https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-emerging-ownership-revolution/2012/08/27 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:56:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-emerging-ownership-revolution/2012/08/27/comment-page-1#comment-492905 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:03:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=25894#comment-492905 I find it interesting that you focus on the subtitle of the book and not the title: Owning the Future. My guess is that the idea of treating the future as controlled by owners is a bit much. I think this book needs a more critical analysis. As I read Elinor Ostrom, for example,she is not talking about some kind of ownership of the commons, but citizens governing the commons. Kelly, on the other hand, sees the commons as a type of ownership. I think there remains a difference between an economy based on ownership, even co-ownership, and one based on civic membership. Citizens, of course, will design different ways of governing the commons, and in some cases, different types of ownership will be chosen. To choose ownership without a civic conversation among members of the civic seems to keep us in an economics of property rather than moving toward an economics of provision.

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