commons
“Associative Environmentality: The Revival of Forest Commons in the Romanian Carpathians”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Monica Vasile.
“Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake”
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being.
Locust Infestations and Marginalized Communities in Colonial Western India in the Nineteenth Century
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 12
“Gender and the Commons: Water Management in Trans-Himalayan Spiti Valley, India”
In this article, Ranjini Murali, Ajay Bijoor, and Charudutt Mishra highlight the role of women in the governance of the commons and point to the nuanced and variable roles found within this gender group.
“Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons”
In this article, Harini Nagendra, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, and Rucha Ghate celebrate Narpat S. Jodha and revisit his work on the commons in India.
La vita tra i giganti: tradurre l’ecologia nella storia attraverso gli studi sulla montagna
Claudio de Majo mostra come la nozione di beni comuni, spesso analizzata da una prospettiva economica, possa anche essere interpretata in connessione ai cicli ecologici delle montagne della Sila in Italia e della Serra Gaucha in Brasile.
Life Among the Giants: Translating Ecology into History through Mountain Studies
Claudio de Majo argues that the notion of the commons, often seen as an economically motivated notion, could also be seen in relation to metabolic cycles, both in the mountains of Sila in Italy and in the uplands of the Serra Gaucha in southern Brazil.
“Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans”
Research on determinants of collective action in the commons generally focuses on interest-group heterogeneity, implicitly assuming that groups perceive the same problems but have different priorities. This paper changes the focus to the role played by perceptions themselves.