Commons and Democratic Entreprise Research Program - France
* Chaire 3D&C (Démocratiser, Démarchandiser, Dépolluer: From the Neoliberal Firm to the Commons Movement). University of Lille (France) & UCLouvain (Belgium). Leads: Isabelle Ferreras & Pierre Robert.
Description
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The 3D&C Chair is an international research program based at the University of Lille, developed in partnership with UCLouvain, and funded through the French WILL (France 2030) initiative. It brings together scholars working at the intersection of political economy, democratic theory, and commons-based approaches.
Its core ambition is to rethink the transformation of contemporary economies by linking three processes:
Democratizing → expanding democratic governance into the sphere of production (especially firms)
Decommodifying → reducing the dominance of market logics over social life
Depolluting → aligning economic activity with ecological limits
What makes the chair distinctive is its attempt to bridge two traditions that are usually separate:
The movement for workplace democracy (opening firms to worker participation and political rights)
The field of the commons (non-market, cooperative, and shared forms of ownership and governance)
Rather than treating these as alternatives, the chair explores their possible hybridization—how commons-based logics could transform firms, and how democratic governance could reshape production systems more broadly.