Ángel Calle [email protected]
University of Cordoba
Institute of Sociology and Rural StudiesInstituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos (ISEC)
Universidad de Córdoba
XII Annual Conference on Territorial Intelligence, 21st-22nd November 2013, (C3IT-UHU)
Cooperative and common logics within the food and agriculture sector
Emergent phenomena
New actorsProduction and consume networksUrban agriculture15 M
LimitsClimate changePost-Fossil eraMegalopolis
LegitimaciesFood crisisPolitic disaffectionCity and Wellness
Universidad de Córdoba
Institute of Sociology and Rural StudiesInstituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos (ISEC)
Impacts that grow in the global food and agriculture system
Kilometric foodsBig distributors
Dispersed citiesUniversal architecture and tastes
Delocation of social and economic relationships Consume as an identity
Global “satisfactors”Fragile and far from the
citizens
Big chemical supplies agriculture and loss of
biodiversity
Overview of the resources management issue:The government of common goods
According to Elinor Ostrom (page 13): The collective management of resources would involve that local users have agreements on:
Limit definition,
Conflict resolution mechanisms,
Monitoring plans,
Suitable graded sanctions
And their own rules regarding other design principles
OTHER ISSUES: Self-diagnosis, bottom-up nested organizations,
¿political and cultural context?
Critic to the liberal profecies about the drama of common goods. For them:
• Nothing is sustainable without assignation and private benefit• The Government can impose rules but they are unefficient• There is no possibility of having collective economic institutions
Initiatives: More sustainable territories(Transition Towns)
Universidad de Córdoba
The post-fossil era arrives The relationship between country and city will change Forced energetic relocations and transitions
Create communities to close the circles of needs and resources
Small cities or towns: communitarian, politic and economic reorganization
Soft technologies, endogenous resourcesThe trend will be self-sufficiency
→ Political ecologism, degrowth, post-developmentCommunitarian uses
Institute of Sociology and Rural StudiesInstituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos (ISEC)
Initiatives: More sustainable territoriesAgroecology and food sovereignty
Universidad de Córdoba
Local agriculture and food systems Rethink about the essential needs from cities:
agroalimentary municipalization Public politics, social crops and planning of an
agroecologic transition
Close bottom-up circles Rosario, Havana, Montevideo: distribution of 70% vegetables:
Markets and social consume through a network of vegetable gardens Brazil: direct selling, SPG, Organizations that support local consume
Purchase Law: 30% local (and organic) for social programs Spain: 6.000 personas consume cooperatives, ¿agricultural ecologic parks?
→ Consume review; kilometric foods, rethink essential needs, participation
Institute of Sociology and Rural StudiesInstituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos (ISEC)
PROSUMERSDOMESTIC DEMOCRACY
COOPERATIVE WORKSELFMANAGEMENT
SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACE
SYSTEMS TO GUARANTEE PARTICIPATION
TERRITORY
Common Goods EconomiesSocial Markets
Employment, Economy → Human needs Network, participation → Social democratixation, access, labourEnvironmental goods→ Sustainability, TerritoryCooperative goods→ Socioeconomic institutions
Social economies and Common Goods economies
Collaborative Consume
Common Goods Economies
Communitarianuses
Market cooperatives
Supportive and caring economy
Gift economiesCooperative circulation
Pillaging economiesAutoritay circulation
SustainabilityTerritory
High metabolism
PopularPopulares(informal)
*Ostrom*Ecs Superv (Shiva)*Ecs Indígenas (Núñez)*Transition cities
*Feminist economy (Quiroga, Yayo H.)*Gift Economy*Supportive economies(Coraggio)
*Feminist breaking economies(Orozco)*Social and cooperative economies (Riech, Negri)*Local economies*Degrowth*New social cooperativism
*Caillé, French School
*Coraggio, Guerra Marques, Singer, Latin American School
Social economies and Common Goods economies
Collaborative Consume
Common Goods Economies
Communitarianuses
Market cooperatives
Supportive and caring economy
Gift economiesCooperative circulation
Pillaging economiesAuthoritarian circulation
SustainabilityTerritory
High metabolism
PopularPopulares(informal)
Activity Employment Democratization Environmental goods
Cooperative goods
Prosumers
La Tejedora, CO Social market 4 employments y 2 volunteers20 people in comissionsNetwork of producers and artisans
Assambly of 150 partners Espacio de autogestión socialRegulación consensuada de precios
Local production, mostly ecologicWork with related cooperatives
Opening of a market in the city centre. Ballroom for cultural and political activities.
Red Productores-Consumidores, CO
Comerciali-zation
Volunteers in 6 groups, organising 60 people and 20 producers
Certificación social de la cadena de comercialización según criterios de proximidad y ambientalesAsamblea
Priority to local and ecologic consumption
Availability of an exchange space
La Acequia, CO Agroecologiccooperative
1 employment Volunteer in tasks and cooperative management
Grupos que se organizan a través de una asamblea de enlace
Selfconsume circuit, ecologic production, recovery of seeds
Disponibilidad de un espacio de autogestión para circuitos de cortos de producción y consumo
Som Energía, grupos de Andalucía
Renewable energies
Partners cooperative Asamblea general, comisiones de trabajo y grupos locales de difusión
Renewable energies sources
Cooperation conditions between producers and consumers for the development of clean energies
Guifi.net, SE Telecom operator
Dinamizing nucleus, there is Foundation
Proyecto colaborativo, personas e instituciones
Open network for linkbuildin on the Internet
Goteo.org (Andalucía)
Financiation, crowdfunding
Dinamizing nucleus Participación directa en el apoyo a proyectos que se ofertan vía internet
Access to direct credits through projects on the Internet
Employment is not the same as before….
Employment is more and more:
*Dispersion: delocation, outsourcing, uncontrolled autonomy
*Increasing precarity: insecurities and anxieties in work; working poor
*Elitization: in benefits, control, unemployment; development of unsocial techonologies need for employability
*Destruction: intensive in materials, energies, territorial impacts
*Invisibilization: employment demands working in cares that remains hiden, out of social and environmental rights.
*Saturation: We buy all the time, we are connected, we relate ourselves within the market
*Dehumanization: corrosion in links, production of superfluous things and relations which don’t satisfy human needs.
Castillo y otros 2013, Sennet 2000, Orozco 2006, Sassen 2007, Riechmann 2013
Another employment
Beyond consume
Beyond employment
Beyond the neoliberal state
Beyond income
Common goods economiesDegrowth
21 hoursPromote social economies
Recognise caring works
Basic incomeSocioeconomical rights
DesmercantilizarEssential needs
How employment could be?Proposals and practices
Common goods economies are the result of:
‘SATISFACTORS’ CRISISUNDESIRABLE NEW CONTEXTS
‘Old politics’ vs new social cooperativism
Global neoliberal Economic crisis
Fragmented/ing unsustainable territorial designs
Difussion NTIC
Saturated civilization
Employment and Economy contradict welfare
Little green islands(Scale) Little
red stove(intensity)
Black holes(impact)
Croops, economies and social movements: Challenges
Ángel Calle [email protected]
Comunaria.net
Thank you!
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”
Albert Einstein
Common goods and sustainable economies