Frank Moulaert, Pieter van den Broeck, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas & Liana Simmons (2024)
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Extract: “The analysis is done by use of an operationalized version of the French pragmatist ‘Théorie des Cités’ (TdC) (Boltanski and Thévenot, 1991) that we named the ‘Théorie des Cités plus’ (TdC+), which together with the Grand Principles of the Landed Commons (GPLCs) we embed in an Action Research (AR) trajectory. Given the importance of the social, political, and institutional dynamics surrounding land ownership and access and use rights in our research, as well as the relevance of analyzing opportunities and agency for commoning, we found a close affinity with the TdC and considered it as a prime candidate for structuring the methodological framework of our commoning case study analysis. As a political science approach that explains how people (person-agents) justify their positions referring to particular cités [reference worlds], and negotiate, pursue, and effectuate common worlds as compromises within an institutional complex world, TdC provides the groundwork for an appropriate analytical framework to analyze and guide commoning processes. Yet when leading our pilot case study (during a first involvement with Trage Wegen) we discovered some hiatuses in the TdC, especially with respect to the way it addresses the (social) psychology of actors and the role of social relations among them. We operationalized TdC as TdC+ in order to turn it into a methodological framework for commoning Action and Research.” (p. 3)
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GdL (30 juin 2024). From Land Ownership to Landed Commons. Social Innovation in the Commoning of Scarce Land Resources. Économie des conventions. Consulté le 8 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/11woq