A report (co-authored by Heteropolitics researcher Aimilia Voulvouli) focusing on the case of Sarantaporo.gr in Greece has just been published on the GISWatch website.
Connecting the unconnected in rural Greece: The case of Sarantaporo.gr
Alternative Politics in the era of crisis: Towards an Anthropology of the Commons
Heteropolitics researcher Aimilia Voulvouli will be chairing the panel on Alternative Politics in the era of crisis: Towards an Anthropology of the Commons at the upcoming 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Jose, California.
Crianza y Comunes/Childcare Commons: Audios & Report
[ENG] In this post you’ll find documentation (in Castellano/Catalan) and a report (in English) from the colloquium ‘Crianza y Comunes: Hace falta un Poble-Sec para criar?’ (see programme here) which took place on 5-7th october 2018 in Poble Sec neighbourhood in Barcelona.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[CAST] En este post encontrais documentación (en cast/cat) y un report (en inlgés) del encuentro ‘Crianza y Comunes: Hace falta un Poble-Sec para criar?‘ (aqui el programa) que tuvo lugar el 5-7 octubre 2018 en Barcelona, Poble Sec.
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Counter-hegemony, the commons and new city politics
Alexandros Kioupkiolis explores several topics of central importance for research on heteropolitics in this new forthcoming publication, entitled ‘Counter-hegemony, the commons and new city politics‘.
Interview with Alexandros Kioupkiolis on the commons
The current issue of Marginalia features an interview with Dr. Alexandros Kioupkiolis, in which he argues that “what is crucial in the social and solidarity economy is the conscious political orientation”.
You can read the interview (in greek) here.
NetCommons Video Report- Sarantaroporo.gr community network training
Video report from a Sarantaporo.gr training session on March 11, featuring Heteropolitics post-doctoral researcher Aimilia Voulvouli.
Filmed and edited by our partner Panayiotis Antoniadis of Nethood.
Crianza y Comunes: Hace falta un Poble-sec para criar? Encuentro
La dimensión barrio y la crianza. Tensiones y invenciones entre común, público y privado.
5-7 octubre 2018
Poble Sec, Barcelona
Hace falta un pueblo para criar. Pero qué coño es un pueblo, en nuestros mundos individualizados, dispersos y urbanizados? En la última década han (re-)surgido muchos experimentos y revindicaciones para responder a esa pregunta. Desde la península iberica y sus nuevos feminismos se han lanzando muchas madres y aliadas a la busqueda de formas de tribú, y de infraestructuras comunes de crianza, más allá de los modelos privatizadores y heteropatriarcales. Planteamos un encuentro para formular, escuchar y pensar juntas nuestras necesidades de una crianza más compartida, mirando hacia espacios comúnes y prácticas no exclusivas para cuidar a pequeñxs. Queremos debatir las tensiones y invenciones que se dan entre lo público, lo privado y lo común en la crianza. Os esperamos a todas, con o sin criaturas.
En este encuentro contamos con un espacio infantil con acompañante.
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Heteropolitics panel @ EASA 2018
Aimilia Voulvouli and Alexandros Kioupkiolis from the Heteropolitics team, along with Maribel Casas-Cortes, will host this panel on alternative politics, ethnographies and the commons, fleshing out ideas we have been discussing and developing both theoretically and in field research on how ethnographies of social mobilizations, grassroots initiatives and new civic practices can help us to re-imagine and remake radical democratic politics in our times.
1st report on Heteropolitics’ field research in Bologna
This is a brief report on the fieldwork in Bologna, Italy, as conducted by the PI: Alter-politics and commons in Bologna 4 -10 June 2018
We post it in a draft form, because it conveys a concise and illustrative idea of our approach, containing some preliminary conclusions of Heteropolitical research and some interesting points about the commons and the political in the contemporary Italian context.
Audio from the 2nd day of the Torino workshop on law, the commons and politics in Italy, with Ugo Mattei, Alessandra Quarta and Rocco Albanese
Illuminating, critical and constructive discussion of how the law is implicated in the promotion of alternative politics of the commons in the contemporary Italian context by leading scholars engaged in the field: