The labour as commons
Third public lecture as part of Studies of Commons program cycle will be presented by Theodoros Karyotis.
10 Jan
Date
Tuesday, 10. jan
Lecturer
Time
18h
Program Language
English
Location
Entrance
FREE!
About the lecture
In his lecture The labour as commons: Taking the workplace and self-management as a antagonistic practice, Theodoros Karyotis will analyse the concepts of cooperative economy, through posing some key questions: What are the characteristics of antagonistic commons-based economy? What is the position of the workers’ conquests (and revive) the work process / place and collaborative venture in this project? The extent to which these practices may indicate the development of the new economy, the economy free from exploitation and oriented towards social needs? What are the threats that such ventures are facing in the capitalist market, and what can be done to overcomethese threats?
Occupying a work place and self-management have a long history. However, from the perspective of the current capitalist crisis, they are now reappearing through a constellation of different collaborative, alternative and solidarity-based economic practices, as a proposal for a radical overcoming of capitalism “from the inside”. This particular condition in which these practices coexist with capitalism while questioning it at the same time brings on a new series of questions.
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Through a series of lectures and workshops, Studies of Commons investigate topics such as alternatives to capitalism, heritage and the possibility of self-management, including implications of technological, economic and urban development that are guided by the idea of general or common good, i.e. commons.
The program presents and analyses examples of good practices in different contexts, but also through theoretical frameworks, and offers to the participants various aspects of organisational structures that provide successful results and whose experience may be useful for other local contexts when it comes to management and use of common resources. At the same time, the program will deal with collaborative practices, as well as forms and models of property relationships that are formed around the idea of “commons”.
Studies of Commons are co-presented by Nova Iskra, Ministry of Space and Regional Science Research Centre of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, and are realized with the support of Heinrich Boell Foundation.
Lecturer
Theodoros Karyotis
Sociologyst
Theodoros Karyotis is an independent researcher, translator and social activist. He is a sociologist and social anthropologist, and is active in grassroot movements that are related to direct democracy, solidarity economics and self-management of the commons. He translated a large number of relevant books and articles, and regularly publishes at roarmag.org in English and diagonalperiodico.net in Spanish. He is a coordinator at workerscontrol.net multilingual portal for workers' self-management, and a member of the organizing committee of Euro-Mediterranean Forum "Labour Economics" and the advisory Council of the Transnational Institute for Social Ecology.
