The Commons in a Glocal World

4A definition of the commons, between human rights, resistance, and social change

Elisabetta Cangelosi

Introduction

The debate about the commons is evolving and growing at global and local level. This growth is uneven and involves a variety of disciplines (Goldman 1998; Dietz, Dolsak, Ostrom and Stern 2001; Dolšak and Ostrom 2003; Linebaugh 2008; Hardt and Negri 2009; De Angelis 2010; Federici 2010; Mattei 2011; Bollier and Helfrich 2012; Marella 2012; Dardot and Laval 2014; De Angelis 2014; De Angelis 2017). Content, focus and participants of the most recent conferences of the International Association for the Study of the Commons offer a very clear overview of such an evolution. Interesting elements emerge: an increasing participation of ...