Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
Free, Fair & Alive is a foundational re-thinking of the commons, the self-organized social systems that human beings have used for millennia to meet their needs. Free, Fair and Alive present a compelling vision of a future that can actually work. From fisheries and forests to alternative currencies and open source everything, people are increasingly using “commoning” to emancipate themselves from a predatory market/state system and take charge of their lives. Jargon-free and full of colorful stories and diverse examples, this book will help readers recognize commoning as a vision that can help take us beyond the dead-end binaries of left-right, individual-collective, and state-market that has almost brought the world to its knees. Free, Fair and Alive is a work of social imagination and political hope. As humanity drifts into a dangerous new world of climate breakdown, Peak Oil, and political instability, this book dares to imagine how countless acts of commoning can build an insurgent new culture and political economy. It draws on the authors’ extensive travels in the world of commoning, from the community forests of India and urban commons of Italy, to platform cooperatives arising on the Internet and neighborhood nursing in the Netherlands.
I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive
Source: David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
Functional Sector: Infrastructure, Relationships, Economics
Date Added: 2024-12-10
 | Category: Commons |
 | Format: Book |
 | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive |