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Category. : Movements. A directory of social and political movements related to the P2P (participatory), open (open access to knowledge), and 'commons' paradigms. Please read: Overview Essay: Prophets and Advocates of Peer Production. By George Dafermos. Chapter 7: The Handbook of Peer Production.
Bio. "Jasmina Husanovic-Pehar is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She received her PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK in 2003. She has been a member and initiator of various research and activist platforms in B&H and internationally, concerning ...
"Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist who has worked for many years with the problem of development in the Third World, articulating the inappropriateness of conventional models of development, that have lead to increasing poverty, massive debt and ecological disaster for many Third World communities.
Natalie Pang (Assistant Professor, Division of Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University) obtained her Ph.D. in Information Management, Social Science from Monash University in 2009, where her research was also awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Doctoral thesis excellen...
Commonfare, or “welfare of the commons”, is a participatory form of welfare provision based on collaboration which enfranchises all of society, even those not tied to the labour market.
Cosmolocalism stands for a transformation in how we produce the stuff of life. It is a contested space with no guarantees. There are patent wars and appropriations of IP, the challenges in building and financing open source and open design start ups, creating urban commons ecosystems, and a variety of other challenges.
In spite of these struggles, the cypherpunk movement has experienced a renaissance in recent years thanks to the rise of projects like Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer cash system that enables the secure exchange of digital tokens without the need for a trusted third party like a bank or credit card company.
