Commons research in Latin America: an overview

ROBSON, J; LICHTENSTEIN, G.

Hyderabad, India

Congreso; 13th IASC International Conference; 2011

International Association for the Study of Common Property

Little is known about the state of commons research across the diverse regions andcountries that make up Latin America. This paper attempts to address that knowledgegap, by focusing on three main questions: 1) what type of commons under investigationin Latin America? 2) How well represented is Latin America within internationalscholarship on the commons? 3) How well is commons research represented in thesocial and interdisciplinary sciences in Latin America, and to what degree has theteaching of commons theory made it onto the academic curricula of major LatinAmerican universities? The findings are based upon the results of a survey sent to IASCmembers whose work is based in Latin America, and an exhaustive review of scholarlypublications and conferences, including the proceedings of previous IASC Conferences,papers published in the International Journal of the Commons, the Commons Digest,along with work on the commons published in other journals.