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Fwd: FRCPS Newsletter 01/2015
by jon 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Dear TransforMaps, where in our "governance structure" was the group organising research? Or are these non-canonised and just another informal user group? Else, FYI some more CfPs below. I especially think 2, 3 and 6 could be appropriate for a topic like TransforMap. Ciao, Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies < newsletter(a)frcps.uni-frankfurt.de> Date: 2015-01-13 20:33 GMT+01:00 Subject: FRCPS Newsletter 01/2015 To: jon.richter(a)gmail.com *FRCPS NEWSLETTER 01/2015* CONTENT ...CALL FOR PAPERS <#14ae4c93a467d109_cfp> ...EVENT AND WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS <#14ae4c93a467d109_wa> ...CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS <#14ae4c93a467d109_cfc> *Please note:* *The following items are excerpts taken from the full announcements. For more detailed information, please follow the links below (which will redirect you to the original announcements).* *The FRCPS, or its staff, takes no responsibility for content on other websites.* *If you would like to suggest an event of CfP to be included in the FRCPS newsletter, please send your suggestion to **frcps.mail(a)googlemail.com <frcps.mail(a)googlemail.com>**.* CALL FOR PAPERS Gender and the Colonial <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *SOAS Centre for Gender Studies, London, UK, 13-14 May 2015* In a period where gender is increasingly deployed via international and national policy initiatives, the Centre invites scholarship that analyses the role of gender (performance, embodiment, histories, constructions, deviations) in the persistence and legacies of colonial tropes, as well as papers that complicate expected understandings and meanings of gender through the study of the colonial and vice versa. The Centre welcomes papers from across disciplinary spaces, as well as the intersection of disciplinary approaches. Papers that analyse colonial histories and continuities are invited, as are those which use the tools of either postcolonialism and/or gender and/or queer theory to re-evaluate the ways in which these continuities contribute to the closure of debates on colonial politics, narratives and understandings. Papers are sought which challenge and disrupt the re-enacting and telling of colonial power relations through the deployment of gender tools and activism. The Centre also welcomes papers that directly address methodological questions regarding temporal and geographical assumptions, that explore histories and representations of women’s and/or queer activism, that address legal regimes and legacies in colonial spaces and/or contemporary spaces of resistance, as well as interrogations of the legacy of colonialism in the stories told and re-told in the histories of colonial powers. Abstracts or Panel Proposals are due by *31 January 2015*. Liveable Lives <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *RGS-IBG Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK, 2-4 September 2015* This session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference will explore what makes lives liveable in the broadest sense. Whilst livability/liveability has been discussed in philosophy and particularly the work of Judith Butler, it has yet to be fully engaged with in geographies. Addressing this concept may help to further our understandings of, and engagements with, social justice, social exclusions/inclusions and equalities. Papers may wish to consider Butler’s conception of liveability in terms of how we normatively construct the idea of who is a human and who is not; what lives are rendered liveable or unliveable; or what lives are rendered intelligible or unintelligible. Critiquing how normative liveabilities and intelligibilities are created could therefore be one point of departure for papers in this session. Abstracts are due by *6 February 2015*. Subverting the State: The Postcolonial Predicament <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> * Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent, UK, 22 May 2015* Presenting a daunting challenge to postcolonial studies, the rapid growth of neoliberalism, globalization and neo-nationalism requires renewed attention to the role of the nation-state and, more importantly, forces that seek to subvert the nation-state. In light of these challenges and framing subversion within a postcolonial context, this symposium invites scholars to ‘think outside the state’ from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. It seeks to discuss and develop productive ways of engaging with the opportunities and limits of theories of subversion that encompass and extend across postcolonial discourses. We invite papers from scholars working in the disciplines of history, literature, political science, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, human geography, religious studies and other related areas. Proposals reflecting an interdisciplinary approach are particularly welcome. Abstracts are due by *15 February 2015*. Postcolonial Studies Association Convention: Diasporas <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *University of Leicester, UK, 7-9 September 2015* Diaspora has been one of the key concepts of postcolonial studies within this context of individual and collective journeys. Within contemporary analysis, diasporas have tended to be explored