Full Description
In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last eighty years, deliberately built Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Joshua Lockyer highlights the potential for intentional communities like Celo to raise awareness of global interconnectivity and structural inequalities, enabling people and communities to become better stewards and citizens of both local landscapes and global commons.
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
