Practicing the commons: IASC 2017 Biennial Conference

07/01/2024

Last call for social enterprise enthusiasts who want to dive deeper! If you are you passionate about social enterprises and want to know all about them, and hope to become a researcher in this field: then this is your chance to apply for a PhD-position at our department, deadline 15th of January! We welcome interested candidates with a master’s degree in business studies, management studies, sociology, economics, psychology, or a related discipline. Social enterprises, in various forms, form one of the topics for which you can apply. You can apply for a fully funded PhD-position in Sustainability and Management with our department Business-Society Management (B-SM), Erasmus University: https://www.erim.eur.nl/doctoral-programme/phd-in-management/phd-vacancies/phd-in-sustainability-and-management/

The Business-Society Management department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate looking to study a topic in the area of sustainability and management. For this position, you will be able to freely choose your own research topic, withi...

06/12/2021

I am very proud to share this video our research team Social Enterprise and Institutions for Collective Action made in celebration of the World Commons Week 2021! We made it to the finals of the video contest organized by the The International Association for the Study of the Commons!
In this short video, PhD-student Damion Bunders explains the SICADE-framework our research group uses to study the long-term development of Institutions for Collective Action. Do you like this video? Then cast a vote! (provided you are an IASC member or a member of the Ostrom Workshop). Only one week left to vote (until the 12th of December 2021)!

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Institutions for Collective Action Research Team, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NetherlandsWorld Commons Week 2021 Teaching the Commons...

02/03/2021

PhD-position available on 'Historical analysis of the development of fishing collectivities as ICAs (Europe)'!!! at the ICA-research team at Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University)

16/12/2020

You will be involved in the UNICA-project, which stands for “Building a UNified theory for the development and resilience of Institutions for Collective Action for Europe in the past millennium” (see http://www.collective-action.info/unica for the description of the project) as researcher and co...

20/01/2020

Details Start: January 23 - 06:00 pm End: January 8 - 07:30 pm Event Category: Featured, Lectures and Seminars

20/02/2019

Gender inequality is still a worldwide problem. Why is it so important to fix it? With historian Dr Sarah Carmichael.

06/11/2018

Professors Mansee Bal Bhargava (Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India) and Tine de Moor (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) welcome contributions to the panel they want to propose for IASC2019 in Peru. The panel invites papers in both the sections with a larger goal towards acknowledging the crucial role that gender balance has in both commons management practices and studies. The panel hopes to receive a large response from contributors and depending on the submission the panel will be re-organised.

Contributions should be submitted via https://www.iasc2019.org/abstractby November 15. Make sure to include ID 147 as first keyword.
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Panel abstract

Gender in relation to the management of commons can be looked at through two broad lenses. First the gender balance in commons management practices and second the gender balance in the commons management studies. Whereas the former is extensively studied by commons scholars, the latter intrigues us because of our observation during the Asia Region Biennial IASC Meeting on “Redefining Diversity and Dynamism of Natural Resource Management in Asia” in July 2018 at AIT, Bangkok Thailand that the community of commons scholars seems to be more gender balanced than many other disciplines. In both cases, we need to pose interlinked inquiries including the sophism and fallacies of looking at gender balance as a notion in commons management.

Some queries about the gender balance in commons practices include: how much of the success of the commons can be attributed to the gender balance and gender equality? does a common need to address gender balance in order to be successful? are commons management practices inherently more gender balanced or do local conditions influence the gender dynamics. Do commons have an effect on gender balance in access to and in appropriation of collective resources? Does the position of gender within the local action situation influence distinctly the commons management?

Some queries in the gender balance in commons studies include: Is interdisciplinarity in the commons more practiced by a specific gender? Given the gender disparity in academia around the world: are the commons reflecting a priority and pattern in advantage of gender balance; how important is the gender role model for an academic community? Or has the influence of Elinor Ostrom as a role model been pivotal in stimulating a gender balance in the community of commons-scholars? Are interdisciplinary studies anyhow more used to deal with differences including gender? Are commons a preferred field of study by the women? Does the gender balance within the IASC lead to different parts of attention in the domain? Can the IASC be considered as a best practice in the formation of gender balanced research? What can IASC do to ensure continuing the gender balance tradition and stimulate other academic communities to follow its example?

12/10/2018

EXTENDED DEADLINE - NOVEMBER 15

Due to the attention is receiving right now, the Conference Organizers at PUCP, Universidad de los Andes, and International Association for the Study of the Commons have decided to extend the deadline for abstracts to November 15! Do submit your abstract as soon as possible via https://www.iasc2019.org/abstract/.

You can even submit a draft; you will be able to change the abstract until the deadline of November 15

04/07/2018

The IASC2017 Conference Organizers wish their successors in Lima and Bogota all the best! Hope to see you in LIma next year!!

Lima, Peru, July 1-5, 2019

06/06/2018

SCOOP, a research and training center dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of sustainable cooperation as a key feature of resilient societies, is

06/06/2018

Last week we officially launched FOCI, Future of Citizen-based Initiatives, a hub at Utrecht University! We intend to connect science to society,

17/04/2018

Deadline for abstracts Georgetown University conference on "Celebrating Commons Scholarship", the kick off of the extended until May 1! Visit https://www.worldcommonsweek.org/ or download call via https://tinyurl.com/wcw-cfa