in terms of ethnicity, race, nationality, and even religion. However, diaspora has sometimes been accused of perpetuating histories of colonial inequality by failing to differentiate between precarious migration motivated by exploitation and the more economically privileged transnational movements of the global bourgeoisie. The study of human movement during colonial and postcolonial times has taken a number of shapes across the humanities and social sciences through the study of diaspora, migration, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. Abstracts or Panel Proposals are due by *28 February 2015*. AfroEurope@ns V: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *University of Münster, Germany, 16-19 September 2015* African European Studies explore social spaces and cultural practices that are characterised by a series of contemporary and historical overlaps between Africa and Europe. This fifth bi-annual conference aims to provide perspectives on specific strands of this diverse and vibrant field, including both established and emerging research areas of a trans- and multidisciplinary nature. Recognising that African European Studies cannot be confined to textual representations, we encourage submissions on a wide range of topics from several disciplinary backgrounds. In addition to academics, artists, and activists, we welcome authors, social workers, journalists, and anyone else with a specific interest in the field. Abstracts or Panel Proposals are due by *1 March 2015*. Tracing the Path of Tolerance. History and Critique of a Political Concept from the Early Modern Period to the Contemporary Debate <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *Associazione Alumni della Scuola Galileiana, University of Padua and the Galileian School of Higher Education, Padua, Italy, 26-27 May 2015* During the history of political thought the concept of tolerance represented not merely an abstract idea, but rather a concrete political public space that rendered possible the recognition of those civil and political rights which contributed to the development of democratic societies. The concept has undergone radical changes during the centuries: from constituting a claim in favour of religious freedom within reformed communities in early modern Europe, to a representation of an institutional principle deemed to regulate social life. A concept largely accepted but, at the same time, often criticised being considered a surreptitious instrument of hegemonic political power. This conference aims at highlighting the different meanings the concept acquired in different contexts and different times. In particular, the analysis of the concept will be conducted from an interdisciplinary perspective which will merge philosophy, history of political and legal thought, history of literature and political science, by tracing the history of this idea and practice from the early modern period up to the modern debate, focusing on questions such as pluralism and multiculturalism. Abstracts are due by *1 March 2015*. EVENT AND WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS Difference that makes no Difference: The Non-Performativity of Intersectionality and Diversity <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> * FRCPS in cooperation with the Women’s Network, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” Goethe University Frankfurt and Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Goethe University Frankfurt, 5 February 2015* Despite the hype of intersectionality and diversity, they remain predominantly symbolic commitments in academic discourses and institutional practices. The rhetoric of diversity is employed to deflect charges of racism and hetero/sexism, even as there is systematic resistance against the institutionalization of diversity. Despite commitments to “do diversity” and to be diverse, discourses and institutions sustain the status quo through Eurocentric and Androcentric academic curricula and discriminatory hiring practices. The aim of this workshop is to explore the ideological function of diversity and intersectionality as legitimizing performance indicators in academic discourses and institutions. Participation is free of charge. Please register for the workshop at: frcps.mail [at] googlemail.com Greynog Ideas Lab IV <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> * Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Mid Wales UK, 13-18 July 2015* Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas Lab is a unique opportunity for graduate students and academics working in international politics from a range of critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions to re-examine their own work and meet new people in an open space for thinking and generating new ideas. It offers guest professor seminars, round table discussions, methodology workshops and one-to-one tutorials with the guest professors. Provisionally, our guest professors for 2015 are: Jenny Edkins (Aberystwyth), Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar), Sam Okoth Opondo (Vassar), Michael Shapiro (Hawaii), Erzsebet Strausz (Warwick), Annick T. R. Wibben (San Francisco), Rob Walker (Victoria), Marysia Zalewski (Aberdeen) and Andreja Zevnik (Manchester). There is a reduced rate for bookings received before 30 January. Colonialism, Orientalism and the Jews: The Role of Gender and Postcolonial Studies Approaches <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, 