Paper presented at “En-gendering Macroeconomics & International Economics Summer Seminar”, (16-18.7.2013) Krakow, Poland.
Paper presented at “En-gendering Macroeconomics & International Economics Summer Seminar”, (16-18.7.2013) Krakow, Poland.
The paper has been presented at the Heteropolitics International Workshop, held in Aristotle University of Thessalonike on 13-15.9.2017.
https://www.academia.edu/35957415/Commons_and_private_property_as_a_patriarchal_trap
Full Conference proceedings at
http://heteropolitics.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Conference_Proceedings_Website.pdf
Abstract:
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.
Διαφάνειες από τη μελέτη (σε εξέλιξη) που παρουσιάστηκε στο 4ο Συμπόσιο Ελληνικής Γαστρονομίας που έλαβε χώρα στα Καράνου την 29-30.7.2017.
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.
Αυτές είναι οι διαφάνειες για τη μελέτη που παρουσιάστηκε στο Συνέδριο Ιστορικού Υλισμού 2017, που διεξήχθη στη Βηρυττό, 10-12 Μαρτίου 2017.
https://www.academia.edu/31944779/What_if_there_is_no_surplus_in_the_economy
This is the slide presentation used at the Historical Materialism -Beirut 2017 Conference (10-12.3.2017, Beirut – Lebanon).
Το κείµενο γράφτηκε ως συνοδευτικό υλικό για την παρουσίαση της µελέτης «Φύση, χρυσός και αγώνες για τις αξίες», που παρουσιάστηκε την 11-11-2016 στο Ετήσιο Συνέδριο Ιστορικού Υλισµού, στο Λονδίνο. Η πλήρης µελέτη πρόκειται να δηµοσιευθεί σε λίγο καιρό στην Αγγλική γλώσσα. Η παρουσίαση στα ελληνικά είναι στο σύνδεσμο https://www.academia.edu/30466197/%CE%A6%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B7_%CF%87%CF%81%CF%85%CF%83%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%8E%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%82_%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%AF%CE%B5%CF%82
και στα αγγλικά https://www.academia.edu/30466154/Nature_gold_and_the_struggles_for_value_s_
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.
https://www.academia.edu/30831609/Colonialism_and_the_Economy
Σκίτσο του Αντώνη Βαβαγάννη από τα Κουραφέλκυθρα 2016.
Cartoon by Antonis Vavayannis, 2016 – Kourafelkythra.
-And you, little girl, what would you like for a present?
– A bicycle!
– Are you sure? Are you sure you do not want a classless society without humans exploiting humans?
– No! i want a bicycle!
……..
– Hi Karl, how was your first day at the new job?
– Sucks.
Article by Michael Running Wolf at Yes!Magazine about the kitchen established in the camp of Water Protectors (All Nations Camp) at Standing Rock North Dakota.