Martin Pedersen
J. Martin Pedersen is an independent researcher and activist, co-founder of Knowledge Lab [1]
Bio
- Author of PhD thesis - "Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software" - publication currently under negotiation with The Commoner [2]. Thesis submitted January 2010, Department
of Philosophy, Lancaster University. Examined by Massimo De Angelis.
Selected presentations:
- Property Imaginaries in Cyberspace Politics, presentation at
CPERC-Cesagen-Sociology Workshop on Imaginaries: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, Lancaster University, June 2010.
- “Reflections from the Rain Forest: Property, Politics and Autonomous
Development in the Amazon”, invited presentation of field work findings with Nina Moeller at International Centre for Participation Studies, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, November 2008.
- “Revisiting the Circumstances of Justice in the light of Free Software:
What happened to Society?”, paper presented at A World for All?: the Ethics of Global Civil Society International Conference, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, September 2005.
- “Lessons from Cyberspace: The Free Software movement and the
Configuration of Ownership”, paper presented at Imaging Social Movements, Edge Hill College, July 2004.
- “Free Software and Indymedia”, presentation at Wealth by Copyleft:
Creativity in the Digital Age, The 3rd Oekonux Conference, Department of Philosophy, Vienna University, Austria, May 2004.
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J. Martin Pederson is a participant at the Berlin Commons Conference