commons-based economy
Coming back to this quote after reading the chapter – I'm curious what a commons-based economy would be like in relation to socio-political praxis [in or beyond or outside of occuaptional therapy]
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enclosures
If we were to build/develop an online space for sharing/gathering...like this annotation space, it can form an enclosure depending on who owns/governs the domain.
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committed to refus- ing labor hierarchies
If we're looking to embody this, what about research assistant contracts? Recognizing that university policies for RAs are in place to prevent grad students from being exploited.
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collective decision-making, through assem- blies and other forms of direct democracy.
Might be good to gather some examples of decision-making models
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global commons,’ a concept that presumes the existence of a global collectivity
Yeah, this is important as we're thinking about commoning/sharing across contexts. The notion of a global commons (or international praxis network) would ultimately reify who holds power
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“no community, no commons.”
This has methodological implications. If we recruit participants that are not a community, then we need to first build community?
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commoners’ entitlements and obligations should be
This is a really important point. I'm wondering if there are some existing resources out there as a basis to start developing this as we go?
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practice that appears inefficient to capitalist eyes.
This is really resonant - we see this also with respect to community-based research that is time consuming (aka inefficient). Even in terms of the systems that practitioners operate in – commoning will be valued if it increases efficiency in some way. Perhaps by necessity in the non-profit sector even.
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Peter Linebaugh) prefer to speak of ‘commoning,
Also read Linebaugh!
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To this end, keeping in mind Massimo De Angelis’s recommenda- tion against setting up ‘models’ of commons
Might be good to read De Angelis' work? They've been cited a few times. There is one in our reading table.
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classic example are the unenclosed Alpine meadows of Switzerland, which every summer become grazing fields for dairy cows, providing milk for the dairy industry.
I have never heard of this!
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‘Gated’ commoners share resources that would be difficult, expensive or impossible for any individual to purchase and enjoy. But these resources are jealously guarded from the use of ‘outsiders,’ especially those who would be unable to pay the often-hefty fee for buying into the common.
There's an interesting tension here...there is an insurgent aspect to a gated commons, or a means to survive within globalized and advanced capitalism. And also, it is still 'expensive' even if not monetarily...eg join the commons if you agree to share back with the commons...or maybe that isn't an example of a gated commons.
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commons ‘gated’ commons and argue they are quite compatible
Are communities of practice, eg through CAOT a form of gated commons?
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Communalism is also the jargon under which volunteer labor is recruited by governments.
Yes, also this!
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ccess to those who can pay
This isn't want they're talking about here - but I'm thinking about the [OT or other] participants we might recruit...or who might have a desire to common knowledge (more widely speaking or in a future project). What type of contexts can practitioners afford/have time to do it? Compensation helps, but the tension in terms of commodification of labour. What if a pool of funds were made available and each 'common' would decide on how to distribute? Our ethics boards typically ensure research participation is never 'pay' but more akin to a gift recognizing contribution.
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We have commons in fact that are co-opted by the state, others that are closed and ‘gated’ commons, and still others that are commodity- producing and ultimately controlled by the market.
There are risks, I think, in developing commons in a research context. Where the funding for developing this sort of thing is held by universities, and thereby researchers can exert control. And still, there is also safety in universities holding funds if there is a shared governance structure.
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stress how powerful is the demand coming from the grassroots for the creation of new forms of sociality and provision- ing under communal control and organized on the principle of social cooperation
I'm curious whether there is grassroots demand for new social forms and 'self-provisioning' of knowledge in health and social services (or OT). My guess is that our current social form, the mode of production, is so normalized that it isn't questioned.
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They are experiments in self- provisioning and the seeds of an alternative mode of production in the making.
Commoning as little experiments in self-provisioning. I love that.
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mutual aid
rise of this during Covid - became something commonly understood, whereas not as much before
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has a price tag or is patented and no effort is spared to ensure that companies have the right to enclose all the remaining open space on earth and force us to pay to gain access to it.
When meeting with folks at the university about options for licensing the praxis toolkit, they advised against creative commons. Commercialization and revenue generating options are preferred.
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Primitive, or better originary, accumulation is the strategy the capitalist class
Primative accumulation - where people who used to produce things (eg artisans) are turned into wage labourers. Academics pumping out papers while publishers make a killing. Commodification of peer support. Theories are credible when packaged up by researchers in universities. Are extractive research practices an example? I think so...
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struggle
Struggle as methodologically productive...struggle not as a thing or a state of being, but struggle as a doing or an activity.
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common land was still 3 percent of the total of the territory.7
What is the territory that we're thinking about – theory, knowledge, practices in [healthcare/social services/occupational therapy]? I wonder what a historical excavation might show in terms or where knowledge in our field has been held...in north america at least OT came out of the collision of the arts & crafts movement and pyschiatry (to oversimplify it).
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