Presentations from the #otheranthropolitics workshop

In the context of documentation of the #otheranthropolitics workshop co-organized by Heteropolitics and the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly in Volos on April 15-16, we have collected some of the powerpoint presentations here:

  • Vassilis Chryssos (Sarantaporo.gr) – A community aspect of wireless networking technology: The case of Sarantaporo.gr [pptx]
  • Aikaterini Velessiotou (Women’s Centre of Karditsa) – Reforming the social organizations of the local authorities: implementing a pilot street work action for ROMA women by the Women’s Centre of Karditsa [pptx]
  • Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Thessaly) – Knowledge brokers in cooperative networks: becoming actors in the production of hope [pdf]
  • Vassilis Bellis (Development Agency of Karditsa) – The collaborative “Ecosystem” of Karditsa [ppt]
  • Georgios Dafermos (AUTH) – Digital Commons and Peer Production: Exploring their transformative potential [pdf]

Audio from the #otheranthropolitics workshop

Here’s the audio recording from the first day (afternoon session) of the #otheranthropolitics workshop co-organized by Heteropolitics and the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly in Volos on April 15-16, 2019:

And here’s the audio from the second day of the workshop (afternoon session):

Heteropolitics international workshop in Volos on April 15-16

Our #otheranthrpolitics international workshop in Volos looks like it’s going to be a blast! Here’s the programme of all the talks and round tables:

MONDAY 15 APRIL

Morning Session

10:30 – 11:00 Welcome coffee

11:00 – 11:10 Introductory comments: Aimilia Voulvouli & Alexandros Kioupkiolis

11:10 – 11:40 Ida Susser (CUNY): Commoning in Paris and Barcelona: the challenges of transformative politics

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Heteropolitics international workshop in Volos on April 15-16

‘Ηeteropolitics’ (ERC COG 2017 – 2020) is a research project on alternative forms of political self-organization at the grassroots and the local level, mainly. It discusses and partly compares processes of alternative politics around participatory democracy and the commons in Spain, Italy and Greece. The aim is to acquire, from different perspectives, a broad and nuanced understanding of messy, contradictory but also promising new modes of civic engagement, institutional participation and administration on the city level, examining the extent to which they can help catalyse wider processes of democratic transformation. The aims and the perspective of the research are not narrowly academic. Our intention is to gather and disseminate knowledge on democratic social transformation, civic politics and initiatives and the commons in the three countries, in the hope of boosting activities of socio-political and economic democratic change in the Mediterranean South and more broadly.

In this context, we are organising an international workshop of the project entitled #otheranthrpolitics to be held in Volos on 15th – 16th of April. The event is co-organized and hosted by the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly with the participation of researchers and volunteering and institutional activists.

Organising Committee: Aimilia Voulvouli, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Penelope Papailias, Petros Petridis, Maria Deligannidou

If you are on Facebook, you can find more information about the workshop at https://www.facebook.com/events/282386455993154/