Seeing Like a Commons

Joshua Lockyer

doi:10.5771/9781498592895

Summary

In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last eighty years, deliberately built Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Joshua Lockyer highlights the potential for intentional communities like Celo to raise awareness of global interconnectivity and structural inequalities, enabling people and communities to become better stewards and citizens of both local landscapes and global commons.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-9288-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-9289-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 260
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Aims of the Book No access
  2. Overview of the Book No access
  3. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Commons and Commoning No access
  2. Intentional Communities: Design for the Commons No access
  3. Communities, Commons, and Utopianism No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Arthur Morgan: Utopian, Cultural Critic, and Small Community Advocate No access
  2. Note No access
3. 1. Celo as Experimental Cooperative Community: Utopian Responses to the Great Depression No access
  2. Utopian Visions and Preliminary Struggles No access
  3. Quakers as Cultural Critics: Pacifists Help Build Celo Community No access
  4. The 1940s and 1950s: A Commons Community Takes Shape No access
  5. Exodus and Disillusionment No access
  6. Back-to-the-Land Utopianism Revitalizes Celo Community No access
  7. Celo Community Since the 1970s: Balancing on a Commons No access
  8. Notes No access
4. 1. Conclusion No access
1. 1. Celo’s Spatial Boundaries No access
  2. Celo Community as a Land Trust No access
  3. Celo’s Social Boundaries No access
2. 1. Local Rules for Local Conditions No access
  2. Costs and Benefits of Community Membership No access
3. Chapter 6: Governing Ourselves and Our Commons No access
4. Chapter 7: Keeping Each Other Honest No access
5. Chapter 8: When One of Us Is Not Honest No access
6. Chapter 9: Dealing with Disputes on the Commons No access
7. Chapter 10: Gaining Official Recognition No access
8. Chapter 11: The Commons and Larger Democratic Systems No access
9. Chapter 12: Beyond the Design Principles: Other Factors That Make Celo Work No access
10. Conclusion: Cultivating Commons Subjects in and Beyond Intentional Community No access
References No access Pages 243 - 252
Index No access Pages 253 - 258
About the Author No access Pages 259 - 260