[Reader-list] Seminar Invite Nov 30th - Is there an essential unity between the real and the virtual ?

[OISHIK SIRCAR]

Dear Friends,

CACIM under its 'CACIM MUltilogues' Series invites you to an interesting
discussion on *an exploration of theoretical and activist convergences
between place-based or ecological commons and the information commons* on
Friday, November 30th 2007 from 6 pm onwards at YMCA International Guest
House. Kindly join us for the session and also spread the word around about
the event who would be an active participant in such an exchange. Please do
print out the attached note and pin it up in your organisations.

 Look forward to meeting you at the meeting.

Regards

Jai / Madhuresh / Aryan and other members of CACIM.

*CACIM Multilogues*

* *

*ALL ARE WELCOME !*

*I**s there an essential unity *

*between the real and the virtual ?*



*An exploration of theoretical and activist convergences between place-based
or ecological commons and the information commons***

* *

*S**hiri ** P**asternak* in discussion with *N**ishant*



On



*6–8 pm**, **Friday November 30 2007** *



@



Conference Room

*YMCA Tourist Hostel*

Jaisingh Road, Off Sansad Marg (near Jantar Mantar)

New Delhi 110 001



*Shiri Pasternak* is a Toronto-based writer and activist, who researches and
campaigns on issues related to food sovereignty, intellectual property, and
the commons.



*Nishant *is a Delhi based geek who dabbles with literature, politics,
history, films, radio, publishing, web journalism and everything that's out
there to experiment with but likes to call himself a journalist.



*Discussion Brief :* *This engagement will over-view different kinds of
theoretical and activist convergences between place-based or ecological
commons and information commons. The introduction of new forms of property
has meant new forms of social control enforced by police, surveillance, and
the law. In response to the "enclosures" of knowledge, land, culture, public
services and urban space, a call for the reemergence of "the commons" has
rang out in social justice movements. But what is the relationship between
these diverse calls for the "commons"? In order to answer this question, we
must understand three waves of global enclosure that structure this moment:
the European enclosures, colonialism, and the expansion of intellectual
property rights. A major underlying force of these enclosures is the process
of primitive accumulation, which also distinguishes a social justice
analysis of the commons from the cooptation of the "commons" and
"information commons" by the World Bank and development agencies rising in
prevalence around the world and threatening to usurp the radical political
content of our work. Using **Canada** as a case study for this analysis,
this presentation will offer several examples of convergences between
information and ecological commons and open a discussion on which way
forward we must go.*



*Write back to Madhuresh / Jai @ cacim at cacim.net or Phone +91 11 4155 1521 *

CACIM, A-3, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024 India

www.cacim.net / www.openspaceforum.net




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OISHIK SIRCAR

Fellow in Reproductive & Sexual Health and Women's Rights
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

60 Harbord Street
Room 016 B
Toronto, ON M5S 3L1

oishiksircar at gmail.com
oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca

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