The Commons in a Glocal World

5Towards a new institutional political ecology

How to marry external effects, institutional change and the role of power and ideology in commons studies

Tobias Haller

Introduction

This conceptual chapter proposes to marry two very different approaches: On the one hand it looks at the political ecological (PE) analysis of divergent actors’ powers and interests in the governance and use of common-pool resources (CPRs). On the other hand, it tries to relate to the new institutionalism (NI) approach in social anthropology dealing with CPRs, showing how external and internal, as well as market driven, dynamics of a resource context lead to justification strategies and institution shopping (selection of rules and regulations) by the different actors ...