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Fwd: [CommonGood] interesting article on BIG
by Michel Bauwens 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

dear Stacco, I would suggest republishing this case study, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: tina ebro <cgebro(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:19 AM Subject: [CommonGood] interesting article on BIG To: Common Good Newsgroup <commongood(a)listi.jpberlin.de> apologies if cross-posting *From HUFF POST, 4 JANUARY 2017* A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It Posted: 12/23/2014 9:38 am EST Updated: 01/03/2017 5:00 pm EST - - Share11818 <https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpos…> - Tweet <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?lang=en&text=A+Canadian+City+Once+Eliminat…> - - 0 <https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share?url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12…> - 113 <http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi.huffpost.c…> - Comment187 - <http://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.ca%2F2…> - <http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.ca%2F…> - <http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.ca%2F2014%2F12…> [image: Print] *An aerial view of the city of Dauphin, Man. Forty years ago, a groundbreaking experiment provided cheques to Dauphin’s poorest to raise their incomes to a liveable wage. (Photo: Dauphin Economic Development/Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/DauphinEDT/photos/a.316741675110477.72891.16698242…>)* On a December afternoon, Frances Amy Richardson took a break from her quilting class to reflect on a groundbreaking experiment she took part in 40 years earlier. “Well, that was quite a few years ago,” she said. “There was a lot of people that really benefitted from it.” Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba city were selected to be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incomes for everyone. For five years, monthly cheques were delivered to the poorest residents of Dauphin, Man. – no strings attached. x And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated. The program was dubbed “Mincome” – a neologism of “minimum income” – and it was the first of its kind in North America. It stood out from similar American projects at the time because it didn’t shut out seniors and the disabled from qualification. The project’s original intent was to evaluate if giving cheques to the working poor, enough to top-up their incomes to a living wage, would kill people’s motivation to work. It didn’t. But the Conservative government that took power provincially in 1977 – and federally in 1979 – had no interest in implementing the project more widely. Researchers were told to pack up the project’s records into 1,800 boxes and place them in storage. A final report was never released. *Read more about the minimum income: $10,000 For Everybody? Why A Guaranteed Income Just Might Work <http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/23/minimum-income-basic-income_n_63704…>* Richardson is now 87 and still lives in Dauphin. She says only three or four of the city’s original Mincome recipients remain among the prairie community’s 8,251 residents <http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/fogs-spg/Facts-csd…> . During the program’s heyday in the mid-1970s, Richardson was a mother of six – three of her children lived at home. To earn money, she ran a small salon out of her home called Fifth Avenue Beauty Chalet. Whatever cash she could make styling hair contributed one stream of the family’s income; her husband Gordon provided the other with his job at the local telephone company. Her ailing mother also lived in the house at the time. She remembers Mincome researchers visiting the home regularly to calculate how much money the family was qualified for. “We kept track of everything and somebody would come once a month,” she explained. “I kept track of what I made and they would pay the difference to what they figured that cost many people to live.” *A postcard shows “Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival Choir” in Dauphin, Man. During the 1970s, the prairie community was home to one of the country's largest Ukrainian populations. (Photo: The Printing House)* Mincome provided the Richardsons with financial predictability and a sense of stability. There was always food on the table. The bills were paid. The kids stayed in school. And when Gordon’s health took a turn for the worse mid-way through the pilot project, the family still made ends meet. “It was a lot of good, but see, the Manitoba government and the federal government both went out of power that year and they ran out of money – so it was just dropped,” Richardson said. “It was done.” *An extraordinary program for ordinary people* In five years, Mincome helped one thousand Dauphin families who fell below the poverty line earn a livable income. When the project ended, locals didn’t make a fuss because they knew the cheques were temporary anyway. “Some people thought it was like charity,” Richardson said about Mincome. “It wasn’t really charity, it was need.” So in 1979, it was business as usual again. After Mincome folded, people tapped into their prairie work ethic and looked to make do however they could. The Richardson