On 29 March 1:30 PM, Tine De Moor gave a lecture with the title ‘Social enterprises in the Netherlands. Towards more institutional diversity?’ at HEC Liège Management School.
Open seminar talk on credit cooperatives by Lakshmi A.J.
On 29 February, 11AM (CET) the guest speaker of our Open seminar talks series was Lakshmi A.J., who is Assistant Professor at Kerala University, department of Commerce. In her work she focuses on professionalism in co-operatives and the legal framework of credit cooperatives in India, looking at long-term developments.
Open seminar talk on polycentric energy governance by Daniel Petrovics
On 22 March, 11AM (CET) the guest speaker of our Open seminar talks series was Daniel Petrovics (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam). He presented a paper on polycentric governance and the conditions under which energy communities scale.
Opinion article: Gemeenteraadsverkiezingen: herkansing voor de erkenning van de actieve burger?
In een opinieartikel in de Volkskrant riepen Tine De Moor en Ton Duffhues (Rotterdam School of Management) lokale overheden op om in gesprek te gaan met actieve burgers die in hun eigen omgeving uitdagingen op het gebied van wonen, zorg, energie, voedsel en natuur aanpakken. Lees het hele artikel, inclusief de voorbeelden van Herenboerderij Wenumseveld, Austerlitz Zorgt en energiecoöperatie Sterk op Stroom op de website van De Volkskrant.
Article: The feasibility of platform cooperatives in the gig economy
Are platform cooperatives feasible alternatives to investor-owned gig economy platforms, such as Uber and Deliveroo? In which sectors does the cooperative model work – and for which kind of gig workers is a platform co-op more challenging? Read the analysis by Damion Bunders, Martijn Arets, Koen Frenken and Tine De Moor, ‘The feasibility of platform cooperatives in the gig economy’, which is freely available here.
Rules and sanctions in long-lasting fishery cooperatives, Double open seminar talk by Florian Grisel and Grant Halliday
On 9 March, research team Institutions for Collective Action had a double open seminar. Grant Halliday, historian and research intern at RSM Erasmus University, gave an insight into the development of rules and sanctions in medieval and early-modern fishery cooperatives in Spain. Dr. Florian Grisel, associate professor at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, complemented Halliday’s findings with a presentation about another fishery cooperative, the Prud’homie de Pêche of Marseille. In the subsequent discussion, the attendants considered the existence of norms versus formal legal structures, as well as the continuation of such organizations over centuries.
Organizing the enterprise as a common, open seminar talk by Kristel Maasen (ULB)
On 15 February Kristel Maasen, sociologist at Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) presented a summary of her PhD dissertation in our Open Seminar. Drawing from the theory of the commons and commoning, Maasen shows how worker-organized cooperatives are organized in commons. Workers invest in creating and maintaining a we-relation through task selection, sharing of organisational power, commitment to the project and a focus on direct communication. Distinct from a managerial logic, the principles used by workers correspond to the logic of commons organising in that they produce and reproduce community.
Intellectual property rights for the knowledge of indigenous peoples, open seminar talk by Camille Meyer (UTC)
On Tuesday 8 February, Dr. Camille Meyer (University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business) presented a seminar on the ownership of biological knowledge originally held by indigenous communities. After demonstrating that such knowledge was released to the public domain by colonial botanists, he presented three case studies showing that international, national and local efforts have been made for such resources to be “recommonized” by local communities. In such cases, indigenous communities reclaim ownership of their traditional knowledge by establishing intellectual property rights on biological knowledge.
Livecast ‘Het kan wel!’ (Dutch due to scope)
Op 15 februari 9:30 organiseerde De Omslag een livecast vanuit Pakhuis De Zwijger onder de titel ‘Het kan wel!’ Deskundigen met diverse achtergronden gingen met elkaar in gesprek over het recht op gelijke behandeling en gelijkwaardig meedoen van mensen met een beperking of chronische aandoening, die nu soms aan de kant staan terwijl ze graag willen werken. Met onder meer Agnes Jongerius, Frank Kalshoven, Carol Gribnau en Tine De Moor. The recordings can be found here.
Launch of the CollectieveKracht platform for citizen cooperatives
How do scientists use their knowledge to solve problems faced by today’s citizen collectives? How do policy makers reflect on the collectives’ challenges? And where do financiers come into the picture? The answers to these questions and more were discussed in a livecast on 11 February 2022. This event launched a new, transdisciplinary knowledge exchange platform for citizen collectives: CollectieveKracht.