No. 19 - 10 Jahres Ausgabe, Lech & Zürs

Allmeinde commongrounds
and Kunstraum Zug
© Foto: Walter Niedermayr
engl. / With the increasing threat to shared
natural resources the significance of the term
commons in the public discourse has grown
strongly. In the Alps, the term “Allme(i)nde”
has been known for centuries as the living
practice of a cooperative appropriation of
natural resources like water, pastures, and
forest by way of a defined group that makes
and invigilates its own rules. Nowadays the
commons are once more considered a contemporary
model of “politics beyond market and
state” (Silke Helfrich).
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