual review of anthropology Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 243 - 262 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
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ISSN | 0084-6570 1545-4290 |
DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093112 |
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Summary: | This paper presents a critical assessment of the field of common property.
After discussing briefly the major findings and accomplishments of the
scholarship on the commons, the paper pursues two strategies of critique. The
first strategy of friendly critique accepts the basic assumptions of most
writings on common property to show that scholars of commons have discovered
far more variables that potentially affect resource management than is possible
to analyze carefully. The paper identifies some potential means to address the
problem of too many variables. The second line of critique proceeds
differently. It asks how analyses of common property might change, and what
they need to consider, if they loosen assumptions about sovereign selves and
apolitical property rights institutions. My examination of these questions
concludes this review with an emphasis on the need to (
a
) attend more
carefully to processes of subject formation, and (
b
) investigate common
property arrangements and associated subject positions with greater historical
depth. |
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ISSN: | 0084-6570 1545-4290 |
DOI: | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093112 |