family went back to scraping by, the same way they had before the project began. The kids found jobs: one sold gas at the local garage, another landed entry-level work in insurance. Richardson continued to bake bread and can her own preserves at home. It’s a cash-saving skill born out of hard times some food bank-dependent families have lost today, she suggested. “I think if we had a Mincome where they were helped a little,” she added. “That might be better.” * * * Why Dauphin? How did a farming community play host to such a landmark social assistance program? Good political timing didn’t hurt. In 1969, the left-leaning provincial NDP led by Edward Schreyer swept into power for the first time. The transition injected new rural sensitivities and democratic socialist influences into politics. On the federal level, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister. The two men worked swiftly to set up conditions for a basic income experiment. In 1973, Manitoba and the federal government signed a cost-sharing agreement <http://legalcheckpoint.blogspot.ca/2007/11/social-policy-manitoba-mincome.h…>: 75 per cent of the $17-million budget would be paid for by the feds; the rest by the province. The project rolled out the next year. All Dauphinites were automatically considered for benefits. One-third of residents qualified for Mincome cheques. *How Mincome cheques were calculated*: *1. Everyone was given the same base amount*: 60 per cent of Statistics Canada’s low-income cut-off. The cut-off varied, depending on family size and where they lived. But in 1975, a single Canadian who was considered low-income earned $3,386 on average <https://books.google.ca/books?id=L4lBLrMaNkIC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=low+incom…> . *1975* *2014 dollars* Individual $3,386 $16,094 Family of two $4,907 $20,443 *2. Base amount was modified*: 50 cents was subtracted from every dollar earned from other income sources “It was sort of something new and utopian. It was completely different,” said Dauphin’s current mayor Eric Irwin. “It was an attempt to define social services in a different way.” *A ‘gap in the system’ ignored* Dr. Evelyn Forget is the researcher at University of Manitoba credited for tracking down those 1,800 dusty boxes of Mincome raw data that sat forgotten for 30 years. She first heard about the project in an undergraduate economics class at the University of Toronto in the ‘70s. Mincome cheques were still being delivered when her professors praised the experiment as “really important,” saying it was going to “revolutionize” the delivery of social programs. It stuck with her. In 2005, she began looking for the Mincome data. After a strenuous search, she located the records at the provincial archives in Winnipeg. She was the first to look at them since they were packed up in 1979. “[Archivists] were in the process of wondering whether, in fact, they could throw them out because they took up a lot of space and nobody seemed interested in it,” said Forget. It didn’t take her long to realize the plethora of files could never be funneled into any sort of statistical analysis. There were questionnaires with circled answers. And data on one family could be scattered between countless boxes. It also didn’t help that there were no labels or index. Because of an ethics board policy, Forget couldn’t directly contact the people whose data she was now in possession of – the participants had consented to speak to the original researchers only. Instead, she used a guest spot on a local radio station to invite Mincome recipients to call *her*. *Looking south on Main St. North in Dauphin, Man. around 1973. (Photo: Dennis Popeniuk/Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1533271603557884&set=o.96010260499&…>)* One woman called to say she remembered the Mincome project. In the early 1970s, she was a single mother raising two girls on welfare – then called Mothers’ Allowance <http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/capjack.htm>. She said she had always been treated respectfully, but there was one thing case workers said that bothered her. “She said she wanted to get some job training. They told her to go home and take care of her kids and they would take care of her,” explained Forget. When the opportunity to transfer from Mothers’ Allowance to Mincome came along, the woman took it. With no restrictions on how she could spend the money she was given, she signed up for training and got a part-time job at the local library which eventually became a full-time career. “So when I talked to her, she was incredibly proud of having modelled a different kind of life for her daughters,” Forget said. The retired librarian invited Forget to visit her home. Inside, she was shown pictures from her two girls’ graduations, mother beaming with pride. In 2011, Forget released a paper distilling how Mincome affected people’s health using census data. She found overall hospitalization rates (for accidents, injuries, and mental health diagnoses) dropped in the group who received basic income supplements. *Film footage of a 1976 parade in Dauphin, Man. recorded on Super8 film. (Video: YouTube/Leo Bunyak <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvhtvJXNi64&list=PL1JRpOQ6c4iIx5AdYVL25uUOL…>)* By giving a community’s poorest residents enough to lift their incomes above the poverty line, there was a