From Land Ownership to Landed Commons

Edited by Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, KU Leuven, Pieter Van den Broeck, Professor of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, P&D Research Unit, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Greece and Liana Simmons, Political Scientist and Food Activist, Italy

• Contents:Foreword xivBob JessopAcknowledgements xviiList of abbreviations xx1 Introducing Landed Commons: Building SolidarityRelations for the Common Right to Land 1Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, BernhardLeubolt, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Liana Simmons2 Historical Origins of Property Regimes and LandedCommons: Classical Thoughts and Common Practices 21Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Pieter Van den Broeck,Frank Moulaert3 From Marxism to Contemporary Institutionalisms inLanded Commons 48Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Ide Hiergens, Pieter Vanden Broeck, Frank Moulaert4 Beyond Dualities In Understanding The Commons:Debates And Practices 84Frank Moulaert, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, IdeHiergens, Liana Simmons5 Social Relations in Commoning: Towards a SociallyInnovative Perspective to Action Research in BuildingLanded Commons 129Frank Moulaert, Liana Simmons, Constanza Parra6 From the ThŽorie Des CitŽs to the Practice of Landed Commons 158Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van denBroeck, Constanza Parra, Frank Moulaert7 ThŽorie des CitŽs+ in Case Study Analysis 186Frank Moulaert, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van denBroeck, Sofia Saavedra Bruno8 Building a Landed Commons: Reclaiming space throughslow paths 204Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Matthias Bussels, ConstanzaParra, Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck9 Building a Landed Commons: Collective Practices forOrganic Food Production 229Annette Kuhk, Annelies Beyens, Kaat Segers10 Building a Successful Landed Commons in ContemporaryFlanders: Collectief Goed’s Housing Model 256Nele Verdonck, Marie Mistiaen, Guy Vloebergh11 Commoning as Action Research: Concluding Observations 283Frank Moulaert, Liana Simmons, Pavlos-MarinosDelladetsimas, Pieter Van den BroeckAppendix 1 Tips and Tricks on How to Handle Day-To-DayAction Research 297Frank Moulaert, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den Broeck, SofiaSaavedra Bruno

‘This magisterial work will surely become a landmark in the scholarship of landed commons. It deftly synthesizes a vast literature while opening up fresh vistas of understanding, balancing general lessons with complicated details. The result is a rich, broad-spectrum portrait of commons that includes a history of land ownership, contemporary case studies, and attention to the micro-social dynamics of commoning, as well as critical lessons (and limitations) of Ostrom’s commons research, anarchism, political ecology, and Marxism. Highly recommended!’