Just read a manifesto for reclaiming the commons – definitely worth checking out here (here for pdf) – hat tip to P2P Foundation for this. This is probably one of the most significant causes around at the moment. Private property and an array of public policies (all enforced by government) is no substitute for for [...]
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private property, the commons and post-statism
Posted in anarchy, democracy, justice, social change, the State, the commons on December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
economics, state, power, the people, oppression and transgression
Posted in anarchy, community development, complexity, democracy, environment/ecology, justice, power, questioning development, social change, the State on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently revisited the idea of anarcho-syndicalism and am coming to the conclusion that I have a good deal of affinity with its political and economic philosophy. An ongoing critique of (a certain kind of) community development that I am trying to piece together seems to be leading to many anarcho-syndicalist conclusions. Is that perhaps [...]
Monday & Tuesday: learning from drama and women
Posted in action research, co-creation, delwara, learning, social change on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday and Tuesday were spent in Delwara, mainly working with members of the women’s group and some women’s mohalla level representatives preparing plays on stories of change. Three mohalla (neighbourhood) committees had come together – all of them amongst the poorest and traditionally most excluded sections of society: the Bhil tribals, the Bhoi (vegetable farmers), [...]
What I’ve been doing
Posted in action research, complexity, complexity based methods, learning, organisational change, personal ramblings, philosophy, seva mandir, social change, studying on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The way that can be described is not the absolute way…
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A sense of belonging
Posted in learning, personal ramblings, social change on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
N.B. This piece has been taken from my reflective writing journal and should be understood as tentative and incomplete
After our group session this morning [actually on October 28th], which surfaced many questions for me, I had a good long (much appreciated and really valuable) chat with one of my co-learners… It’s hard to [...]
conversations, presencing, change and more
Posted in community development, conversations, learning, living systems, organisational change, seva mandir, social change, the source on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I had been talking about social objects – the things that give us a reason to be in a relationship with others – and how they are critical elements in the process of social transformation. Now there’s a kind of magic that takes place in that fuzzy area where we interact around [...]
social objects as medium for change – v2
Posted in co-creation, community development, social capital, social change, social objects on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After writing that last post, I came up with a slightly more elaborate diagram for thinking about social objects and how they fit into the social change process that Seva Mandir is trying to bring about… It’s a skill I’m trying to develop (the diagramming that is) ;p
There are still a lot of question marks [...]
A new line of inquiry: social objects as medium for change
Posted in co-creation, community development, conversations, seva mandir, social change, social objects on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been thinking about social objects (a la Hugh of gaping void) for a while now – particularly in the context of the kind of work that Seva Mandir is involved in – i.e. ‘community development’.
“The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to [...]
social capital – possibility is in our hands
Posted in collaboration, community development, delwara, social capital, social change, the source on August 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Another long-standing topic that I am finally getting around to putting on my blog… and a good follow-up for the previous blog. It struck me one day in Delwara as I found myself trying to stop two ‘community leaders’ from neighbouring communities – one a tribal (Gameti) the other a scheduled caste (Meghwal – traditionally [...]
community based organisations vs. organised communities
Posted in community development, conversations, personal ramblings, questioning development, social change on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, I’ve had this long-standing thought about working with communities… I have this notion that it’s not particularly original but all the same it strikes me as worth noting down – especially as I’m in need the middle of preparing a proposal that builds on this idea.
Most of the development discourse – and I suppose [...]
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