24-26 June 2015* The workshop will explore the possibility of applying perspectives developed in the context of Gender and Postcolonial Studies to Jewish Cultural Studies and Studies in Antisemitism with a special emphasis on the orientalization of Jews and Jewish self-orientalization. In this workshop we wish to offer the framework for a discussion of ways in which these recently developed theoretical and methodological approaches, primarily in Postcolonial Studies and in its historically entangled relation to the Study of Antisemitism, may be made productive for an investigation of “Colonialism, Orientalism and the Jews.” Special attention will be given to the ways in which Jewish self-orientalization challenges suggestions by Said and others that orientalism is nothing more than a patronizing attitude and a “strange, secret sharer” of Western antisemitism. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Steven Aschheim, Ivan Kalmar, Derek Penslar CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Call for Book Chapters: Ecofeminist Intersections <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> *Editor: D. A. Vakoch (California Institute of Integral Studies)* This new book project explores the manifold ways that ecofeminism has been used across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to such fields as history, philosophy, religious studies, women’s studies, literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, and political science. We invite proposals for chapters that explicitly address the intersections between ecofeminism and other approaches or perspectives (for example, posthumanism, postcolonial studies, or queer studies). We especially encourage authors to highlight the unique contributions that ecofeminism, in combination with other approaches, brings to their primary discipline. Abstracts are due * 1 March 1 2015*. Special Issue of ‘Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society’: Gender, Sexuality & Decolonization <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> * Guest Editor: Karyn Recollet (University of Toronto)* This issue invites us to consider both the centrality of gender and sexual violence to colonization, but also, relatedly, the centrality of gender and sexual justice to decolonization. Too often these issues have been seen as peripheral to the larger struggles against colonialism, too often cis-heteropatriarchal normativity has been justified in the name of decolonization. To us, it seems impossible to discuss Indigenous sovereignty without a discussion of body sovereignty. It seems impossible to discuss environmental justice without connecting the violence against the earth to the violences against our bodies, particularly the bodies of women, Two Spirit, queer, transgender and others who fall beyond and in resistance to the male cis-heteropatriarchal norms of colonial society. Not only do these bodies bear the brunt of colonial violence, they also embody, create and sustain the theories, movements, and creative actions that resist it. We are interested in papers that connect theoretical discussions with active decolonization work by engaging the intersections of theory and practice. Abstracts are due by *16 March 2015*. Special issue of Surveillance & Society: Race, Ethnicity and Surveillance <http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/s…> * Editors: Simone Browne (University of Texas at Austin), Ronak K. Kapadia (University of Illinois at Chicago) Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University) * Since its emergence, surveillance studies has been concerned with how and why populations are tracked, profiled, policed and governed at borders, in cities, at airports, in public and private spaces, in databases, through biometrics, CCTV, identification documents, social media and other technologies. Also explored are the many ways that those who are subject to surveillance adopt, endorse, invite, subvert, resist, innovate, limit, comply with and monitor that very surveillance. As an interdisciplinary field of study the questions that shape surveillance studies center on the management of everyday and exceptional life – personal data, privacy, security, and terrorism, for example. While “race” and “ethnicity” are terms often found in indexes of many of the recent edited collections and special journal issues dedicated to the study of surveillance, limited attention is paid to race and ethnicity as key sites through which surveillance is enacted. This special issue is guided by the following question: How can centering race and/or ethnicity as categories of analysis help social theorists, artists, scholars and researchers to understand surveillance? We seek papers that explore the relationship between surveillance and configurations of race and ethnicity. We encourage contributions that theorize race and ethnicity as operating in an interlocking manner with gender, sexuality, dis/ability, class, religion, location and other categories of identity. Papers that critically and creatively interrogate oppression, inequalities, power and resistance would be especially welcome.. Submissions are due by *1 May 2015*. 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Full Circle Foundation Application | Antrag neu aufsetzen | wer macht mit | Anfrage um Neu-Formulierungen und Klärungen
