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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Webinar | Commoning Dialogues

Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices", Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA).

The "Commoning Dialogues" were launched as a event series in winter 2023-24 and continued as a webinar series in winter 2024-25.

Learn more about “Commoning Practices” by listening to the youtube videos of the webinar series / Winter 2024-25:

Common/ing Concerns

2 December 2024

Commoning practices have in recent years attracted increasing attention, also outside academia, as a potential solution to many of the problems facing the world today – social, political, and environmental – and as future-oriented political practice rooted in solidarity, justice, equality, and sustainability. Within academia, commoning has been understood as a way to rethink relations between the economy and social life, between humans and nature, and between North and South, by emphasing participation, collaboration and mutual well-being. Being or experiencing oneself ‚in common’ here provides a basis for re-imagining sociality, solidarity and citizenship outside traditional frameworks of community and nation, and beyond identity markers emphasizing sameness or difference.


In this dialogue, Xiang Biao (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) and Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Cologne) will explore Common Concerns as a specific approach to anthropological research and discuss how commoning concerns may support social repair and generate new forms of solidarity ‘from the ground up’ in an increasingly divided, crisis-ridden world."

Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices", Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA).

On Commoning as Labor for Socioecological Transformation

25 November 2024

Commoning is increasingly discussed as an important element of post-capitalist socioecological transformation. Capitalist value logics have been central drivers of environmental destruction and climate change, placing both “traditional” and “new” commons at risk of being enclosed or co-opted. At the same time, commons are being re-created by a host of commoning initiatives that rely on them for social reproduction and that prefigure a society where value practices of care, sharing, reciprocity, and solidarity shape social relations, including relations to non-human nature. 

In this online Commoning Dialogue, Gustavo García-López (Universidade de Coimbra) will speak about his research on environmental justice struggles in Puerto Rico and discuss with Katharina Bodirsky (Universität Konstanz) the potential - as well as potential limits - of the labor of commoning for (post-capitalist) socioecological transformation. 

 

Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices", Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA).

 

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