{"id":956,"date":"2025-10-02T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/towards-a-collective-recognition-of-common-goods\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:40","slug":"towards-a-collective-recognition-of-common-goods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/bellagio-initiative\/towards-a-collective-recognition-of-common-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards A Collective Recognition Of Common Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image\">\n\t<\/div>\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTowards a collective recognition of common goods<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Towards a collective recognition of common goods\">\n<div class=\"notification\">\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\" style=\"display: inline;\">\n\t<button class=\"follow\" type=\"submit\" name=\"ActionAddToNotification\" title=\"Follow this blog\" id=\"author\"><\/button><br \/>\n\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ContentNodeID\" value=\"7453\"\/><br \/>\n\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"UserRedirectURI\" value=\"\/Blogs\/Bellagio-Initiative\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/almeida-ashley-patricia\/\">Patricia Almeida Ashley<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>27 September 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<aside class=\"textblock\">\n<article>\n<h1>About the author<\/h1>\n<div class=\"tleft\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/almeida-ashley-patricia\/169367-1-eng-gb\/almeida-ashley-patricia_author.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"tright\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/almeida-ashley-patricia\/\">Patricia<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/>Almeida Ashley<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPatricia Almeida Ashley is Professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil). Sh&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/almeida-ashley-patricia\/\">full profile<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">A deconstruction of the mechanical view of \u201cdots\u201d and a change to \u201cwaves\u201d, networks and relations in the way we conceive processes and results of policy, is what I recommend. We should apply a bird\u2019s eye view\u2014as Escher practiced and taught us through his drawings\u2014to see a multi-level, multi-actor, territorial and integral approach for development agencies and philanthropic foundations. When I mention a focus on \u201cwaves instead of dots\u201d in the policy making process&nbsp;and in evaluating policy results, this is an analogy that draws on quantum physics instead of mechanic physics. Here, I am hinting at a conception of policy making that is embedded in network-territories of relations as expressed by its principles, methods, targets, goals, and impacts. It includes explicit stakeholder engagement throughout the entire process of policy conception, planning, implementation and evaluation, by means of a truly participative and democratic process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">When I mention participation, I do not mean only at the beginning or at the end of a policy development process in a one- or two-day large-scale event that gathers the type of representatives that are used to being invited for consultation rounds. These big events in a \u201cdots\u201d approach are commonly used by local government in countries where, traditionally, policy making is technocratic or even autocratic, and serve the purpose of reproducing new drafts of more or less the same policy document (\u201cs\u00f3 para ingles ver\u201d).&nbsp;In this approach, government representatives organize a series of meetings with community leaders, business representatives, politicians, consultants and\/or academics. They then tend to ask for listed priorities in their neighborhood without any previous knowledge sharing or building with participants on the urban and rural economic, social, environmental and institutional indicators of development and, hence, the outcomes are mainly based on the limited perceptions of individual stakeholder views as \u201cdots\u201d within a municipality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\tAlternatively, complexity thinking in a \u201cwave\u201d approach requires a proper participative process of policy making.&nbsp;From the beginning of the policy process, appropriate methods and language for knowledge building and sharing from a multi-level analysis are needed, both from spatial and temporal perspectives (from \u201cdots\u201d to \u201cwaves\u201d, from person to people, from organizations to networks, from human to nature, from business to markets and societies and humanity, from time to history, from local to regional, national and global, from material to energy levels). This will help to consider a collective recognition of common goods as public multi-generational interests (\u201cwaves\u201d), instead of the exclusive perspective of subjective perception based on who speaks loudest to make his or her point of view more powerfully than others (\u201cdots\u201d).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"credit\">Photo credit main picture: Image by Spettacolopuro<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- body -->\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"topright\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bottomleft\"><\/div>\n<h1>Comments<\/h1>\n<div class=\"form\">\n\t<a id=\"formstart\"><\/a><\/p>\n<form enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Your comment will not be automatically posted but first reviewed by the editor. 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