No âmbito dos Encontros por uma Primavera Agroecológica, promovidos pelo GAIA entre os meses de Março e Abril de 2021, organizei uma sessão intitulada «Alimento para o Pensamento», que juntou à conversa diferentes projectos editoriais agroecológicos de Portugal e Espanha. Acolhida pela associação cultural e livraria independente Gato Vadio, a …
TRANSECO: Tertulias and documentary screenings to transform the economy Every Thursday from November 7th to December 5th, 2019 Loction: Gato Vadio bookstore/cultural association | Facebook Event [Original Portuguese version below] This initiative, integrated in the Cycle of Reflections on Alternative Socioeconomic Practices of the Institute of Sociology of the University …
The Catalan sociologist and economist Jordi Estivill unveils the beginnings of the social economy in Portugal, through the analysis of a 19th-century magazine from Porto.
People, tools, discourse: the communicative ecology of the “transformative” economies. Notes on communication for the social solidarity economy and the commons, following WSFTE’s first meeting in BCN.
How a former alternative food exchange group from Porto practicing solidarity economy triggered the present research on the challenges of sustaining the community’s governance of shared resources.
This article [in Portuguese] was originally published in Jornal Mapa no. 23, following my participation in the preparatory meeting of the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies.
Communication is one of the main factors affecting the success or fragility of commons-oriented initiatives, deeply affecting them in terms of organization, decision-making, participation, sustainability and impact.