by Josef Kreitmayer 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Hallo liebe TransforMap contributors, bei der Degrowth Konferenz ist ein Kontakt von Silke zu John Fellows von der Full Circle Foundation entstanden. Wir wurden daraufhin eingeladen, eine erste Projektskizze zu schreiben. Der Schwerpunkt der Stiftung sind in unserem Kontext tiefgreifende Nachhaltigkeits- und Natur/Mensch/Ganzheits-Bewusstseins-Entwicklungen. Ich habe in einem Schnelldurchlauf, mit Verabsäumung breiterer Klärung und ohne Feedback-Prozesse schnell einen Entwurf zusammengeschrieben und übermittelt. Die ursprüngliche Urgenz hat sich mittlerweile relativiert, und wir haben eine Anfrage bekommen, die Projektskizze zu überarbeiten und insbesondere einige Schlüssel-Informationen zu TransforMap generell zu überarbeiten. Für die Teilnehmenden in Potsdam ist auch gleich ersichtlich, dass meine Skizze nicht mehr (ursprünglich auch in einigen Punkten nicht), dem aktuellen Entwicklungen der näheren Zukunft entspricht, und auch Projekt-Inhaltlich Abänderung bedarf. Langen Schreibens kurzer Sinn: Wer möchte daran mitwirken, den Antrag, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die im Dokument vermerkten Fragen von John Fellows zu überarbeiten? Möchte jemand eine koordinierende Rolle dafür übernehmen? Bitte tragt euch im unten angeführten Trello Board ein. Ich unterstütze gerne mit Rand-Informationen, falls es da etwas braucht, kann aber aktuell keine Koordinations-Funktion übernehmen. Wesentliche Arbeits-Instrumente und Kommunikations-Kanäle sind hier verlinkt: ursprünglicher Antrag mit Anmerkungen vom Zuständigen der Stiftung, John Fellows: https://docs.google.com/a/getactive.org/document/d/1W_VdhNsqCZF99JlqFFBQflL… für kurze Arbeitsaufgaben-Klärung und Auflistung der Mitwirkenden https://trello.com/c/nnShdfHA/8-draft-response-application-to-john-fellows-… für längere Diskurs-Stränge (bitte Themen-Vermengung vermeiden) http://discourse.transformap.co/c/funding/full-circle ganz liebe Grüße : ) Josef Mag. Josef Kreitmayer E j(a)getactive.org T 0699/81 634 148 www.getactive.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefkreitmayer *unseren nächsten Veranstaltungen:* * Gutes Leben für Alle Konferenz, 20. - 22. Februar 2015, http://www.guteslebenfueralle.org/ * Visionsschmiede, 7. und 8. März 2015 * Y E S - Young Eco Startups, 20. - 22. März 2015 * Tiefenökologie Open Space 2015, 23. - 25. April 2015 * Transition Forum Österreich, 15. - 17. Mai 2015 weitere Information & Anmeldung auf www.getactive.org

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invitation to polls for funding (hamsters) and cooperating systems (ants) circles
by Adrien Labaeye 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Dear all, For those interested, I would like to see two meetings happening rather quickly. The Funding circle meeting, aka meeting of the *hamsters*. The scope of this circle is on things related to money and resources (especially proposals). *Those wanting to commit to this circle please answer the poll by the end of the week and contribute to the agenda:* http://discourse.transformap.co/t/regular-meetings-agendas-polls-pads/148 The Cooperating systems (also collaborative development - there is dissent regarding the name) circle, aka the meeting of the *ants*. The scope of this circle is on the communication (email verteiler, trello, website...) and working infrastructure (circle and more). *Those wanting to commit to this circle, please answer the poll by the end of the week **and contribute to the agenda**:* http://discourse.transformap.co/t/meetings-pads-polls-agendas-etc/149 As you see I propose to gather relevant links (pads, polls) on those pages. Indeed, the Discourse platform allows to pin topics so they appear on thop of the discussion category making it very easy to find all important links. Looking forward to those first meetings! Herzliche Grüsse, -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Working structure and Animal Workshops
by Adrien Labaeye 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hi everybody, I have written up in the wiki our decision on the working structure. https://wiki.14mmm.org/Self_Organization/ I also made the list of the different workshops on the wiki with descriptions for each: https://wiki.14mmm.org/ We had not chosen a definite wording for the teams/groups/workshops. I proposed "workshops" as it was mentionned. Sets of animal populate those workshops... *Feel free improve the text, complete what's missing. * *Add your name and your contact in the workshops where you want to contribute! * The TransforMap Workshops (open to volunteers!) - Collaborative Development - aka the ants <https://wiki.14mmm.org/Collaborative_Development_-_aka_the_ants/> - Taxonomy and test mapping <https://wiki.14mmm.org/Taxonomy_and_test_mapping/> - aka the badgers - Technology - aka the monkeys <https://wiki.14mmm.org/Technology_-_aka_the_monkeys/> - Funding - aka the hamsters <https://wiki.14mmm.org/Funding_-_aka_the_hamsters/> - Community Building and local chapters <https://wiki.14mmm.org/Community_Building_and_local_chapters/> - aka the bees - Communications <https://wiki.14mmm.org/Communications/> - aka the wood peckers Cheers, -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Fwd: CHEST Call 3 Application Results
by Josef Kreitmayer 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

