A dialogue between the Diverse/Community Economies approach and related thinking from the Americas
Abstract
This session will present key concepts in the DE/CE literature in dialogue with complementary concepts produced in both English and Spanish from the Americas. We will identify the singularities across bodies of literature and ways of doing things that are grounded in diverse languages, geographies, and contexts. The session emerges from and is inspired by the collective work of the CERN-LA regional gatherings since 2020 and will be conducted in English.
The session will begin with the concepts and methods of inventory, poststructural strategies (deconstruction, genealogy, and performance), and reading for difference (from a DE/CE framework), and how they operate in an inclusive search for diverse and community economies. We will then dialogue with the following notions: dispersión del poder (Zibechi); poder enmadre (Heras); procesos de subjetivación política colectiva and singular-subjetivante (Rotman, Miano, and Heras, inspired in the work by Etienne Tassin); bottom-up coalitions and organizational solidarity in practice (Vieta and Heras); recuperación, collective memory, and autogestión (Vieta); and "on being human as praxis" (Sylvia Wynter).
Speakers
Ana Inés Heras, Professor, Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Humanas, School of Humanities. Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) and INCLUIR
Christian Anderson, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
Marcelo Vieta, Associate Professor, Program in Adult Education and Community Development, University of Toronto
