7th Annual World Commons Week

The World Commons Week (WCW) is an annual celebration of commons research and practice across the globe instituted since 2018 and led by the IASC. This year too we have an exciting series of keynote webinars supplemented with events commemorating the week in different parts of the globe all centred on “Emerging Regional Perspectives around commons”! This year’s keynotes will also form the basis of a panel on the same theme within IASC 2025 to be held in Amherst. Join us Dec 1-10th to be part of this celebration across the commons community through the various talks listed below.

• Dec 2nd 2024, 10:00 EST – IASC North America keynote by Prof. Mez Baker-Medard (Middlebury College) on Feminist conservation: paradox or paragon.
  Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87419241275?pwd=5RuQ6njdBXEpW5QO9GdjlAQdE9XZtQ.1
• Dec 2nd 2024, 13:00 Brisbane time (14:00 AEDT, 16:00 NZ time) – IASC Oceania joint keynote by Prof. Andreas Neef (Griffith University) and Prof. Anita Latai-Niusulu (National University of Samoa) on The Significance of the Pacific Commons for Community Resilience: From Disaster Recovery to Climate Mobilities
  Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85385151371?pwd=AuQl9jwNawO7Zab8nK03vUl2ZthTTg.1
• Dec 6th 2024, 9:00 Beijing time (5th Dec, 20:00 EST) – IASC China keynote by Prof. Li Wenjun (Peking University) on Between commons and anticommons: A nested common-private interface framework
  Zoom link coming soon!
• Dec 6th 2024, 16:00, CET (10:00 EST) – IASC Europe keynote by Lisa Rail (University of Vienna) on Pastoral commons as socialized property – legal diversity and changing values in the Austrian Alps
  Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81553323642?pwd=0ZJXgVgc0Sddbsxh9MnRRw6JXJef3e.1
• Dec 9th 2024, 15:00 Brazil (13:00 EST): IASC-ECN Keynote by Leticia Costa (Universidade Federal do ABC, and IASC ECN Commons Trailblazer awardee) on Belonging and Legitimacy in a community of care: the daily negotiations at Gera Juncal Community Garden
  Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88917785672?pwd=YbbgqPiiOjnnbUREh4VjJcED2rMxa9.1
• Dec 10th 2024, 12:00pm Pretoria (05:00 am EST): IASC Africa keynote by Dr. Mathew Bukhi Mabele (University of Dodoma, Tanzania) on “The Coloniality of Forestry: Decolonial Possibilities and African Environmental Ethics”
  Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88601033204?pwd=ymOYMuIzRDgqqAuG24HfyN7VlJLxzD.1
• Dec 10th 2024: Postgraduate Programme in Territorial Planning and Management’s Seminar on the Commons organised by LabJuta (Territorial Justice Laboratory) and eco.t (Political Ecology, Planning and Territory Research Group). Brazil – in person. This event will address urban commons – collective social practices that preserve and manage shared spaces and resources in the city. We will discuss the challenges and lessons learned from applying the commons in practice, based on the experiences of social movements and their relationship with the state. Discussions will centre around how these movements build their autonomy in decision-making, ensuring support to maintain and expand these experiences of shared governance. With a lecture by Professor Dr. Iolanda Bianchi (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) From commons to public-community partnerships: lessons learned from European cities, a round table on the construction of autonomy and governance of commons by popular movements, with Antônia Ferreira Nascimento (Homeless Movement for Urban Reform) and Renato Ramos (Homeless Workers Movements – Technology Group), and the launch of the special volume of the publication Diálogos Socioambientais (Socio-environmental Dialogues) on Commons, Struggles and Territorial Planning. Speeches will be in Portuguese and Spanish. Register here.

In addition to these exciting talks, we have the following side events:

• Unsettling the Anthropos: Reworlding climate knowledge for epistemic plurality: 27th November 2024, in person, The University of Warwick with Prof. Harini Nagendra, Wren James and Justine Marchant
• Third edition of the Community Conference on the Commons 2024. Promise of the Commons Initiative, Foundation for Ecological Security, India – virtual, Dec 4-6, 2024.
  We hope you will be able to join us as part of this event. As always these keynote lectures will be recorded and uploaded on the In Common Podcast’s website.

Thank you
WCW 2024 Organisers (Hita Unnikrishnan, Kiran Singh, and Charlie Schweik)