The 2027 IASC Conference, Centering the Commons: Resilience, Resistance, and Collective Action, will take place in Indonesia, bringing together scholars, policymakers, artists, and practitioners to explore the role of the commons in addressing contemporary social, ecological, and economic challenges.
The conference features a range of panel sessions that encourage dialogue and exchange across disciplines and perspectives. As part of the programme, Professor Tine De Moor will contribute to the panel ‘Solidarity and Economy: Rethinking their Relationship through the Commons’, alongside Maggie Poulos (Stanford University) and Charles Schweik (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
What is the panel about?
Across the world, growing social, ecological, and economic crises are prompting renewed interest in forms of collective organization that place cooperation, reciprocity, and shared environmental stewardship at the center of economic life. Research on both the commons and the solidarity economy has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, yet these evolving conversations are often in parallel rather than in dialogue. Solidarity economy scholarship foregrounds democratic ownership of resources, mutual aid, and economic alternatives, while commons scholarship has focused on institutions for collective action, commoning practices, and collaborative natural resource governance.
Underpinning both traditions is the desire to understand how societies might reorganize societies beyond the exclusive logics of market and state; however, what remains underexplored is the compelling relationship between solidarity, economy, and the commons. The panel welcomes theoretical, empirical, historical, and practice-based contributions that explore the intersections between commons, commoning, solidarity economy, diverse economies, and other forms of collective economic organization.
They are particularly interested in contributions that bridge scholarship and practice, engage with experiences from the Global South and North, and reflect on the transformative potential—and limitations—of solidarity-based economic arrangements. By bringing together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and contexts, the session seeks to advance a broader research agenda for IASC that places the solidarity–economy nexus at the heart of contemporary debates on collective action, institutional innovation, and socio-ecological transformation.