The Wealth of the Commons: A world beyond market & state

I'm currently stewing on the idea of creating /c/commoning but in the meantime I'm choosing to post this here. Not directly anarchist but I do feel like understanding how ancient effective management of commons is and that re-commoning is something that should be emphasized in anarchist praxis

We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of “progress” and governance. In short: how they’ve built their commons.

In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources – often known as “market enclosures” – while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale – but most of all, it’s about commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. It’s about common people doing uncommon things.

NOTE: while there are links to buy the book on that site, I want to emphasize that the entire thing is available to read on the site under the Contents tab; as well as the link to the free epub version for download