Apresentação

Global mobilizations for reclaiming the commons are building a critical paradigm to respond to the dispossession brought about by neoliberal policies. Imagining new practices of commoning may be seen as forms of democratic participation. This workshop is intended to explore the possibilities engendered by such mobilization through a consideration of theories and practices produced around the commons, and through commoning. In particular, we aim to address a set of interrelated issues:

• What are the forms of resistance and struggle against the commodification of resources, and how do these experiences sustain community resilience and reorganization?
• How may the practices of commoning generate novel community arrangements, envision new forms of citizenship, and transform the subject of neoliberal governance?
• What are the potentials of the claims for rights and bottom-up law-making towards a “democratization of democracy”?
• As the commons’ counter-narrative moves us beyond the private/public divide, what renewed notions of property, value, wealth, and welfare emerge from these processes?
• What constitutes the commons? How are coalitions for commoning being produced?

The workshop will bring together scholars/activists working on re-commoning ideas, struggles and social practices in Portugal, Galicia, Italy, Romania, and Cyprus.

This event is organized by the Center for Social Studies (CES) with financial support from:  EC - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks - FP7 - PEOPLE – 2011 (contract No. 289374 – ENTITLE);  ; PhD Program "Democracy in the 21st” of the University of Coimbra; International Social Science Council – project n. T2S_PP_232,  Towards Just Sustainability.


Commissão organizadora: Stefania Barca, Rita Serra, Giovanna Micarelli, Irina Velicu e Lúcia Fernandes (CES)