• What makes a commons successful?
• What are the processes that lead to the co-option of a successful commons?
• How can the co-option of a commons be prevented?

Rethinking the Commons – session 6 literature:

1. Vandana Shiva – Earth Democracy: Beyond Dead Democracy and Killing Economies
2. Silvia Federici – Feminism and the politics of the common in an era of primitive accumulation
3. Roel Griffioen – How the artistic breeding ground became a surrogate for real urban development
4. David Harvey – The Creation of the Urban Commons
5. Guido van Eijck & Saskia Naafs – Helaas, u heeft getekend

in other sessions:

• OCTOBER 22: Defining the commons, commoning the definitions
• NOVEMBER 5: Primary Education
• NOVEMBER 19: La Via Campesina: Specificities of Commoning Practices and transnational organising
• DECEMBER 3: Alternative currencies: the Masters Tools
• DECEMBER 17: Protecting the commons from co-optation