Jin-jiyan-azadi. Matristic culture and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava

Piccardi, Eleonora Gea; Barca, Stefania

doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01099-x

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“…Post-development studies focused initially on the deconstruction of both the dominant and the alternatives of development discourses, moving on to studying alternatives to development imagined––and sometimes enacted and materialized––by social movements, peasant organizations or indigenous peoples as forms of resistance to the extractivist, neocolonial and patriarchal project of modern capitalism (Franzen 2022 , this issue; Gudynas 2012 ; Piccardi and Barca 2022 , this issue; Svampa 2012 ). The current debate in Latin America and other regions of the world is focused on post-development and its articulation with the study of different alternatives to development as pluriversal paths; for example, projects such as post-extractivism, post-growth, post-patriarchy, post-colonialism, or transmodernity (Escobar 2012 ; Kaul et al 2022 , this issue; Naylor 2022 , this issue).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some empirical examples found through collective strategies or initiatives that are aimed at the transformation and improvement of grassroots communities are the solidarity exchanges in the autonomous rebel zones of Mexico, the matristic culture in Rojava, Buen Vivir as a bottom-up transformation based on indigenous worldviews, and the itinerant schools of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, or La Via Campesina (Barbosa 2013 ; Barkin 2018 ; Lang 2022 , this issue; Piccardi and Barca 2022 , this issue). Alternatives to development are characterized by several features, e.g., the suppression of hierarchies and anti-patriarchalism, conviviality and communality, care for life at the center, spirit of sufficiency and simplicity, reciprocity and solidarity, autonomy through self-government, direct participation, and defense of territory to live well (Barkin 2019 ; Esteva 2002 , 2014 ; Kothari et al 2019a ; Martínez-Luna 2016 ; Schöneberg et al 2022 , this issue).…”

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Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Maldonado-Villalpando

Paneque-Gálvez

Demaria

et al. 2022

Sustain Sci

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The social and environmental failure of successive Western development models imposed on the global South has led local communities to pursue alternatives to development. Such alternatives seek radical societal transformations that require the production of new knowledge, practices, technologies, and institutions that are effective to achieve more just and sustainable societies. We may think of such a production as innovation driven by social movements, organizations, collectives, indigenous peoples, and local communities. Innovation that is driven by such grassroots groups has been theorized in the academic literature as “grassroots innovation”. However, research on alternatives to development has rarely examined innovation using grassroots innovation as an analytical framework. Here, we assess how grassroots innovation may contribute to building alternatives to development using Zapatismo in Chiapas (Mexico) as a case study. We focus on grassroots innovation in autonomous Zapatista education because this alternative to formal education plays a vital role in knowledge generation and the production of new social practices within Zapatista communities, which underpin the radical societal transformation being built by Zapatismo. We reviewed the academic literature on grassroots innovation as well as gray literature and audiovisual media on Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education. We also conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a Zapatista community and its school. We found innovative educational, pedagogical, and teaching–learning practices based on the (re)production of knowledge and learning, which are not limited to the classroom but linked to all the activities of Zapatistas. Our findings suggest that innovation self-realized by Zapatistas plays a key role on the everyday construction of Zapatismo. Therefore, we argue that a specific theoretical framework of grassroots innovation for the pluriverse, based on empirical work carried out in different alternatives to development, is an urgent task that will contribute to a better understanding of how such alternatives grassroots groups imagine, design, and build, particularly across the global South.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Grassroots Innovation Post-developmen...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Maldonado-Villalpando

Paneque-Gálvez

Demaria

et al. 2022

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“…Interestingly, in both notable exceptions to the global political orderthe Zapatista autonomous areas in Chiapas, Mexico (Anderson & Springer, 2018;Maldonado-Villalpando, Paneque-Gálvez, Demaria, & Napoletano, 2022) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or Rojava (Dirik, 2022;Piccardi & Barca, 2022) the people place environmental protection and justice at the top of their political agenda.…”

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The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

Chater¹,

Loewenstein²

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and effectively at the level of the individual, without modifying the system in which the individual operates. We now believe this was a mistake, along with, we suspect, many colleagues in both the academic and policy communities. Results from such interventions have been disappointingly modest. But more importantly, they have guided many (though by no means all) behavioral scientists to frame policy problems in individual, not systemic, terms: to adopt what we call the “i-frame,” rather than the “s-frame.” The difference may be more consequential than i-frame advocates have realized, by deflecting attention and support away from s-frame policies. Indeed, highlighting the i-frame is a long-established objective of corporate opponents of concerted systemic action such as regulation and taxation. We illustrate our argument briefly for six policy problems, and in depth with the examples of climate change, obesity, retirement savings, and pollution from plastic waste. We argue that the most important way in which behavioral scientists can contributed to public policy is by employing their skills to develop and implement value-creating system-level change.

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“…Our experiences show that the hierarchy of values that is at the heart of money today is a reflection of our racist, sexist, classist and patriarchal social hierarchies and systems of domination: be it the invisibilisation of non-monetised forms of labour like women's work under the Spanish colony-that calls for emancipatory new forms of knowledge for "depatriarchalization" (Piccardi & Barca 2022)-or the 'German quality' of products, which acts as a front to invisibilise the exploitation and precarisation of farmers by EU and German state regulation. This form of internal colonialism which pierces through our (bodies and land) territories is a necessary step of capitalist accumulation, not as something done in a discrete period in the past, but as a feature ingrained in our everyday interactions.…”

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Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination

Cabaña

Linares²

2022

Sustain Sci

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As a reflection of our politically engaged research, this paper addresses the multiple challenges of transforming money for the emergence of the Pluriverse, arguing that practical efforts of emancipation and autonomy need to dismantle the colonial nature of our current monetary system: the flip side of the colonial state. On the one hand, we look into Chiloé, a territory marked by long-term relations of colonialism, dependency and extraction, where the arrival of monetised forms of work in extractive industries has meant the destruction of former ways of inhabiting the territory. On the other, we explore the emergence of the Circles project, in Berlin, that aims at creating a basic income from the bottom-up, whereby people in different communities issue money equally and exchange with each other without the need for state cash. More than assuming that money in itself is 'bad', we suggest that a recovery of the social and ecological fabric of life could be done through local money systems, designed and managed by the communities themselves, delivered and redistributed as a basic income. Moving to a plural monetary system based on relations of care would lead to a recovery of history as a project of collective self-determination.

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Jin-jiyan-azadi. Matristic culture and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination

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