[PeDAGoG] Introduction : the "Alternatives to Capitalism" Research Network

Thu Jul 9 19:40:54 CEST 2020

Thanks Lara and Torsten!
I am Manjit in PEDAGOG.
I found your activities very very interesting. And I will have plenty to
ask you  subsequently.
By the way, I teachEnvironmental History in a College in Delhi, India.
 thank you again for the intro.
warmly
manjit

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:18 PM Lara Monticelli <monticelli.lara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Pedagog community,
>
>
> We are finally able to introduce ourselves to this amazingly engaged
> community!
>
> Apologies for not having done so before, but we have been struggling with
> the Covid-19 situation here in Italy (where we are based at the moment) and
> with some health issues.
>
>
> We are Lara Monticelli
> <https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-politics-and-philosophy/staff/lmompp>
> and Torsten Geelan
> <https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/business/people/academic/torsten-geelan>,
> respectively, Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School and
> Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen (from Sept. 2020 onwards).
> We are both early-career sociologists struggling to survive in neoliberal
> academia, and now that we have some teaching experience, we are keen to
> engage in exchanges on critical pedagogy aimed at raising critical
> consciousness amongst educators and students.
>
>
> Albeit our different backgrounds, we are both interested in going beyond
> the classic critiques of capitalism and deepening our understanding of
> contemporary alternatives, why and when they succeed or fail, and how they
> can thrive.
>
>
> We realized that after the North Atlantic financial crisis of 2009, many
> researchers started to be interested (again) in alternatives to capitalism,
> but there was not an *interdisciplinary community* where these various
> researchers (coming from many different fields such as sociology, history,
> ecology, philosophy, economics, etc...) could meet and exchange their
> ideas, their views and their projects.
>
> For this reason, in 2018 we decided to found a *new research network
> (titled Alternatives to Capitalism) within SASE* - Society for the
> Advancement of Socio-Economics <https://sase.org/>.
>
>
> The network arose from the renewed debate about the *future of capitalism*
> and the urgent need to *prefigure and enact alternatives* that can help
> tackle the multiple intertwined crises that societies currently face – high
> and rising inequality of income and power, eroding democracy and citizens´
> rights, climate change and a shrinking welfare state.
>
> Since 2018, we have organized gatherings in Kyoto (Japan), New York city
> (at the New School), and this year fully online
> <https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1187> due to
> the Covid-19 situation (but the conference was planned to take place at the
> University of Amsterdam).
>
> You can browse our program here:
>
> *https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1187
> <https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1187>*
>
>
> In parallel with our annual gatherings which are usually held in June or
> July each year, we interact with our vibrant community through a *mailing
> list* (which counts almost 400 members at the moment).
>
> We warmly invite you to join us by subscribing here:
>
> *https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?SUBED1=ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPITALISM&A=1
> <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?SUBED1=ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPITALISM&A=1>*
>
>
> During our annual gatherings, which are held every year in a different
> city, it is fundamental for us to *engage with local activists and
> organizations*. For instance, last year in New York City, our
> participants could tour Fountain House <https://www.fountainhouse.org/>,
> observe a meeting, and explore how this communities’ mental health program
> uses decision-making by consensus with staff and members.  In addition, the
> founder of FIGMENT <https://newyork.figmentproject.org/> delved into how
> a free, annual participatory arts festival started in NYC and spread across
> North American cities.
>
>
> On another day, the* “Worker Cooperatives and the Labor Movement: A Co-op
> Development Initiative in the Nation’s Largest Union Local”* roundtable
> featured speakers from 1199SEIU, the Open Society Foundation, and
> the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and Worker Institute
> at Cornell ILR. This session discussed an important alternative for
> organized labor, exploring why the largest union local in the US is
> considering worker cooperatives as a strategy.
>
>
> Last year, we have been also lucky enough to host two prominent guests
> such as the founder and editor of Jacobin Magazine
> <https://jacobinmag.com/>, Bhaskar Sunkara, who discussed his new book *The
> Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme
> Inequality* (Basic Books 2019) and Professor Nancy Fraser
> <https://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty/nancy-fraser/> who presented her
> new book *Capitalism. A Conversation in Critical Theory* (Polity Press
> 2018).
>
>
> We are really glad to be part of this community and we look forward to
> creating strong bridges between the Alternatives to Capitalism network, the
> Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and the Pedagog community.
>
>
> In solidarity,
>
> Lara and Torsten
>
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