Interview of Philippe Minard about E. P. Thompson’s book: Whigs and Hunters : The Origin of the Black Act, translated and published in French in 2014. Philippe Minard par Mediapart
Valuing natural capital or devaluing nature?
Maxime Combes produced a report on the first “Global Forum on natural capital” which took place in late November 2013 in Edinburgh (Scotland). The document decrypts the process of developing new tools for natural capital accounting based on the valuation…
Wa(te)rdrops, un projet de documentaire sur les luttes autour de l’eau en Grèce
A great new documentary that is currently in production, documenting the water struggles around Greece. The working title of the new documentary is “Wa(te)rdrops”, and it aims to present, through in-depth research and fieldwork, struggles concerning water around Greece, including…
Hosting the Commons
By Samantha Slade “From where I stand today, one of the challenges of advancing an emerging movement such as the commons lies in how we build the community and how we meet in ways that embody the values of commoning.…
Commons And Populare Education, Experience Sharing And Perspectives
At the last meeting of the Francophone network for the commons, popular education approaches have been discussed several times. Working groups should be set up to pursue this logic, one in particular, around the idea of school or university common…
Define The Commons In The Map
Some experiments for mapping the commons, from the definitions and brief descriptions of commoning actions or initiatives, with an instance of Chimere installed by Frédéric Léon at Brest. Chimere allows to place on a maps “points of interest” as defined…
La boussole de Johannesburg et les Communs
The 11 and 12 November, the DEEEP project , co-funded by the European Union program , gathered in Johannesburg (South Africa) 200 activists from around the world to rethink the framework of development NGOs and initiate the construction of a…
Define The Commons #5
Define the commons #5, is the fifth serie of short videos of definitions of the commons, produced by Communautique and Gazibo for Define The Commons. It contains 12 capsules presented below. This serie has been gathered at the Internationale conference…
Define The Commons #4
Define the commons #5, is the fifth serie of short videos of definitions of the commons, produced by Communautique and Gazibo for Define The Commons. It contains 12 capsules presented below. This serie has been gathered at the Internationale conference…
Define The Commons #3
Define the commons #3, is the third serie of short videos of definitions of the commons, produced by Communautique and Gazibo for Define The Commons. It contains 16 capsules presented below. This serie has been gathered at the Internationale conference…