[sorry for x-posting] Papers can be submitted until Feb 12th. We welcome especially papers for digital commons related subjects! see further below. best regards, Wouter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: IASC Deadline Extension Paper Submissions Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:39:53 +0000 From: IASC Europe 2016 <[email protected]> Dear panel convenors, Please note that the deadline for paper submissions has been extended until *February 12th. *Please make sure that you have uploaded all paper abstracts which will be presented (including your own) by *this Friday. * * * Best wishes, IASC European Regional Conference ___________________________________________________________________ Dear commoners, you'll probably know the IASC: International Association for the Study on the Commons, in particular for their global conferences on this topic. Together with the IASC conference organisers we have defined a panel on Digital Commons. We invite you to submit a paper. *Digital commons in a ‚glocal’ world* Panel Convenors: Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute) Massimo Canevacci (University of Rome "La Sapienza" University do Sao Paulo (IEA-USP) See in the Call for Papers, http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016/sche... We think the digital commons perspective should not miss from the very interesting conference agenda. Therefore we urge you to submit a paper. Some topics that could relate to the IASC conference in general and to this panel in particular could for example be the following: - the effects of current intellectual property regulations (mostly in the interest of multinational companies and large capitals) on the digital commons - the alternative commons-based approaches for sharing digital forms of knowledge, as pioneeered by the Free Software Movement and nowadays known in a variety of fields, from Open Standards, to Open Educational Resources, from Open Design to Open Source Hardware and Free Culture. - the local resilience based on commons based networks of peers sharing knowledge, building telecom networks, food cooperatives, etc - the return of artesanal practices enriched with digital tools - the combination of global sharing of (industrial) knowledge and designs with a growing local production - sustainability by needing less and producing less: the motivations of peers producing and sharing knowledge as commons generating an abundance economy, much more satisfying than the consumption society; planned obsolescence and mass production in general manufacture more than humans need; bottum up, pull instead of push channeling of human needs with manufacturing of really needed products - sustainability by repairing and extending product's lifetime: what legal challenges do we need to overcome? These and other topcis would be very welcome for this panel. If in doubt don't hesitate to contact us. Below follow further details of the CfP. - All paper proposals (abstract of 500 words and 5 keywords) have to be uploaded with indication of the panel they want to participate in until February 5th via the IASC-conference website http://conferences.iasc-commons.org. - The panel should contain max. 5 paper contributions (All panels will last two hours and will include a maximum of 5 paper contributions. This implies 15 minutes for each paper contribution and 5 minutes discussion at the end of each contribution. This structure allows for a discussion of 20 minutes at the end of each panel). ********* Commons in a “Glocal” World: Global Connections and Local Responses Venue: University of Bern, Main Building Date: 10-13 May 2016 Contact: Tobias Haller Main theme: Global Connections and Local Responses. Research on the commons deals either with the development of institutions for the management of the commons, or with issues related to global change. While the latter mainly focusses on drivers and effects of global expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption, and societal reproduction, research on institutions for the management of the commons deals with collective action and the effects and reactions within local action arenas. However, the entangled institutional processes through which global and local arenas – referred to as “glocal” – interlock are not yet addressed in a systematic way. Europe has been a major driver of “glocal” processes. Therefore, the 4th Regional European Meeting of the IASC is devoted to global connections and local responses. It provides a space to advance our understanding of ongoing “glocal” processes and to analyse historically how commons in Europe have evolved and adapted to “glocal” changes. By integrating political ecology with approaches of New Institutionalism and Critical Theory in Anthropology, Human Geography, Political Science and History, we propose to investigate the impacts of external changes on the perception and evaluation of resources by actors related to the commons. This raises the question of local bargaining power, ideologies and discourses, and of the selection and crafting of institutional designs, which in turn affect the access to common-pool resources, as well as the distribution of benefits related to the management of these resources. This conference therefore aims to look at the interfaces between local and global processes in order to bring together research arenas that have often been kept quite separate until now. We therefore call for contributions focussing on: how global players such as multinational companies and organizations affect local governance of the commons worldwide the role of international law and global trade in shaping the interface between global actors and institutional processes of local commons governance the impacts of external economic and political changes on the perception and evaluation of resources and areas by actors related to the commons local resistance and the development of political strategies countering the transformation of collective into private or state-based property rights as a consequence of economic and political changes the local crafting of institutional designs in global and local arenas, and how these affect access to and distribution of natural resources and related benefits among local to global actors using the commons how the encounter of global and local processes affect bargaining power, ideologies and discourses of global and local actors in governing sustainability trade-offs. We especially welcome contributions that aim to address the above mentioned themes through novel forms of integrating theoretical approaches. In addition, the focus of the conference will be on a dialogue among representatives of different academic disciplines (e.g. geography, social anthropology, history, development studies, economics, political science, and law) and between academics and non-academic actors (e.g. practitioners, business representatives, policy makers, or NGOs). Accepted panels