Commoning Against the Crisis in Greece and Beyond

* Article (Chapter 6): Commoning Against The Crisis. By Angelos Varvarousis and Giorgos Kallis.

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Description

"First, we propose to think of alternative economies as new forms of commons (De Angelis 2013b). Second, we argue that an early stage of liminality is catalytic for the take- off of new commons. And third, we observe that the evolution of a patchwork of new commons follows a rhizomatic pattern. Our core thesis is that the commoning movement in Greece benefited from a liminal state of unfixed identity, dominant in the period of the occupied indignant squares, and then blossomed as a rhizome. It now faces challenges of maturity in terms of its internal and external relations."

Contents

• "Part 1 explains the key concepts and theoretical terms used in this chapter: commons and commoning; liminality; and rhizomatic movements.

• Part 2 provides contextual information on the Greek crisis and outlines the fieldwork methods.

• Part 3 traces the origins of the new commons in the occupied squares and Greece’s indignant movement, and

• Part 4 details its rhizomatic expansion in health and food provi-sion, education and cooperative production.

• Part 5 discusses how the movement handles internal conflicts and democracy, how it attempts to organize at higher scales, and how it relates to the state and the market."