Alioscia Castronovo
Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità (DiSSGeA), Post-Doc
Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Instituto de altos estudios sociales (IDAES), Doctor en Antropologia Social, investigador asociado al CESE
Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma, DICEA - Dip. di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale, Phd in Tecnica Urbanistica - Urban Studies
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia), Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Docente
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales-CLACSO, Grupo de Trabajo, Integrante del Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO Economías populares. Mapeo teórico y práctico
Principal Investigator STARS Starting Grants 2024-2026 University of Padova, DISSGEA. Research project: “Popular economies in Latin America: urban territories and self organization in Colombia”
Docente en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotà, Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Politicas y Sociales (2023)
Doctor en en Estudios Urbanos - Ingegneria dell'Architettura e dell'Urbanistica, DICEA Università La Sapienza di Roma y en Antropologia Social por el IDAES UNSAM (cotutela, 2014-2019). Título de la tesis: " Tejer lo común en la crisis: autogestión del trabajo y conflictos urbanos en las economías populares en Buenos Aires".
Integrante del GT CLACSO "Economías Populares. Mapeo teórico y práctico" (2016 - actualmente);
Integrante del International Advisory Board Revaluing Care in the Global Economy (2022 - actualmente);
Investigador asociado al CESE - Centro de Estudios Sociales de la Economia, IDAES-UNSAM (2022 - actualmente)
Integrante del Urban Popular Economy Collective (2020 - actualmente);
Web:
GT CLACSO "Economías Populares. Mapeo teórico y práctico" https://www.mapeoecopop.com/
International Advisory Board Revaluing Care in the Global Economy https://www.revaluingcare.org/
Supervisors: Carlo Cellamare (Università La Sapienza di Roma), Veronica Gago (IDAES UNSAM), and Ferdinando Fava (Università di Padova)
Docente en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotà, Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Politicas y Sociales (2023)
Doctor en en Estudios Urbanos - Ingegneria dell'Architettura e dell'Urbanistica, DICEA Università La Sapienza di Roma y en Antropologia Social por el IDAES UNSAM (cotutela, 2014-2019). Título de la tesis: " Tejer lo común en la crisis: autogestión del trabajo y conflictos urbanos en las economías populares en Buenos Aires".
Integrante del GT CLACSO "Economías Populares. Mapeo teórico y práctico" (2016 - actualmente);
Integrante del International Advisory Board Revaluing Care in the Global Economy (2022 - actualmente);
Investigador asociado al CESE - Centro de Estudios Sociales de la Economia, IDAES-UNSAM (2022 - actualmente)
Integrante del Urban Popular Economy Collective (2020 - actualmente);
Web:
GT CLACSO "Economías Populares. Mapeo teórico y práctico" https://www.mapeoecopop.com/
International Advisory Board Revaluing Care in the Global Economy https://www.revaluingcare.org/
Supervisors: Carlo Cellamare (Università La Sapienza di Roma), Veronica Gago (IDAES UNSAM), and Ferdinando Fava (Università di Padova)
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Por lo tanto, este trabajo está articulado en distintos apartados que dan cuenta de esta trama: en el primero presentaré las dos experiencias cooperativas con las cuales he desarrollado el trabajo de campo, formulando las problemáticas y las preguntas de investigación, mientras en el segundo será explicitada la estrategia metodológica y los desafíos de la práctica etnográfica en el campo. En el siguiente capítulo, el tercero, se profundizarán las trayectorias de lucha y autogestión de la cooperativa Juana Villca, para abordar en el cuarto la reflexión sobre saberes y experiencia a partir del taller de mapeo colectivo del proceso cooperativo de la Juana Villca. En el sexto apartado se presentará la empresa recuperada 19 de Diciembre y los desafíos de la abertura de la fábrica al barrio a partir del taller de mapeo colectivo llevado adelante en el marco del proyecto Colabor. Finalmente, en las reflexiones finales, se busca dar cuenta del papel de la autoformación en los procesos de autogestión como práctica para aprender en común y espacio de elaboración estratégica colectiva.
