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In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer traces the development of one of the United States's oldest intentional communities from its founding in 1937 to the present. Lockyer examines how community members have developed flexible sets of cooperative processes for the stewardship of the land and other resources.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction and History
Introduction: Intentional Community, Commons, and Utopia
Chapter 1: Arthur Morgan, Utopianism, and the Founding of Celo Community
Chapter 2: Cultivating Intentional Community Commons: A History of Celo Community
Chapter 3: A Commons Community Today: Celo through the Lens of Transformative Utopianism
Part II: Design Principles for a Commons Community
Chapter 4: Common Land and Community Membership: Celo's Social and Spatial Boundaries
Chapter 5: Creating Our Own Commons Rules
Chapter 6: Governing Ourselves and Our Commons
Chapter 7: Keeping Each Other Honest
Chapter 8: When One of Us is Not Honest
Chapter 9: Dealing with Disputes on the Commons
Chapter 10: Gaining Official Recognition
Chapter 11: The Commons and Larger Democratic Systems
Chapter 12: Beyond the Design Principles: Other Factors that Make Celo Work
Conclusion: Cultivating Commons Subjects in and Beyond Intentional Community
About the author
Joshua Lockyer is associate professor of anthropology at Arkansas Tech University.
Summary
In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua P. Lockyer traces the development of one of the United States’s oldest intentional communities from its founding in 1937 to the present. Lockyer examines how community members have developed flexible sets of cooperative processes for the stewardship of the land and other resources.
