Book presentation and discussion with author Manuela Zechner – On care, commons and municipalism

Friday, March 18, 2022 / 19:30
Errant Bodies studio
Cotheniusstrasse 6, 10407 Berlin

The publication Commoning Care & Collective Power (published by transversal texts) traces the twin genealogies of childcare commons and the micropolitics of municipalism in Barcelona. It shows how grassroots movements engaged new institutional experiments after Spain’s 15M movement, marked by struggles for social reproduction and a new feminist politics, leading towards commons municipalisms. Interested in both struggles for and to care, this book looks across subjective and collective processes. Interdependence and autonomy, care and micropolitics, building power and commons, neighbourhood and city: those are some of the terms brought into resonant tension. Midwives, mothers, carers and councillors prefigure schools and cities of care, as this book turns to explore how institutions are themselves sites of struggles to care. This book’s interweaving of concepts and experiences traces a powerful cycle of collective learning, yielding new articulations between the commons and the public, and channeling new feminist forces.

Manuela Zechner is a researcher and facilitator working across the social movements, academia and the arts. She currently works on&with struggles across ecology and care, within the MovE research project based at Jena University, as co-producer of the Earthcare Fieldcast, and as part of the Common Ecologies School that is launching in spring 2022. She just published 'Commoning Care & Collective Power' with transversal texts and runs the Future Archive project since 2005.

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