Nel pieno della crisi globale iniziata nel 2008 sono nate in Europa diverse esperienze di autogestione produttiva basate sul recupero di imprese o fabbriche abbandonate: pur trattandosi di un fenomeno consolidato e comune in America Latina, esso costituisce invece una interessante novità per quanto riguarda lo spazio euro-mediterraneo. Con questo contributo intendiamo riflettere attorno a tali processi di lotta che riguardano tanto la trasformazione del modello di lavoro quanto la ricerca di nuove forme di organizzazione dei lavoratori, aprendo nuovi scenari di negoziazione sociale. Consideriamo tali esperienze parte integrante di quella diffusa e articolata sperimentazione di pratiche cooperative basate sull’autogestione e sul mutualismo sviluppatasi nelle città euro-mediterranee durante la crisi. Cliniche solidali autogestite, occupazioni di case, pratiche sociali diffuse di mutualismo e solidarietà rappresentano oggi esperienze concrete di riappropriazione sociale, basate sulla pratica dell’autogestione e dell’autogoverno, espressione di una crescente tensione nella società, come risposta alla violenta gestione neoliberale della crisi, all’impoverimento di massa e allo smantellamento del welfare. [...] Un aspetto centrale per comprendere l’importanza e le potenzialità trasformative delle nuove esperienze di fabbriche recuperate in Europa – affronteremo in particolare i casi di Francia, Italia, Turchia e Grecia – riguarda, oltre la “difesa” del posto di lavoro, la trasformazione dei rapporti sociali di produzione e la reinvenzione delle istituzioni e delle pratiche mutualistiche storiche del movimento operaio, a partire dallo spazio di relazioni sociali e politiche di cui le nuove esperienze di “lavoro senza padrone” diventano snodo significativo.
Azzellini Dario, Castronovo Alioscia, Fabbriche recuperate e nuova istituzionalità mutualistica, in De Nicola Alberto, Quattrocchi Biagio (a cura di) Sindacalismo sociale, lotte e invenzioni istituzionali nella crisi europea , Collana Alfabeta 2, Derive Approdi, Roma, 2016. Pagg. 128-149
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Esta actividad es organizada por Alioscia Castronovo, Niccolò Cuppini, Camilla De Ambroggi, Carla Hung, Irene Peano, Itandehui Reyes-Díaz, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton y Andrea Fagioli.
Informaciones: https://filosofia.uchile.cl/agenda/208039/conferencia-internacional-la-comuna-planetaria?fbclid=IwAR325smOwOMxQ2Q9iV3oWlXv6dJQ0rhheEQz3a-UbO8GNekFzh7jn0khCpE
Financiado por el fondo de Cooperación Universitaria de la Universidad de Roma La Sapienza, en el marco del Convenio entre IDAES UNSAM y DICEA SAPIENZA
El proyecto surge con el objetivo de contribuir a la formación y la investigación en el campo de Estudios Urbanos desde la colaboración entre departamentos, universidades, estudiantes e investigadores de diferentes continentes y disciplinas involucrados en la investigación con experiencias de autoorganización urbana. Reforzando la capacidad de desarrollar análisis y proyectos comunes, desde una perspectiva transnacional y transdisciplinaria, el proposito es fortalecer la cooperación universitaria y la colaboración entre universidades, instituciones y organizaciones de Europa y America Latina.
A partir del intercambio entre el DICEA, el Laboratorio de Estudios Urbanos Territori dell’Abitare, el IDAES UNSAM, y el GT CLACSO “Economias populares: mapeo teorico y practico” el proyecto propone un espacio de formación transdisciplinaria de tres dias para profundizar debates, construir espacios y redes de intercambio y fortalecer la colaboración científica entre investigadores a nivel internacional.