measurable impact on the health care system. It’s this kind of logic that Forget hopes will propel the idea of basic income forward, four decades later. “I’m enough of an optimist to believe that eventually we’re going to end up there. I think we already have part of the program in place,” said Forget, referring to existing supplements including the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors and the National Child Benefit. “The one gap in the system right now is the working poor: people working in insecure and precarious jobs.” * * * *A ‘classic Ottawa initiative’* Two years before the Harper government shut down its operations <http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2012/04/12/harper_throws_na…>, the National Council of Welfare released a damning report <http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/12/13/welfare_rules_forcing_people_…> criticizing how welfare rules are trapping people in poverty. “Canada’s welfare system is a box with a tight lid. Those in need must essentially first become destitute before they qualify for temporary assistance,” said TD Bank’s former chief economist Don Drummond <http://rabble.ca/news/2010/12/canadian-welfare-system-outdated-national-cou…> after the social agency’s report was released in 2010. “But the record shows once you become destitute you tend to stay in that state. You have no means to absorb setbacks in income or unexpected costs. You can’t afford to move to where jobs might be or upgrade your skills.” Former Conservative senator Hugh Segal is a longtime proponent of a guaranteed annual income policy. He believes the program could save provinces millions in social assistance spending on programs like welfare. Instead of being forced through the welfare system, people’s eligibility would be assessed and reassessed with every income tax filing. Those who don’t make above the low-income cut-off in their area would be automatically topped up, similar to Mincome in Dauphin. *How guaranteed annual income could work today:* • Distributed as a federal Negative Income Tax • Top-ups are calculated automatically and delivered after income tax filings • Top-ups would render people ineligible for provincial welfare • Provincial welfare money gets reallocated to other priorities (i.e. elder care, expanded early childcare programs) But the idea never took off in Canada. The lessons of Mincome never spread. Simply put: The Mincome experiment discontinued because the governments changed. Segal says what happened in Dauphin was a “classic Ottawa initiative,” with a lot of money spent putting a program in place, but without adequate investment to evaluate if it was effective or not. *Basic income not a ‘silver bullet’* Renewed energy in European campaigns for basic income have attracted more reporters and researchers to Dauphin. This summer, a Netherlands TV crew <http://www.730ckdm.com/index.php/news/item/1576-mincome-documentary-being-f…> brought some excitement to town while on location to film a documentary about Mincome. “This started about a year ago with the press fooling around, starting to ask questions,” Irwin said. *Grain silos and trains in Dauphin, Man. (Photo: Getty Images)* While the idea of basic income has gained traction in countries including Scotland, Switzerland, Namibia, Uganda, and India, others are skeptical. “I’m not convinced it’s a silver bullet,” explains Leilani Farha, executive director of Canada Without Poverty and acting United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing. “It’s not just about money. It’s about so many other things.” “Poverty is also about stigmatization and discrimination. You know, basic income is not going to address that. No single policy is going to address that,” she said, criticizing the existing social assistance system as one that hands out “paltry, paltry amounts of money.” “The problem is that nothing is going on,” said Farha referring to government momentum. “There’s no leadership on these issues.” *Currents changing in Canada* During his nine years in the Senate, Segal advocated strongly for basic income for Canadians. But in his time as a member of the Conservative caucus, he “didn’t see the tiniest indication of interest on the part of the government” in another test site or implementation. That’s because the current government shares the Mulroney administration view that “the best social policy is a job,” he said. The one exception was late finance minister Jim Flaherty who established the working income tax benefit <http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/bnfts/wtb/menu-eng.html> to aid working Canadians living in poverty. He was the only one to engage constructively, Segal says. Segal said he doesn’t expect the concept to gain traction again among the Harper Conservatives. “I would think it’s fair to say ideologically, the present government would eye the notion that this is some ‘kooky left-wing scheme’ without addressing the fact that really strong social and economic conservatives like Milton Friedman argued in favour of a negative income tax,” he said. In Canada, the idea of an universal basic income was first presented at a Progressive Conservative policy convention in October of 1969. Then-leader Robert Stanfield argued the idea would consolidate overlapping security programs and reduce bureaucracy. But in the last two elections, Segal says poverty