[P2P-F] Fwd: [Commoning] Fwd: AAG 2015 Panel Proposal: Strategic role of the commons for movements and academics?

Fri Oct 31 12:46:11 CET 2014

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From: Silke Helfrich <silke.helfrich at gmx.de>
Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:08 PM
Subject: [Commoning] Fwd: AAG 2015 Panel Proposal: Strategic role of the
commons for movements and academics?
To: commoning <commoning at lists.wissensallmende.de>, commons at lists.riseup.net
Cc: "michellew101 at yahoo.com >> Michelle Wenderlich" <michellew101 at yahoo.com>

Hi everybody,

this call for a panel proposal at AAG 2015 (Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers in Chicago, April 21 to April 25, 2015)
might be interesting for some of you, pls. contact Michelle Wenderlich
(cced) directly until November 3 at the latest.

All the best
Silke

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Betreff:        AAG 2015 Panel Proposal: Strategic role of the commons for
movements and academics?
Datum:  Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:01:40 +0000
Von:    Michelle Wenderlich <michellew101 at yahoo.com>
Antwort an:     Michelle Wenderlich <michellew101 at yahoo.com>
An:     silke.helfrich at gmx.de <silke.helfrich at gmx.de>

Hi Silke,
We've met briefly at a couple of conferences in Berlin.
I wanted to send this to you in case you would be interested or if you
can think of people who might happen to be going to Chicago who should
know about it? Or lists to send over? Let me know if so, or forward away!
Otherwise: hope you are well!
All the best! Michelle
----
Michelle Wenderlich
PhD Student
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University

***Sorry for cross posting; please forward to possibly interested parties***

AAG 2015 Panel Proposal:

Strategic role of the commons for movements and academics?
Of late, well-known academics such as David Harvey and Slavoj Žižek have
been calling for the reframing of struggles around commons, and social
actors have increasingly been using these ideas to fight privatization
and neoliberal reforms world wide, including around issues of water,
land, electricity, housing, the financial system, and other areas,
especially (in the global North) around occupy and climate justice
movements. Yet how the commons are conceived and what the term or
practices mean for those involved is not widely discussed or agreed
upon. The commons literature seems to be split between institutionalist
approaches (e.g. Ostrom 1990) and anti-capitalist commons (e.g. de
Angelis 2003, Caffentzis and Federici 2014). Some (e.g. Mattei 2011,
Observatorio Metropolitano 2011) have emphasized the processual and
practice-based characteristics of the commons, and blurring of
subject-object relationships that these practices create. Most of the
literature sees a clear demarcation and conflictual relationships
between the state, capital, and commons. Yet if each member of this
trifecta is considered to be continually reproduced by social practices
and are increasingly seen as hybrid entities, can these hard and fast
divisions remain? Or is there use in conceiving two modes of politics
and social practices, represented by the One and multiple or the
hierarchical and horizontal (Hardt and Negri 2009, Zibechi 2012, Sitrin
2012), separated by the central importance of autonomy and
self-determination? What is actually happening in struggles around the
world, do movements see commons as a useful signifier in their work, and
if so, how are commons understood and practiced?
Some central issues include:
Political strategic and theoretical importance of the commons
Practices of formation and reproduction of commons
Meanings and affective elements of the commons
Relations between commons and the state
The role of autonomy in commons struggles
Transformative potential of the commons? 
Differences in commons struggles between the global North and South, and
across sectors

Let’s discuss.

I’m looking to see if there are 3-5 more participants interested in this
panel, and would ideally like the structure to facilitate as open a
discussion as possible, to have this be a space of cross-fertilization
of ideas and experiences. I’m also interested in co-organizers.
Please email Michelle Wenderlich mwenderlich at clarku.edu (Clark
University) with a short statement of interest (including research
interests and how you might approach some of the themes/questions listed
above) by noon EST on November 3. I will get back to you in a day or so
and ask for your AAG registration pin in order to register the session
by the Nov 5th deadline.

References:
Caffentzis G and Federici S (2014) Commons against and beyond
capitalism. /Community Development //Journal/, 49(S1):
  i92– i105.
de Angelis, M (2003) Reflections on alternatives, commons and
communities or building a new world from the bottom                up.
/The Commoner/, 6.
Hardt M and Negri A (2009) /Commonwealth/. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap
Press of Harvard                       University Press.
Harvey D (2012) /Rebel Cities: From the Right tot he City to the Urban
Revolution./
////////London: Verso.
Mattei U (2011) /Providing Direct Access To Social Justice By Renewing
Common Sense: /////
/////////The State, the Market, and some Preliminary Question about the
Commons/,
              Available at:
http://uninomade.org/preliminary-question-about-the-commons/
Observatorio Metropolitano (2011) /The Commons, social cohesion and the
autonomy of/
///////social////reproduction. /Available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/social_cohesion_CoE/the-commons-social-cohesion-
<http://www.slideshare.net/social_cohesion_CoE/the-
commons-social-cohesion-and-the-autonomy-of-social-
reproduction-observatorio-metropolitano-extract>
and-the-autonomy-of-social-reproduction-observatorio-metropolitano-extract
<http://www.slideshare.net/social_cohesion_CoE/the-
commons-social-cohesion-and-the-autonomy-of-social-
reproduction-observatorio-metropolitano-extract>

Ostrom E (1990) /Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions
for Collective///
///////Action/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sitrin M (2012) /Everyday Revolutions. /London: Zed Books.
Zibechi R (2012) /Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin
American Social Movements/. Oakland: AK  Press.
Žižek S (2009) How to begin from the beginning. /New Left Review/, 57.

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