Ciudades en Red como Plataformas Resilientes para la Transición Post-capitalista. Versión pdf Por Kevin Carson. Artículo original: Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition. Traducción al español de Confoederatio Think Tank. Versión en español publicada también en Confoederatio Think Tank y xancoop.noblog.org. Vivimos en un momento de crisis terminal para las instituciones…

Reti cittadine come piattaforma resiliente per la transizione post-capitalista Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 20 gennaio 2018 con il titolo Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Leggi o scarica una copia integrale dello studio Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition Viviamo in un’epoca…

    View or download a PDF copy of Kevin Carson’s full C4SS Study: Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition   Español, Municipalismo libertario: Ciudades en red como plataformas resilientes para la transición post-capitalista We live in a time of terminal crisis for centralized institutions of all kinds, including the two most…

Reaffirming Occupancy-and-Use Further Clarification in Response to Robert Kirchner Robert Kirchner is in the unusual position, in a symposium on occupancy-and-use land tenure, of defending it more uncompromisingly than my kick-off essay in favor of it. He emphasizes that he is “somewhat more doctrinaire” than me, and contrasts his position to my own of taking…

Kevin Carson’s Rejoinder to Derek Wall. I appreciate the thoughtful tone of Derek’s response, and I’m certainly gratified by whatever role I may have played in inspiring him to take up brewing beer. And having been strongly influenced by the work of Elinor Ostrom myself, I was pleased to learn that an Ostrom scholar was…

One proposal that periodically resurfaces in debates on managing endangered species is so-called “privatization.” Predictably, it has emerged once again in the context of Cecil the Lion’s death at the hands of a rich safari-hunting dentist. Of course proposals for “privatization” generally come from the Right, and what they mean by it is reorganizing some…

Center for a Stateless Society No. 17 (Winter-Spring 2014), download this study PDF Introduction: The Primacy of Everyday Life David Graeber chose, as the epigraph to his book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, a quote from Pyotr Kropotkin’s article on Anarchism for the Encyclopedia Britannica. In it Kropotkin stated that, in an anarchist society, harmony…

Governance, Agency and Autonomy: Anarchist Themes in the Work of Elinor Ostrom [PDF] This paper is intended as one in a series, to be read along with my previous one on James C. Scott, on anarchist and decentralist thinkers whose affection for the particularity of local, human-scale institutions overrides any doctrinaire ideological labels. The Governance…

Ostrom begins by noting the problem of natural resource depletion—what she calls “common pool resources”—and then goes on to survey three largely complementary (“closely related concepts”) major theories that attempt to explain “the many problems that individuals face when attempting to achieve collective benefits”: Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons,” the prisoner’s dilemma, and Olson’s “logic…

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Ostrom’s work was absolutely integral to my own development as both an academic, and a member of humanity.