[OKFN-CH] Commons in a "Glocal" World - 2016 - Tätigkeiten - SGAS Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien

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Dienstag 10. Mai 2016 — Freitag 13. Mai 2016 — Bern
Konferenz: Commons in a “Glocal” World: Global Connections and Local
Responses

Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern

Research on the commons deals either with the development of institutions
for the management of the commons, or with issues related to global change.
While the latter mainly focuses on drivers and effects of global expansion
of capitalist modes of production, consumption, and societal reproduction,
research on institutions for the management of the commons deals with
collective action and the effects and reactions within local action arenas.
However, the entangled institutional processes through which global and
local arenas – referred to as “glocal” – interlock are not yet addressed in
a systematic way.

Europe has been a major driver of “glocal” processes. Therefore, the 4th
Regional European Meeting of the IASC is devoted to global connections and
local responses. It provides a space to advance our understanding of
ongoing “glocal” processes and to analyse historically how commons in
Europe have evolved and adapted to “glocal” changes. By integrating
political ecology with approaches of New Institutionalism and Critical
Theory in Anthropology, Human Geography, Political Science and History, we
propose to investigate the impacts of external changes on the perception
and evaluation of resources by actors related to the commons. This raises
the question of local bargaining power, ideologies and discourses, and of
the selection and crafting of institutional designs, which in turn affect
the access to common‐pool resources, as well as the distribution of
benefits related to the management of these resources.

This conference therefore aims to look at the interfaces between local and
global processes in order to bring together research arenas that have often
been kept quite separate until now. We therefore call for contributions
focussing on:

    how global players such as multinational companies and organizations
affect local governance of the commons worldwide
    the role of international law and global trade in shaping the interface
between global actors and institutionalprocesses oflocalcommons governance
    the impacts of external economic and political changes on the
perception and evaluation of resources and areas by actors related to the
commons
    local resistance and the development of political strategies countering
the transformation of collective into privateorstate‐based property rights
as a consequence of economic and politicalchanges
    the local crafting of institutional designs in global and local arenas,
and how these affect access to and distribution of natural resources and
related benefits among local to global actors using the commons
    how the encounter of global and local processes affect bargaining
power, ideologies and discourses of global and local actors in governing
sustainability trade‐offs.

We especially welcome contributions that aim to address the above mentioned
themes through novel forms of integrating theoretical approaches. In
addition, the focus of the conference will be on a dialogue among
representatives of different academic disciplines (e.g. geography, social
anthropology, history, development studies, economics, political science,
and law) and between academics and non‐academic actors (e.g. practitioners,
businessrepresentatives, policymakers, or NGOs).

http://www.sagw.ch/de/africa/taetigkeiten/2016/Commons-in-a--Glocal--World.html
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