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financial exploitation (Gago, Mezzadra, 2015). We conceptualize the “popular” as “plebeian”, in terms of class, social antagonism and resonances with the crisis and ruptures (Gutiérrez Aguilar: 2015) that constituted abigarradas (Zavaleta Mercado, 2008) and ch’ixi (Rivera Cusicanqui: 2010) ways of life in Latin America. Although popular economies emerge as “renovated” strategies to face the crisis as a regime of accumulation, they reactualize permanently long memories showing a deep temporal horizon; moreover, they dispute urban spaces, redefine territories and social conflict, contribute to the production of the common and value (not only monetary or economic), combining community frameworks, calculation and popular pragmatism to face neoliberal dispossessions (Gago, 2014; Gutiérrez Aguilar 2015). From our perspective more than “informal” subsistence in “marginal territories” they constitute
infrastructures of an emergent popular institutionality: in order to contribute to the
conceptualization of popular economies, we analyze two different processes of community organization in Buenos Aires, based on the hypothesis that popular institutionality open up the possibility of a new urban -popular infrastructure in the neoliberal age .
Based on an ethnographic research, this article analyzes the urban making from below through commoning and self organization social processes in two different cooperative experiences in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. By analyzing the relationships between capitalistic accumulation, labour transformation and the production of urban spaces, and developing a critique of the category of informality, the aim is presenting popular economies as an ambivalent field of conflict, subjectivation and social transformation possibilities. Delineating the socio-spatial processes in the experiences of Juana Villca cooperative and recuperated enterprise "19 de Diciembre", the contribution reflects on ambivalences, potentialities and challenges of self managed labour experiences as infrastructure of an emergent popular institutionality from below.
ENGLISH:
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the conceptualization of popular economies, creating a dialogue between authors and perspectives of the social sciences and drawing from an ethnographic research project in Buenos Aires. This article is about a journey of the social, productive, and political threads in time and space of the Juana Villca cooperative, which had as its protagonists’ migrant Bolivian workers. This cooperative introduces us to a heterogenous framework in popular economies. By reconstructing a genealogy of the processes that lead to the creation of a cooperative, there is a reflection on the struggles, potentials, and limits of self-management as a productive experimentation and articulation of a new communitarian-popular institutionalization.
Abstract:
The present work analyze the metropolitan transformations and popular education in Buenos Aires. During the 90’s, in fact, the neoliberal reforms deeply
transformed the labor organization an urban spaces in Argentina leaving a
lots of social “black holes”. Especially the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires
was touched by the neoliberals policies where the “new poverty” has materialized in the separation between rich districts and poor neighborhoods, lacking both in terms of minimum services infrastructure and inhabited mostly
by immigrants and young people in precarious economic situation and therefore highly vulnerable. Social movements started to organize themselves in a
self managed way, starting from the neighborhood’s assemblies and the self
managed factories: starting from the 2001 crisis a lot of factories failed and
the workers started to occupy and self manage the production. At the same
time the educational reform transformed the whole educational system so
that popular education meet self managed schools in the occupied factories
spaces building up a new pedagogical project and a new relationship with
the central state.
Por lo tanto, este trabajo está articulado en distintos apartados que dan cuenta de esta trama: en el primero presentaré las dos experiencias cooperativas con las cuales he desarrollado el trabajo de campo, formulando las problemáticas y las preguntas de investigación, mientras en el segundo será explicitada la estrategia metodológica y los desafíos de la práctica etnográfica en el campo. En el siguiente capítulo, el tercero, se profundizarán las trayectorias de lucha y autogestión de la cooperativa Juana Villca, para abordar en el cuarto la reflexión sobre saberes y experiencia a partir del taller de mapeo colectivo del proceso cooperativo de la Juana Villca. En el sexto apartado se presentará la empresa recuperada 19 de Diciembre y los desafíos de la abertura de la fábrica al barrio a partir del taller de mapeo colectivo llevado adelante en el marco del proyecto Colabor. Finalmente, en las reflexiones finales, se busca dar cuenta del papel de la autoformación en los procesos de autogestión como práctica para aprender en común y espacio de elaboración estratégica colectiva.