ok, jetzt wirds ernst. wir sind in der CHEST Auswahlrunde. Siehe unten. Daumen drücken! große Freude, gemischt mit etwas Ehrfurcht vor uns, der Möglichkeit und allem was da kommen mag. Vielleicht werden wir über den weiteren Auswahlprozess erfolgreich, finanziert und im Vorankommen institutionell und finanziell dadurch unterstützt. Vielleicht ist es ein kurzer Höhenflug, und dann gehen wir mit auf anderen der vielfältigen grmeinsamen Wege weiter. Jedenfalls. Es ist großartig! Seit der Genialität von Potsdam kann ich als einer aus dem Team der Hamster : ) sagen: Wow, wir sind, TransforMap ist, SUPER. : ) Josef Mag. Josef Kreitmayer | j(a)getactive.org | 0 (043) 699 8163 4148 ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Von: <call3(a)chest-project.eu> Datum: 20.01.2015 17:52 Betreff: CHEST Call 3 Application Results An: <j(a)getactive.org> Cc: *Dear Applicant* *Project Title*: Transformap Thank you for submitting your application for funding to the CHEST Project (Call 3). The assessment process as outlined in the ‘Guidelines for Applicants’ is now complete and we are pleased to advise that your submission has been favourably evaluated and will now be invited to enter the contract negotiation process for the conclusion of a Grant Agreement. Please note that this notification is not a formal commitment to sign the Grant Agreement with your organisation. Financial support depends on the satisfactory conclusion of the negotiation process, the CHEST partners selection decision and the completion of all related procedures. Any costs incurred before the official project start date will be at your own cost and will not be eligible for funding. *Next steps* You must confirm that you accept this conditional offer of funding with two weeks of receipt of this email by replying to call3(a)chest-project.eu After receiving this confirmation you will be sent full details of the administrative process that must be completed before the Grant Agreement is sent to your organisation. The administrative process includes legal validation of your entity, provision to the Chest consortium of your bank details and review and clarification of your project budget and workplan. *Feedback* Feedback from the assessment will be sent to you in a separate document within two weeks. Feedback is based on the written comments of the independent assessors who reviewed and assessed your application. This feedback is intended to be constructive *Publicising your Project* As outlined in the Guidelines for Applicants, the CHEST Project Partners may publicise the results of the competition on the CHEST website with a short description of the ideas supported. The CHEST Project Partners may also include reference to some of the successful applications and their progress in the course of the funding period in any dissemination material related to the project such as the CHEST website or future press releases. In accepting this funding you are agreeing to our use of the public description of your project that you have already provided for publicity purposes. If you have any questions regarding the above please email call3(a)chest-project.eu and we will respond accordingly Your Sincerely The CHEST Project Team ------------------------------

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Security Update : ownCloud + Ethercalc
by allmende.io 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Dear MMM, I have to inform you that two sites you are regularly using have been upgraded to support secure connections only. Most links will be forwarded, but there are occasions that require your manual interruption: (1) If installed, your ownCloud Client will fail to connect. Please seek its notification icon, click it to open the synchronization client and edit your account to meet the new URL at https://datengarten.allmende.io (2) If you open the OSM-Taxonomie and other spreadsheets on our Ethercalc from your bookmarks or auto-suggestions, you may encounter an empty sheet. (For the tech people: This happens because the application is cached offline in the browser and tries to fetch the tablie via WebSockets, which doesn't implement redirects.) To circumvent this behaviour, just use the secured address, like https://calc.allmende.io/OSM-Taxonomie New visitors that click on already existing links will not experience this behaviour and will be redirected to the secure path, instead. Thanks for your considerations, Your allmende.io one-person-team.

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Fwd: Call for papers: Critical Geographies of the Sharing Economy
by Dominik Reusser 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

Liebe alle, den folgenden Call bitte weiter verbreiten. wollen wir da transformap vorstellen und in eine geographische Perspektive setzen? LG Dominik Call for papers for the *RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2015*, University of Exeter, 2-4 September 2015 *Critical geographies of the sharing economy* The sharing economy is emerging as a powerful force for restructuring post-recession economies, for mitigating climate change through the sustainable (re-)use of resources, and for experimenting with non-capitalistic practices in which ownership and markets are replaced by access, collaborative consumption and commoning. The sharing economy is also becoming a new venue for venture capital investments, and has been accused of disrupting old industries by devolving further any legal, fiscal and social responsibilities to low-paid and unregulated â€œmicro-entrepreneursâ€� who are induced to monetize personal assets and to compete against each other