| Contents |
Introduction: Intentional community, commons, and utopia -- Arthur Morgan, utopianism, and the founding of Celo community -- Cultivating intentional community commons : a history of Celo community -- A commons community today : Celo through the lens of transformative utopianism -- Common land and community membership : Celo's social and spatial boundaries -- Creating our own commons rules -- Governing ourselves and our commons -- Keeping each other honest -- When one of us is not honest -- Dealing with disputes on the commons -- Gaining official recognition -- The commons and larger democratic systems -- Beyond the design principles : other factors that make Celo work -- Conclusion: Cultivating commons subjects in and beyond intentional community. |
| Abstract |
"In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua P. Lockyer traces the development of one of the United States's oldest intentional communities from its founding in 1937 to the present. Lockyer examines how community members have developed flexible sets of cooperative processes for the stewardship of the land and other resources"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lockyer, Joshua. Seeing like a commons Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781498592895 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021010231 |
| ISBN | 9781498592888 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1498592880 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