Nel pieno della crisi globale iniziata nel 2008 sono nate in Europa diverse esperienze di autogestione produttiva basate sul recupero di imprese o fabbriche abbandonate: pur trattandosi di un fenomeno consolidato e comune in America Latina, esso costituisce invece una interessante novità per quanto riguarda lo spazio euro-mediterraneo. Con questo contributo intendiamo riflettere attorno a tali processi di lotta che riguardano tanto la trasformazione del modello di lavoro quanto la ricerca di nuove forme di organizzazione dei lavoratori, aprendo nuovi scenari di negoziazione sociale. Consideriamo tali esperienze parte integrante di quella diffusa e articolata sperimentazione di pratiche cooperative basate sull’autogestione e sul mutualismo sviluppatasi nelle città euro-mediterranee durante la crisi. Cliniche solidali autogestite, occupazioni di case, pratiche sociali diffuse di mutualismo e solidarietà rappresentano oggi esperienze concrete di riappropriazione sociale, basate sulla pratica dell’autogestione e dell’autogoverno, espressione di una crescente tensione nella società, come risposta alla violenta gestione neoliberale della crisi, all’impoverimento di massa e allo smantellamento del welfare. [...] Un aspetto centrale per comprendere l’importanza e le potenzialità trasformative delle nuove esperienze di fabbriche recuperate in Europa – affronteremo in particolare i casi di Francia, Italia, Turchia e Grecia – riguarda, oltre la “difesa” del posto di lavoro, la trasformazione dei rapporti sociali di produzione e la reinvenzione delle istituzioni e delle pratiche mutualistiche storiche del movimento operaio, a partire dallo spazio di relazioni sociali e politiche di cui le nuove esperienze di “lavoro senza padrone” diventano snodo significativo.
Azzellini Dario, Castronovo Alioscia, Fabbriche recuperate e nuova istituzionalità mutualistica, in De Nicola Alberto, Quattrocchi Biagio (a cura di) Sindacalismo sociale, lotte e invenzioni istituzionali nella crisi europea , Collana Alfabeta 2, Derive Approdi, Roma, 2016. Pagg. 128-149
Esta actividad es organizada por Alioscia Castronovo, Niccolò Cuppini, Camilla De Ambroggi, Carla Hung, Irene Peano, Itandehui Reyes-Díaz, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton y Andrea Fagioli.
Informaciones: https://filosofia.uchile.cl/agenda/208039/conferencia-internacional-la-comuna-planetaria?fbclid=IwAR325smOwOMxQ2Q9iV3oWlXv6dJQ0rhheEQz3a-UbO8GNekFzh7jn0khCpE
Financiado por el fondo de Cooperación Universitaria de la Universidad de Roma La Sapienza, en el marco del Convenio entre IDAES UNSAM y DICEA SAPIENZA
El proyecto surge con el objetivo de contribuir a la formación y la investigación en el campo de Estudios Urbanos desde la colaboración entre departamentos, universidades, estudiantes e investigadores de diferentes continentes y disciplinas involucrados en la investigación con experiencias de autoorganización urbana. Reforzando la capacidad de desarrollar análisis y proyectos comunes, desde una perspectiva transnacional y transdisciplinaria, el proposito es fortalecer la cooperación universitaria y la colaboración entre universidades, instituciones y organizaciones de Europa y America Latina.
A partir del intercambio entre el DICEA, el Laboratorio de Estudios Urbanos Territori dell’Abitare, el IDAES UNSAM, y el GT CLACSO “Economias populares: mapeo teorico y practico” el proyecto propone un espacio de formación transdisciplinaria de tres dias para profundizar debates, construir espacios y redes de intercambio y fortalecer la colaboración científica entre investigadores a nivel internacional.