did not come up in television debates between party leaders once. It’s something he doesn’t want to see repeated. “I think it’s an abomination that we wouldn’t discuss it when we have close to 10 per cent of the population living beneath the poverty line.” Yet he remains more optimistic in this decade than the last because of signs of interest from the federal Liberal and Green parties. “One begins to sense, not that the ice is breaking, but the currents underneath the ice are beginning to move more quickly,” he said. _______________________________________________ CommonGood Mailingliste JPBerlin - Politischer Provider CommonGood(a)listi.jpberlin.de https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/commongood -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [c&f] Bilan et perspectives. Pour une culture numérique
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hervé Le Crosnier <herve(a)cfeditions.com> Date: 2017-01-02 16:20 GMT+07:00 Subject: [c&f] Bilan et perspectives. Pour une culture numérique To: "cetf(a)cfeditions.com" <cetf(a)cfeditions.com> Bonjour, Changer d'année, c'est toujours faire un bilan et repartir d'un bon pied vers de nouvelles aventures. Pour C&F éditions, l'année 2016 a été celle d'une accélération de notre travail... et 2017 promet d'être plus actif encore. Au final, ce que nous essayons de dessiner, c'est une place élargie pour la culture numérique dans le monde des idées. Un monde qui existe certes en utilisant de nombreux outils d'échange et de communication... mais un monde dont le livre, parce qu'il permet de poser les termes des débats et d'entraîner le lecteur dans la réflexion approfondie, reste un élément majeur. Le secteur de la culture numérique est vaste. Il rapporte au développement du numérique des idées provenant à la fois de la technique, de la sociologie, de la politique, de l'économie, et après plus d'un demi siècle de développements, de l'histoire. Les librairies n'ont pas encore d'espace réservé à cette culture, qui reste pourtant un élément essentiel de l'autonomie des citoyens, de la littératie du monde contemporain et de la capacité d'action des individus. C'est à nous éditeurs, et à vous lecteurs, de faire reconnaître ce secteur et lui donner toute la place qu'il mérite. Et bien entendu aux auteur(e)s. Nous sommes très content d'avoir pu en 2016 publier et faire entendre les voix diverses au sein de cet univers de la culture numérique. Et notre programme 2017 s'avère aussi riche et encore plus diversifié. Petit rappel 2016 (chaque lien permet d'en savoir plus et de voir les articles des médias consacrés à chaque livre) : - Fred Turner : Le Cercle démocratique : le design multimédia, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années psychédéliques (Traduction : Anne Lemoine) http://cfeditions.com/cercleDemocratique - Tristan Nitot : surveillance:// les libertés au défi du numérique : comprendre et agir http://cfeditions.com/surveillance - danah boyd : C'est compliqué : Les vies numériques des adolescents (Traduction : Hervé Le Crosnier) http://cfeditions.com/boyd - Xavier de La Porte : La tête dans la toile (en collaboration avec France Culture) http://cfeditions.com/toile - Hervé Le Crosnier : En communs : une introduction aux communs de la connaissance http://cfeditions.com/en-communs - Anne Cordier : Grandir Connectés : les adolescents et la recherche d'information http://cfeditions.com/grandirConnectes Bonnes lectures, Hervé Le Crosnier ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- Liste d'information de C&F éditions Pour s'abonner : http://mail.cfcloud.fr/cfeditions/subscribe/cetf Pour se désabonner, envoyer un mail à sympa(a)cfeditions.com avec comme sujet et comme message le texte suivant : unsubscribe cetf Pour accéder aux archives : https://mail.cfcloud.fr/cfeditions/arc/cetf -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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input on top 10 commons/p2p trends very welcome
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

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Fwd: 17 ans de liberté : merci !
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Kaplan <dkaplan(a)fing.org> Date: 2017-01-04 20:03 GMT+07:00 Subject: 17 ans de liberté : merci ! To: Mr Michel BAUWENS <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Cher.e.s ami.e.s et adhérent.e.s de la Fing, Quand je regarde le chemin parcouru depuis que nous avons créé la Fing, une chose me frappe d’abord : depuis 17 ans, nous sommes libres. Pendant ces 17 ans, la Fing a travaillé sur les sujets qu’elle a choisis et publié ce qu’elle a voulu. Elle a inventé ses métiers, ses activités, ses méthodes. Elle a respecté ses valeurs, à commencer par l’indépendance, l’ouverture, le caractère collectif et public de ses travaux. La Fing a gagné et conservé cette liberté grâce à la qualité de sa production et la diversité de ceux qui y prenaient part (vous, pour simplifier). Très peu de gens, en France et dans le monde, savent faire ce que la Fing sait faire : à savoir, *à la fois*, regarder loin devant et fonder profondément ses réflexions ; faire un pas de côté pour défier les consensus ambiants, sans béer devant la disruption ; produire des idées neuves et hétérodoxes, mais aussi décrire les manières de les réaliser, engager leur mise en œuvre, susciter des dynamiques de transformation et les laisser