[P2P-F] The Optics of the Commons: an invitation for reflection and transformation

Mon Oct 21 14:16:06 CEST 2019

this is a really great and unique series of short commons talks by
representatives of marginalized communities, and what the commons means for
them, made in brazil by the Institut Procomun, STRONGLY RECOMMENDED:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fay4LtN9ksk&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=2

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:05 AM Georgia Nicolau <georgia.nicolau at gmail.com>
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>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 4:05 AM Georgia Nicolau <
>> georgia.nicolau at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> *"The commons is what gives meaning to our existence" Kum'tum
>>> Akroá-Gamella, from the  Akroá-Gamella people, state of Maranhão, northeast
>>> of Brazil.*
>>>
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>>> We believe that the commons, in its multiple perspectives, is an
>>> essential kaleidoscope concept for facing this historic moment of
>>> hopelessness, in Brazil and in the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Optics of the Commons series brings together sixteen short episodes
>>> featuring voices and ideas from young experts and activists. In the videos,
>>> they address different perspectives on living and making communities based
>>> on a diversity of studies, practices and experiences. Seen together, the
>>> approaches produce inspiring resonances.
>>> Taking inspiration from these words, the Procomum Institute
>>> <https://www.procomum.org/the-institute-procomum/?lang=en> invites
>>> everyone to reflect and question our ways of existing, living and building
>>> relationships.
>>>
>>> Watch and share! Let's talk about how together we can dream - and build-
>>> other possible futures. *All videos have english subtitles*.
>>>
>>> "I look at the commons from the perspective of the black people, who
>>> have always been separated from the State and capital” Bianca Santana,
>>> writer, journalist and researcher defines the Commons as the goods shared
>>> by certain communities, their experiences and resistances.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7emZKVF4w&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=1>
>>>
>>> The occupation of public spaces, conflicts and the construction of
>>> public policies that prioritize cities for people are themes and strategies
>>> raised by Marcio Black, cultural producer, political scientist and member
>>> of the Black System Collective, to interpret the Commons.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fay4LtN9ksk&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=2>
>>>
>>> “The commons is what  gives meaning to our existence,” shares Kum'tum
>>> Akroá-Gamella, a member of the Akroá-Gamella people, indigenous from
>>> Northeast of Brazil. For him, we are living a crisis that endangers the
>>> very existence of the planet because of practices that are part of a
>>> certain ideology of progress. Ancestral knowledge and a new way of seeing
>>> and understanding nature defines the commons for Kum'tum.
>>>
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgUDk-cELTM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=3>
>>>
>>> It is through the exchange, encounter and strengthening of autonomous
>>> experiences of traditional communities and spaces of resistance throughout
>>> Brazil and Latin America that the Collective Etinerâncias believes that the
>>> commons moves and is present.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEl1XEafyao>
>>>
>>> “The commons means a production focused on sharing and a permanent cycle
>>> of learning and distribution,” says João Brant, associate at the Procomum
>>> Institute and consultant in the areas of communication and cultural
>>> policies.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH6DvAKgF4&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=5>
>>>
>>> Abundance of water, soil and fresh air are common natural goods, but
>>> there are limitations placed by private property, for example. These
>>> reflections accompany and define the commons for Cinthia Mendonça, artist,
>>> researcher and director of Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5cpQYzAEU&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=6>
>>>
>>> What struggles, conflicts and constructions fit the definition of
>>> commons? Does natural goods define it in its complexity? The value of the
>>> commons to Jean Tible, professor of political science at USP- University of
>>> São Paulo.
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPxrIKgkMog&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=7>
>>>
>>> "The commons has to do with practices, relationships, territories and
>>> has to do with people, collective subjects," says Tica Moreno, a member of
>>> SOF (Sempreviva Feminist Organization), Master in Humanities and Social
>>> Sciences at the Federal University of ABC and PhD in Sociology by USP.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PsLmCCFn58&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=8>
>>>
>>> The commons, for those who come from the peripheries, is in the daily
>>> encounter and the plurality of actions. It surpasses the limits, the
>>> margins and defies the walls that prevent the construction of a more
>>> democratic and fair city. This is one of the commons perspectives for
>>> Mariana Belmont, journalist and member of the Imargem collective.
>>>
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDe7LvrVCxs&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=9>
>>>
>>> “You can't have the commons where there is inequality. You can't have
>>> the commons where there is oppression,” says Juliana Gonçalves, journalist
>>> and human rights activist. For her, it is from the micro to the macro, from
>>> the margins to the center that practices and knowledges that make up the
>>> commons are constructed and replicated.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa1WeSs5ETc&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=10>
>>>
>>> What values do we exchange daily? How do they affect us? What connects
>>> us and what makes us divide spaces? How do we create cultures for the
>>> commons? Thiago Carrapatoso is a journalist and master of the Center for
>>> Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College, and presents commons from other
>>> perspectives on the bodies, values and cultural impositions.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JyuLjdGv8&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=11>
>>>
>>> How is the commons presented in contemporary struggles? In resistances,
>>> existences - in the countryside and in the city. In cooperative relations
>>> and the confrontation with capitalism. Alana Moraes, an anthropologist and
>>> doctoral student at the Museu Nacional-UFRJ, presents perspectives that
>>> define and confront the commons.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyK3IyXCEc&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=12>
>>>
>>> “The commons is what endures, that is perpetuated for centuries. It is
>>> in the transversality between art, science, technology and ancestry”.
>>> Ricardo Brazileiro, computer scientist, master in Media, Interaction and
>>> Creative Systems for the Internet of Things, defends living in networks,
>>> occupying territories, spaces, free technologies and the sacred as
>>> opportunities for the commons.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDE-0OWM8k&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=13>
>>>
>>> Knowledge, culture and science belong to everyone and belong to no one
>>> at the same time. Henrique Parra, sociologist and activist, professor of
>>> social sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo, explains the set of
>>> distinct political principles, practices and meanings that define the
>>> commons.
>>>
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-T-OvQ5CM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=14>
>>>
>>> Constantly learning and unlearning, being with people and building with
>>> them, finding commonality in differences is what motivates Georgia Nicolau,
>>> director of the Procomum Institute.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u6FNlCO2Xs&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=15>
>>>
>>> The commons is the place of the in between, it is the crossroads, the
>>> dialogue and the convergence. A political device of social transformation.
>>> Rodrigo Savazoni, from the Procomum Institute, sees the commons as
>>> construction, possibility and practice.
>>>
>>> Click here to watch the full video
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5_dTVh11c&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=16>
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