Both concepts of “global public goods” and “global commons” are increasingly being used, both as powerful rhetorical devices in the policy discourse of international organizations and the debates of civil society, and as analytical and normative frameworks in international legal scholarship, economics and political theory. What difference does it make to express and frame global […]
The term ‘commons’ today is widely and extensively discussed within different theoretical frames of reference. Historically it refers to natural resources that we, the people, have in common. Resources that are not one’s property and are available to all: air, water, earth. Today, the term is used in very different ways in economic, social, and […]
After the success of the 1st EMES-Polanyi International Seminar held in Paris in February 2012, EMES in collaboration with the European Institute of Political Economy Karl Polanyi and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, will organize the 2nd EMES-Polanyi International Seminar on 19th and 20th of May 2016. After the focus on the economic crisis of the 1st Seminar, […]
The panel seeks to address the categories of gentrification and commoning as two different, but not necessarily opposite attitudes toward the reconfiguration of neoliberal power in Europe and beyond. In doing so, we seek to discuss how post-capitalist imagination is seen to emerge from practices of self-organisation, DIY resistance or community based groups and collectives. […]
Budapest will host the 5th International Degrowth Conference at Corvinus University (30 August – 3 September 2016). The conference will link the most visible degrowth thinkers of today with academic and participatory audiences in Hungary and the wider region. At the same time Budapest will be the host of the first Degrowth Week, which will feature […]
Parallel worskhop on community development, land tenure and social innovation under conditions of rapid urban transformation Questions of land tenure have been of major interest to urban development policy makers and practitioners in cities of the South. Many communities, and particularly the urban poor communities fell victim to eviction, displacement, lack of tenure rights and […]
The ‘Institutions for Collective Action’ research team of Utrecht University as well as the researchers affiliated with Utrecht University’s Strategic Theme ‘Institutions for Open Societies’ are proud to jointly host the global XVI Biennial Conference, ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) in the […]
INDIGO Public lecture by Laurent Thévénot (EHESS) MAKE IT COMMON. Differing and composing common spaces and common-places The model of orders of worth analyses conventions of equivalence and evaluation which aim at public legitimacy, insofar as they are based on a characterization of the common good for humanity and are put to a reality test […]
INDIGO Research Seminar: From the Théorie des Cités to the creation of Landed Commons On the 15th of December 2017, the INDIGO-research-consortium organises an International Research Seminar on the “Théorie des Cités” and how it can be applied in Action Research on the Concrete Landed Commons, with contributions by Laurent Thévenot (EHESS), Bruno Frère (Université de Liège), […]