s’émanciper ; convier à ses coproductions, dans un égal respect, les chercheurs comme les opérateurs de terrain, les Grands Décideurs comme les petits entrepreneurs, les noms les plus établis comme ceux qu’on ignore encore… En guise d’illustration, je vous invite juste à prêter attention à la qualité et la diversité de la production de la Fing *cette année*, en 2016, alors même que notre propre transition rendait la vie de l’équipe plus compliquée encore que d’habitude. Inspirez-vous de la publication finale de Bodyware <http://www.fing.org/?Bodyware,1283> et bien sûr, de chacun des articles d’Internet Actu <http://www.internetactu.net/> ; découvrez la fécondité des « pistes d’innovation» de Softplace <http://www.fing.org/?Softplace-publie-ses-pistes-d>comme du projet international Futureduc <http://reseau.fing.org/blog/group/162252/all>; accompagnez-nous dans l’exploration de plus en plus profonde des liens entre numérique et écologie (Transitions² <http://www.transitions2.net/>), dans l’entreprise, dans les territoires et au-delà ; voyez les réflexions du projet Digiwork prendre forme au travers du « Transformateur » <https://www.letransformateur.fr/> et de la Musette numérique de l’actif <http://www.fing.org/?Retour-sur-3-ateliers-Musette>; diffusez la *data literacy *(littératie numérique) grâce aux Infolabs <http://infolabs.io/> ; embarquez dans la révolution du *self data* que MesInfos <http://mesinfos.fing.org/> porte avec un nombre croissant de parties prenantes et, désormais, à l’échelle européenne ; faites place au pouvoir transformateur de la petite échelle dans les ateliers de Questions Numériques <http://reseau.fing.org/groups/profile/40689/questions-numeriques>… Il n’existerait rien de tout cela sans l’équipe de la Fing. Je n’ai pas de qualificatifs suffisants pour décrire leur intelligence, leur inventivité et leur engagement même dans les moments les plus difficiles. J’ai juste des noms à écrire : Amandine, Aurialie, Cécile, Charles, Denis, Guillaume, Hubert, Jacques-François, Manon, Marine, Rémi, Renaud, Sarah, Sophie, Thierry, Tristan, Véronique – gratitude et admiration ! Passer la main à une telle équipe me remplit de confiance sur l’avenir de la Fing. Jacques-François Marchandise, sans qui je n’aurais pas accompli grand-chose depuis plusieurs décennies, la dirigera d’une manière plus collégiale que moi ; il était temps qu’un tel changement intervienne. Le Conseil d’administration – ainsi, j’espère, que tous les adhérents de la Fing –, devraient aussi y jouer un rôle plus actif encore, comme ce fut déjà le cas cette année. Je les remercie de leur soutien constant, avec une pensée particulière pour Philippe Lemoine, président responsable, appui ferme et coach à l’occasion. Pour ma part, je reste associé à certains projets de la Fing, mais sans intervenir dans son management. Adhérente.e.s et ami.e.s de la Fing, équipe et contributeurs, proches et moins proches : merci encore. Quand, sans cesse, nous venions avec de nouvelles questions, des intuitions pas ficelées, des méthodologies expérimentales, des concepts orthogonaux, des dispositifs inhabituels, vous avez pris le risque avec nous. Quand nos valeurs d’ouverture se heurtaient à la culture de vos organisations, vous les avez défendues. Vous avez sans cesse démenti le récit décliniste d’une France conservatrice, cloisonnée, confite. Vous êtes la Fing. Je suis profondément fier de ce que nous avons accompli ensemble. Et plus fier encore de ce que la Fing continuera d’accomplir. Amitiés reconnaissantes, Daniel Kaplan ------------------------------ Pour ne plus recevoir de mail de la Fing, envoyez un mail à desabonnement(a)fing.org, ou bien cliquez sur ce lien de désabonnement <http://relations.fing.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=3208&qid=…> . ------------------------------ *FING - association pour la Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération* *Site* : http://fing.org | *Réseau* : http://reseau.fing.org/ *Marseille* : CMCI, 2 rue Henri Barbusse, 13001 Marseille - 04 91 52 88 26 *Paris* : 8 passage Brulon, 75012 Paris - 01 83 62 98 28 mailto:[email protected] -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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ESA 2017 conference "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities": Abstract submission now open
by Christian Fuchs 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Abstract submission now open "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities" 13th European Sociological Conference European Sociological Assocation Athens, Greece, 29 August to 1 September 2017 http://www.europeansociology.org./conferences/13th-conference-2017/ Abstract submission via https://www.conftool.pro/esa2017/ Abstract submission deadline: February 1, 2017 Invited speakers include David Harvey, Yanis Varoufakis, Donatella della Porta, Eva Illouz, Hartmut Rosa, Silvia Federici, Ruth Wodak, Gerard Delanty, Margaret Abraham, Maria Kousis, Markus Schulz, Michel Wieviorka, and others. The conference will feature keynote talks, invited semi-plenaries, sessions by ESA's 37 thematic networks, 17 research streams, midday specials, and a pre-conference PhD workshop. In addition, the ESA conference provides for the first time the opportunity for submission of abstracts to selected semi-plenary session topics. Such Semi-plenary topics now open for submission include