GER Seminar: Popular economies between self-management of work and social conflict
From the Group of Studies on Reciprocity, we invite you to the December seminar
Popular economies between self-management of work and social conflict
Next Wednesday, December 4th at 10am we will celebrate the December session of the Group of Studies on Reciprocity
In the Anthropology Seminar, Faculty of Geography and History, 2nd floor
We will welcome Alioscia Castronovo
Abstract
In recent decades, popular economies in Latin America have contributed to the transformation of the scenario of social struggles by confronting, through processes of social self-organization in the territories, new dynamics of exploitation, extraction, dispossession and impoverishment. Articulating diverse forms of work, collective organization and popular creativity, these heterogeneous networks combine ways of guaranteeing the reproduction of life with heterogeneous practices of cooperation and social conflict. Based on my research with experiences of self-management of work in Argentina, I propose a reflection on the relationships between socio-spatial dynamics of self-organization, production of political subjectivity and economic imagination. From an ethnographic approach, I am interested in analysing the political-economic strategies of the textile cooperative of popular and migrant economy “Juana Villca”, reflecting on the potentialities, tensions, limits and perspectives of cooperative and community networks. On the other hand, I present some preliminary hypotheses of my current postdoctoral research linked to the experiences of self-organization, the processes of politicization and the challenges of public policy for popular economies in Colombia, in relation to the experimentation of emerging forms of popular institutionality.
Biography
Alioscia Castronovo is an anthropologist, with a PhD in Urban Studies from Sapienza University of Rome and in Social Anthropology from IDAES UNSAM in Buenos Aires, with ethnographic research on self-management processes of work in recovered companies and cooperatives of the popular economy. He is currently Principal Investigator of the postdoctoral project “Popular economies in Latin America: urban territories and self-organization in Colombia”, of the STARS Starting Grants program at DISSGEA, University of Padova. He researches popular urban economies, self-organization processes and the challenges of public policies in Colombia. He has published in international journals in Spanish, English and Italian. He is a member of the CLACSO WG “Popular economies. Theoretical and practical mapping”, the Socioeconomics, Institutions and Territory Group of UNAL, the International Advisory Board of the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy – Duke University program and the Urban Popular Economy Collective.
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