through self-branding. The aim of the session is to address this controversy from a geographical perspective, which is still missing. Sharing is indeed embedded in interpersonal relationships and based upon a variety of relational proximities which are needed to create links, trust, and reciprocity among people who share. These networks have a peculiar spatiality, may be more or the less inclusive, diverse, autonomous, â€˜alternativeâ€™, and require the social infrastructure which is typical of cohesive communities and of densely urbanized areas. The problem is that community-based initiatives in the field often strive to survive and to up-scale. Internet-based intermediaries are indeed necessary to provide what self-organized networks rarely guarantee: efficient platforms, reputation systems and the critical mass of connections which are needed to reduce transaction costs and risks. These ICT platforms are increasingly controlled by big corporations which mobilize an array of benign geographical imaginaries - communitarism, autonomy, intimacy, reciprocity, authenticity, sustainability, etc. - for legitimising a business model that may be regarded as the last frontier of post-fordism, and as the advent of a libertarian and purely informational capitalism in which control over social networks became a major source of oligopolistic power. We invite papers which deal with the bright as well as dark side of this emerging phenomenon, and in particular: - The sharing economy and the spatiality of collaborative networks - The sharing economy and the geographies of community - The sharing economy and the diverse economies - The sharing economy and the reconfiguration of work and labour relations - The sharing economy and the extending geographies of outsourcing - The sharing economy and creative destruction - The sharing economy and (de)monetization - The sharing economy and the marketing of the self - The sharing economy and material/immaterial internet geographies - The sharing economy and libertarian/informational capitalism The session is sponsored by the *Economic Geography Research Group * If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of max 250 words by *10 February 2015 *to the *session convenors*: Filippo Celata, University of Rome La Sapienza, filippo.celata(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:filippo.celata@uniroma1.it>, and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, rriberaf(a)uoc.edu <mailto:rriberaf@uoc.edu> ciao, Filippo

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Einladung nächste Telko Taxonomiegruppe; Entscheidungen über SELF DESCRIPTION OF COMMUNITIES
by Silke Helfrich 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Liebe badgers (so heißt neuerdings die Taxonomiegruppe:-) und solche, die es werden wollen! nach dem Durchbruch zur Vorgehensweise während unseres Potsdam Treffens, möchte ich Euch zur nächsten Telko einladen. Einziger Tagesordnungspunkt ist die zweite Kategoriengruppe unserer Taxonomie: SELFDESCRIPTION OF COMMUNITIES (bisher: "politische Identität") http://calc.allmende.io/OSM-Taxonomie Ich denke, dass es 90 min dauern wird, da wir alle bisher aufgelisteten communities einmal durchgehen müssen. Wichtig ist: DASS ES ZU MÖGLICHST ALLEN EINE KLARE BESCHREIBUNG GIBT (links, Kriterienkataloge usw. bitte ins Etherpad einfügen! Am besten das tut jede*r für die community, der er/sie sich am nächsten fühlt) Das ist ganz wichtig, damit wir auf dieser Basis diskutieren und das weitere Verfahren entscheiden können. Es ist zudem wichtig, für die geplante OSM Einreichung, die bei diesen Begriffen nicht einfach werden wird. Bitte dudelt mit (ich habe vorerst nur wenige Termine drin, und nur solche, die mir die Teilnahme auch von Mexiko aus ermöglichen. Zeit zum dudlen: 3 TAGE! (damit ich noch die Telko einrichten und einberufen kann) https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/Taxonomie-Gruppe_Self-description_of_commun… Lieber Gruß Silke

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Metamaps
by Silke Helfrich 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Dear all, does anyone - especially from the education-communities (some commoning-list members are acknowledged)- knows this, is in touch, knows about the prospects/ dynamics or has any concrete experience in using meta-map tools for mapping? http://metamaps.cc/ Please let me know. Btw; I love their icons @ Transformappers; this could be interesting for us. https://twitter.com/metamapps/status/540921942149038080/photo/1 All the best Silke

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Open Space in Potsdam | Hat wer ein Lenovo Ladekabel zu viel mitgenommen? : )
by Josef Kreitmayer 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Hallo : ) ihr wunderbaren Menschen, die Schlüssel-Frage von Giuliana ist ja schon wunderbar geklärt. Große Freude. Hat jemand evtl. mein Lenovo Ladekabel zuviel eingepackt? ganz liebe Grüß : ) josef Mag. Josef Kreitmayer E j(a)getactive.org T 0699/81 634 148 www.getactive.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefkreitmayer *unseren nächsten Veranstaltungen:* * Gutes Leben für Alle Konferenz, 20. - 22. Februar 2015, http://www.guteslebenfueralle.org/ * Visionsschmiede, 7. und 8. März 2015 * Y E S - Young Eco Startups, 20. - 22. März 2015 * Tiefenökologie Open Space 2015, 23. - 25. April 2015 weitere Information & Anmeldung auf www.getactive.org

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