financial exploitation (Gago, Mezzadra, 2015). We conceptualize the “popular” as “plebeian”, in terms of class, social antagonism and resonances with the crisis and ruptures (Gutiérrez Aguilar: 2015) that constituted abigarradas (Zavaleta Mercado, 2008) and ch’ixi (Rivera Cusicanqui: 2010) ways of life in Latin America. Although popular economies emerge as “renovated” strategies to face the crisis as a regime of accumulation, they reactualize permanently long memories showing a deep temporal horizon; moreover, they dispute urban spaces, redefine territories and social conflict, contribute to the production of the common and value (not only monetary or economic), combining community frameworks, calculation and popular pragmatism to face neoliberal dispossessions (Gago, 2014; Gutiérrez Aguilar 2015). From our perspective more than “informal” subsistence in “marginal territories” they constitute
infrastructures of an emergent popular institutionality: in order to contribute to the
conceptualization of popular economies, we analyze two different processes of community organization in Buenos Aires, based on the hypothesis that popular institutionality open up the possibility of a new urban -popular infrastructure in the neoliberal age .
Based on an ethnographic research, this article analyzes the urban making from below through commoning and self organization social processes in two different cooperative experiences in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. By analyzing the relationships between capitalistic accumulation, labour transformation and the production of urban spaces, and developing a critique of the category of informality, the aim is presenting popular economies as an ambivalent field of conflict, subjectivation and social transformation possibilities. Delineating the socio-spatial processes in the experiences of Juana Villca cooperative and recuperated enterprise "19 de Diciembre", the contribution reflects on ambivalences, potentialities and challenges of self managed labour experiences as infrastructure of an emergent popular institutionality from below.
ENGLISH:
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the conceptualization of popular economies, creating a dialogue between authors and perspectives of the social sciences and drawing from an ethnographic research project in Buenos Aires. This article is about a journey of the social, productive, and political threads in time and space of the Juana Villca cooperative, which had as its protagonists’ migrant Bolivian workers. This cooperative introduces us to a heterogenous framework in popular economies. By reconstructing a genealogy of the processes that lead to the creation of a cooperative, there is a reflection on the struggles, potentials, and limits of self-management as a productive experimentation and articulation of a new communitarian-popular institutionalization.
Abstract:
The present work analyze the metropolitan transformations and popular education in Buenos Aires. During the 90’s, in fact, the neoliberal reforms deeply
transformed the labor organization an urban spaces in Argentina leaving a
lots of social “black holes”. Especially the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires
was touched by the neoliberals policies where the “new poverty” has materialized in the separation between rich districts and poor neighborhoods, lacking both in terms of minimum services infrastructure and inhabited mostly
by immigrants and young people in precarious economic situation and therefore highly vulnerable. Social movements started to organize themselves in a
self managed way, starting from the neighborhood’s assemblies and the self
managed factories: starting from the 2001 crisis a lot of factories failed and
the workers started to occupy and self manage the production. At the same
time the educational reform transformed the whole educational system so
that popular education meet self managed schools in the occupied factories
spaces building up a new pedagogical project and a new relationship with
the central state.
financial exploitation (Gago, Mezzadra, 2015). We conceptualize the “popular” as “plebeian”, in terms of class, social antagonism and resonances with the crisis and ruptures (Gutiérrez Aguilar: 2015) that constituted abigarradas (Zavaleta Mercado, 2008) and ch’ixi (Rivera Cusicanqui: 2010) ways of life in Latin America. Although popular economies emerge as “renovated” strategies to face the crisis as a regime of accumulation, they reactualize permanently long memories showing a deep temporal horizon; moreover, they dispute urban spaces, redefine territories and social conflict, contribute to the production of the common and value (not only monetary or economic), combining community frameworks, calculation and popular pragmatism to face neoliberal dispossessions (Gago, 2014; Gutiérrez Aguilar 2015). From our perspective more than “informal” subsistence in “marginal territories” they constitute
infrastructures of an emergent popular institutionality: in order to contribute to the
conceptualization of popular economies, we analyze two different processes of community organization in Buenos Aires, based on the hypothesis that popular institutionality open up the possibility of a new urban -popular infrastructure in the neoliberal age.
La crisis que atravesamos y que hace eclosión con la pandemia es de dimensiones difíciles de asimilar. Es probable que cada semana la vida colectiva se esté reconfigurando y, al mismo tiempo, se alteren las maneras de investigar, mapear y dar cuenta de lo que acontece.
