How can people care for what they share?
Compare evidence about shared resources with accounts of reciprocity, participation and responsibility to place. These approaches ask overlapping but distinct questions.
Ways into the question
Begin with Elinor Ostrom
Under what conditions can a shared resource be governed collectively?
Begin with Bina Agarwal
When does being included in a group fail to give someone influence?
Begin with Robin Wall Kimmerer
How does reciprocity change a description of an ecological relationship?
Begin with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
How can land and relationships be part of a method of learning?
Thinkers to read
Elinor Ostrom
Research on how people organise shared resources. Compare actual rules, monitoring and conflict resolution rather than assuming a single governance solution.
Bina Agarwal
Land rights, gender and participation in environmental governance. Distinguish nominal membership from the ability to influence a decision.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Botany, Potawatomi knowledge and arguments about reciprocity. Keep empirical questions and obligations toward the living world visible together.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Nishnaabeg intellectual traditions, land-based learning and Indigenous resurgence. Begin with a specific account of learning rather than a universalised idea of Indigenous knowledge.