for example the themes "(Un)Making Europe", "Un)Making Capitalism", "(Un)Making Solidarities", "(Un)Making Subjectivities", and other topics. Call details: http://www.europeansociology.org/download/esa2017_CFPs.pdf Please consult the details of the call and have a look at the guidelines before you start submission. In order to make use of the reduced conference fee, renew your ESA membership early or become a new ESA member now: New membership: http://www.europeansociology.org/member/ Renew membership: http://www.europeansociology.org/membership_renewal/ Conference theme "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities" Europe can be made or unmade, and this is especially true since the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008. European society, and even the very idea of Europe, is under threat. First, the inherent contradictions of capitalism are obviously stronger than we thought: Greece, where the emphatic idea of “Europe” originated, has experienced severe austerity measures; Europe has seen a deepening of neo-liberal politics, threats to what remains of the welfare state and increasing inequality. Second, solidarities are fragmented in and between societies across Europe. The new world economic crisis formed a context for both the constitution and the undermining of solidarities. On the one hand, from the Arab Uprisings to the various Occupy and Indignados movements and their manifestations at the level of political parties we have seen rebellions by citizens demanding political change. On the other hand, refugees fleeing wars have been denied human rights and their lives have been threatened by the closure of borders and the lack of a coordinated European strategy. Third, subjectivities are formed that do not only result in resistance and protest, but also in apathy, despair, depression, and anxiety. Authoritarianism, nationalism, racism, xenophobia, right-wing extremism, spirals of violence, and ideological fundamentalisms have proliferated throughout the world, including in Europe. As a result, the promise of Europe and the geographical, political, and social borders of Europe have been unmade and this ‘unmaking’ poses a profound challenge for sociology and the social sciences more generally. It is in this context that the European Sociological Association’s 2017 Conference takes place in Athens at the epicentre of the European crisis. The underlying question for the conference is: How and where to should a sociology that matters evolve? How can sociology’s analyses, theories and methods, across the whole spectrum of ESA’s 37 research networks and various countries, be advanced in order to explain and understand capitalism, solidarities and subjectivities in the processes of the making, unmaking and remaking of Europe?

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Fwd: Michel Bauwens - 10 formas para acelerar la Economía P2P y la Economía d...
by Michel Bauwens 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

different presentation in Tenerife (2nd and last item) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pablo <pablo.fernandezdelcastillo(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:59 AM Subject: Michel Bauwens - 10 formas para acelerar la Economía P2P y la Economía d... To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> https://youtu.be/8M14_1Ndtzg Enviado desde mi iPhone -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Michel Bauwens - ¿Qué son las transiciones postcapitalistas? La Lógica d...
by Michel Bauwens 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

intervention in Tenerife; https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Institutional_Resilience_in_Non_Conventional… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pablo <pablo.fernandezdelcastillo(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:00 AM Subject: Michel Bauwens - ¿Qué son las transiciones postcapitalistas? La Lógica d... To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> https://youtu.be/9kstV9vCbtU Enviado desde mi iPhone -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Has recibido un vídeo de YouTube
by Michel Bauwens 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

dear Stacco several video presentations are listed on the right hand side, feel free to use mine on the p2p blog if appropriate at some time, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pablo <pablo.fernandezdelcastillo(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 9:57 PM Subject: Has recibido un vídeo de YouTube To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Dear Michel Happy new year, here is the other video from your talks in Tenerife. Share them in your networks. Cheers Pablo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M14_1Ndtzg&list= PL00Ou4zMZNsSUEkk44pwiR4R4pEwTq_hT&sns=em Enviado desde mi iPhone -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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best wishes for 2017 to all subscribers of this mailing list
by Michel Bauwens 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

May you all be able to live your values to the maximum extent possible, I'm sharing mine here, with sjamanistic music in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2IBVjLKAw -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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