Το κεφάλαιο αναλύει ένα λαϊκό παραμύθι από την Κρήτη, που αναφέρεται στην χρήση της τεχνολογίας και στις επιπτώσεις της χρήσης αυτής όταν είναι υπό τον έλεγχο διάφορων κοινωνικών τάξεων.
Το κεφάλαιο βρίσκεται στον συλλογικό τόμο των W.G.Mullins & P.Batra-Wells (eds) (2019) The Folklorist in the Marketplace: The Economics of Folklore and the Folklore of Economics, Utah State University Press-University Press of Colorado, pp. 214-233.
The chapter analyses a folk tale from Crete island, referring to the use of technology and the impact of that use when technology is under the control of different social classes.
Chapter 10 in W.G.Mullins & P.Batra-Wells (eds) (2019) The Folklorist in the Marketplace: The Economics of Folklore and the Folklore of Economics, Utah State University Press-University Press of Colorado, pp. 214-233.
The paper investigates the concept of commons as a western European patriarchal term constructed in antithesis to private property following the historical material conditions formed during the advance of capitalism. I use feminist theory to understand how commons have taken over the demand for collective arrangements in late capitalism concerning both natural ecosystems and human societies.
The paper examines commons in comparison to private property and its understandings within a framework where patriarchy is investigated as an economic system and capitalism is a form of patriarchy. I also examine how commons became prominent in the political discourse, exactly at the time of multi-layered changes in private property regimes under neoliberal policies.
The focus on the commons has reduced the interest in the critique of private property and in its abolition as an anti-capitalist anti-patriarchal claim of communities and social movements. Quite the opposite: Commons are a form of property and the logic of property seems to expand to the discourse about the alternatives to private property. In other words, commons and private property are constructed in late capitalism as one more patriarchal binary of propertied “things”.
Moreover, the commons are thought of as the “left-overs” of private property. This perception leads to prioritising private property demands and having the commoners following the agenda of the privatisers instead of setting a non-property agenda. It seems that the commons, as constructed till the moment, bear this acceptance of private property as the main political economic institution to define arrangements of access and control over means of production. They also represent the social understanding that property is the only way to institutionally understand our relationship to the world.
The paper contributes to the commons debate by showing that the patriarchal construction of the commons keeps them tied to private property sustaining the latter and degrading the potential of the former for social change.
This is the slide series for a paper (work in progress) presented at the 4th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy, held at Karanou of Chania (Greece) on 29-30.7.2017.
Εδώ θα βρείτε το πρόγραμμα του 1ου Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου για τα Κοινά και την Κοινωνική & Αλληλέγγυα Οικονομία, που θα γίνει στη Θεσσαλονίκη την επόμενη εβδομάδα 4-7 Μαϊου. Η συμμετοχή και η παρακολούθηση είναι δωρεάν, ώστε να διευκολυνθούν όλοι και όλες να παρακολουθήσουν.
Το συνοδευτικό κείμενο σχετικά με τις αντιλήψεις μας για τις αξίες και πώς κινήματα όπως αυτά στην Βόρεια Ελλάδα κατά των εξορύξεων χρυσού (Χαλκιδική – Σκουριές, Πέραμα, Σάπες), αναδιαμορφώνουν τόσο την πράξη όσο και την θεωρία για την αξία της φύσης, είναι στον σύνδεσμο
This is a complementary text (in Greek) for the conference presentation “Nature, gold and struggles for values” presented on 11.11.2016 at the 13th Historical Materialism Conference. The full paper will be available the following months. The presentation files are available at the links below.
Αυτές είναι οι διαφάνειες (5 ενότητες) και η βιβλιογραφία από το εργαστήριο για την σχέση αποικιοκρατίας και οικονομίας, που έγινε την 12.12.2016 στο Πανεπστήμιο του Κόβεντρυ.
This is the set of slides and the reading list for the Doctoral Training Workshop held on 12.12.2016 at Coventry University.
