cooperative as a commons
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Cooperative as New Commons
Jukka PeltokoskiKSL-opintokeskus 2016slideshare.net/jukpelto
Historical moment for coops
• Economic and ecological crisis
• “New work”
• “Open innovation”
• New productive and ethical subjectivity
• Commons movement
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Photo: Emmanuelle Bourgue: “Home made paint sensory bags for our Coop kiddos - to learn how to draw shapes, write letters, numbers, etc…”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manueb
Precarity
• Temp workers, part timers, self-employed, entrepreneurs, unemployed...
• Economic uncertainty
• Productive networks
• New labor power
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Common(s)
• Shared resources, common wealth
• Commoning, commoner, common
• Communis, Communitas, Res Communes
• From common land to digital commons
• Commons based peer production
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Photo: By Djbclark (Own work), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APika--mit-fsilg-cooperative-housing--house-art-with-swirl-500px.png
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"General term for shared resources in which
each stakeholder has an equal interest.
Goods which are jointly developed and
maintained by a community and shared
according to community-defined rules."
- P2P Foundation
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"The salient characteristic of commons, as opposed to
property, is that no single person has exclusive control over
the use and disposition of any particular resource in the
commons. Instead, resources governed by commons may be
used or disposed of by anyone among some (more or less
well-defined) number of persons, under rules that may range
from 'anything goes' to quite crisply articulated formal rules
that are effectively enforced."
- Yohai Benkler
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The commons “refers to that vast range of
resources that people collectively own, but
which are rapidly being enclosed: privatized,
traded in the market, and abused.”
- David Bollier
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"Every commons has four characteristics: a
resource; the people who share it; the value
created through its production or
preservation; and the rules that govern it."
- Silke Helfrich
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"The word 'common' is the best starting point for the analysis. The common thing within a commons are the resources, which are used and cared for, are the goods resulting from joint activities, and are the social relationships emerging from acting together. These three aspects are so different for all commons, that no one could describe them in a reasonably complete manner."
- Stefan Meretz
Photo: Co-operative Commonwealth Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_Commonwealth_Federation
Photo: Geograph: The Co-op Museum, Rochdalehttp://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/42/34/423498_f2864b1f.jpg
Cooperative
• Already Marx...
• Cooperation as an imperative
• Precarity as a condition
• Cooperative as a struggle for autonomy
• From self-employed to self-employer
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“Open cooperativism”
New cooperative form:• Common good
• Multi-stakeholder model
• Commons production
• Global structures
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New economic order:• Citizens producing
• Cooperatives marketing
• Foundations supporting
Coop trends?
• Precariat’s worker cooperatives
• Cooperative co-working spaces
• Cooperative production companies
• Social and solidarity cooperatives
• Local rural-urban coops (food, travelling)
• Platform cooperatives?
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