The Market as a Commons Workshop: Developing a Comparative Framework for Investigating Cultural Resources in Regional Economies

在美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的资助下，科洛雷多-曼斯菲尔德博士将邀请21位学者参加为期两天的研讨会，探讨社区如何利用文化资产来发展当地经济。特别是，研讨会将评估解释自然资源系统的公地理论如何适用于调查文化资源。事实上，独特的、以遗产为基础的资源在全球经济中占有重要地位。许多社区都在为当地种植的作物、手工制作的商品或具有民族特色的商品寻求法律保护。其他社区则转向文化诉求，以恢复传统制造业和商业贸易的经济价值。该研讨会旨在建立一个分析框架，以便在这些区域经济体之间进行比较。为期两天的会议将汇集来自美国、英国、比利时和澳大利亚的一个国际学者小组，他们目前正在研究工匠社区、土著文化遗产、地方粮食经济和自然资源公地。与会者的工作将分为四个主要环节：(1)文化资产的鉴定和评估；(2)对产生文化资产的相互作用的描述；(3)结合文化与经济、塑造区域贸易防御的地域战略；(4)主持圆桌讨论，以缩小研究议程并使合作研究项目成为可能。核心的智力任务是将对地方贸易的研究与公共文献联系起来。法律、流行文化、土著遗产和技术领域的作家都接受了公地的概念，以解释共享资源在全球互联经济中的重要性和脆弱性。然而，工作需要解决在市场体系内部形成的资产与脱离市场并随着其产品获得经济价值而被开发的森林、渔业和牧场之间的关键差异。研讨会的参与者将开发分析术语来描述文化资源，确定建立这些共享资产的竞争与合作模式，并记录用于保护资源不被强大的外来者占用或被当地生产者过度开发的规则、设置和策略。目标是阐明实际的研究问题，使研究人员能够回到他们的实地地点和数据集来评估文化资产的使用并比较他们的结果。该研讨会将建立一种国际合作，有助于培训、从事学术研究和政策工作。实际上，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的研究与行动综合中心将为传播与项目有关的研究提供支助，并促进以讲习班模式为基础的研究生培训。更广泛地说，讲习班计划在研究、专题讨论会和出版物方面的后续工作将为寻求参与和评估讲习班模式的其他学者、决策者和潜在研究生提供参与途径。

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Colloredo-Mansfeld will host twenty-one scholars in a two-day workshop that examines how communities use cultural assets in order to develop local economies. In particular, the workshop will assess how theories of the commons that explain natural resource systems can be adapted to investigate cultural resources. Indeed, unique, heritage-based resources have found prominence in the global economy. Many communities have sought legal protection for place-based crops, handcrafted commodities or ethnically identified wares. Other communities turn to cultural claims to restore economic value to traditional manufacture and commercial trades. The workshop aims to build an analytical framework that will allow comparison across such regional economies. The two day gathering will bring together an international group of scholars from the United States, England, Belgium and Australia who are currently researching artisan communities, indigenous cultural heritage, local food economies, and natural resource commons. Participants will divide their effort into four primary sessions: (1) the identification and valuation of cultural assets; (2) the description of interactions that generate cultural assets; (3) the place-based strategies that link culture and economy and shape the defense of regional trades; and (4) moderated round table discussions to narrow a research agenda and enable collaborative research projects. The central intellectual task is to connect research on local trades to the commons literature. Writers on law, popular culture, indigenous heritage, and technology, have embraced the idea of the commons to explain the importance and vulnerability of shared resources in a globally connected economy. However, work needs to address the crucial differences between assets that form within market systems themselves and forests, fisheries and pastures that stand apart from markets and become exploited as their products gain economic value. Participants in the workshop will develop the analytical terms to describe cultural resources, identify patterns of competition and cooperation that build these shared assets, and document rules, settings, and strategies used to defend resources against appropriation by powerful outsiders or over-exploitation by local producers. The objective is to articulate practical research questions that will allow researchers to return to their field sites and data sets to assess the use of cultural assets and compare their results. This workshop will set up an international collaboration that contributes to training, engaged scholarship, and policy work. In practical terms, UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Integrating Research and Action (CIRA) will both provide support for the dissemination of project-related research and serve to promote graduate training rooted in the workshop's models. More broadly, the planned follow-up for the workshop in terms of research, a symposium, and publication will enable pathways of participation for other scholars, policy makers and potential graduate students seeking to engage and evaluate the workshop's model.