Es evidente que la pandemia no ha generado una crisis, sino que ha acelerado dinámicas de la crisis civilizatoria del capital agudizando su contradicción con la reproducción de la vida con expresiones como el incremento de los niveles de desigualdad, arrasando con las condiciones del trabajo tanto formales como informales y recrudeciendo la dependencia e invisibilización del trabajo reproductivo, en el hogar y en los territorios comunitarios. Las medidas de aislamiento, a la vez norma general pero selectiva en los hechos en cada país, declarada obligatoria en diferentes momentos y con distintas intensidades en cada sitio, constituyen un aspecto significativo de las nuevas condiciones de la reproducción colectiva en medio de la crisis planetaria.
Esto se traduce en impactos en los modos de circulación, producción y distribución de la riqueza; la caída y el bloqueo de importantes sectores de la economía y el relanzamiento de otros; la implementación de medidas de emergencia a nivel alimentario, habitacional, sanitario, educativo y económico; el despliegue de diversos dispositivos de control poblacional con clara segmentación clasista, sexista y racializante junto a la militarización de ciertos territorios; el cierre de fronteras y la limitación de la movilidad; y nuevos modos de trabajar, de conseguir ingresos y de proveer recursos que profundizan las desigualdades y las jerarquías en espacios urbanos y rurales, nacionales y transnacionales. Este panorama se inscribe en nuestra región en particular sobre una acumulación de despojos neoliberales, de aumento de la deuda externa y doméstica, y de los efectos de largo plazo de la precariedad de los servicios públicos que caracterizan al capitalismo de hegemonía financiera sobre el Sur global.
Palabras clave: economías populares, autogestión, común
numero 23, anno 2021, a cura di Adriana Goñi Mazzitelli, Mauro Gil Fournier.
Nota Etica | Publication ethics
Processo di peer-review | Peer-review process
Revisori QU3 | QU3 Reviewers
We start to write this number before the Coronavirus pandem- ic. The great solidarity networks that are emerging from the cri- sis, confirm that in this time of great political and institutional upheaval around the world, Latin America shows a capability of great solidarity and resilience that come from self organized prac- tices. While these groups are critical in front of control measures and the proposal of neoliberal formulas to shrink the State and hinder its provision of a safety net for everyday life, we are inter- ested in analyse how they could being recognized with an active role in planning issues.
This number of Q3 shows a variety of researches on experiences that goes beyond these convulsed times into new ways of what we call extitutional urbanism, where we identify a permanent interac- tion of a multiplicity of agents and agencies, as well as innovative processes that are redistributing urban decision-making. We con- sider that some new concepts and theories, as well as methodolog- ical approaches could be an opportunity to re- visited the tradition- al discussions on participation in territorial planning.
introduction by Adriana Goñi Mazzitelli & Mauro Gil Fournier
Extitutional Urbanism: Civic Labs in Latin America
by D. Di Siena
Cooperative urbanity. Institutionalization of a grassroots movement The case of the Uruguayan cooperative housing movement
by S. Benenati
Chico Rei Movement: extitutional practices for the right to housing
by K. Gonçalves Carneiro
Medellin transformation: urban policy and social counter-use
by L.M. Sánchez Mazo & A.L. Gutiérrez Tamayo
Popular urban economies and community self organization in Buenos Aires
by A.J. Bustos & A. Castronovo
The instituent praxis: creating our model
N. Maurera & G. Visconti Stopello
Self-management as the autonomy horizon in the work of Arquitetas Sem Fronteiras – ASF Brasil
N. H. Lana, B. Camposano Medici, L. Grossi & L. Silva
The pilot experience of the Plan Maestro for the “Ramal A” of Zacatecoluca (El Salvador) M. Cerasoli & C. Amato
Practices of Transnational Dwelling between ‘Remittance Urbanism’ and ‘Extractive Tourism’
by A. Di Campli
The houses of Jardim Filhos da Terra, Sao Paulo
Progetto fotografico di C. Del Bianco