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De Moor, Tine --- "Afterword" [2018] ELECD 1607; in Cogolati, Samuel; Wouters, Jan (eds), "The Commons and a New Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 335

Book Title: The Commons and a New Global Governance

Editor(s): Cogolati, Samuel; Wouters, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788118507

Section Title: Afterword

Author(s): De Moor, Tine

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Afterword Tine De Moor What this book adds to the currently thriving field of commons-studies is first and foremost its explicit recognition of various approaches to commons as objects of study and practices of governance. Until approximately 2005, the study of commons was based nearly exclusively on extensive empirical, analysis-based research, with many theoretical `spin-offs' based on that research and often in line with Ostrom's fundamental work, and delivered by researchers from a very wide range of disciplines, from history, sociology and law to natural resource management and biodiversity students. Over the past decade we have, however, seen the emergence of a more normative approach to commons, which is closely knit to more ideological interpretations, and the implications thereof in practice. The latter builds on current citizens' movements but also revives older sentiments about collective ownership, management and use of resources. And confronts the world of commons-researchers with a need to consider more deeply so far at times neglected factors, such as power-relationships, fair distribution of goods, and the wider societal implications of the choice for a particular type of resource governance. Though a broader, multifaceted approach should be applauded and demonstrates that the field of commons-studies is permeating all corners of academic research and even beyond, this book also reminds us that there is still a relatively wide gap between various approaches to commons as governance models, regardless of the disciplines those approaches are linked to. In fact, even though this book ...