The concept of the commons
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https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v14i1.4150Keywords:
Commons, Colaboration, Neoliberalism, Human and Social Science, Contemporary TheoryAbstract
With the publication in portuguese of Commonwealth, written by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2016), The common: essay on revolution in the 21st Century, by Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot, and Caliban and the witch, de Silvia Federici, the theme of the commons returned to gain attention of researchers of the human and social sciences in Brazil. In this article, we recover an effort made by Sergio Amadeu da Silveira in 2007 when he published the article “The concept of commons in cyberculture”, and introduce different authors who are working with the concept of the commons, contributing to describe and locate part of the bibliography available on the subject, much of which is still unavailable in Portuguese. In the article, we deal with the work of authors such as Garret Hardin, Elinor Ostrom, David Bollier, Laval and Dardot, Hardt and Negri, Silvia Federici, Michel Bauwens, Silke Helfrich, Imre Simon, Miguel Said Vieira, Joan Subirats and César Rendueles, Yochai Benkler, Rafael Zanatta and Ugo Mattei, among others.
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