Health and law-making: collectively re-creating narratives

On March 10 2022, from 13:30 to 15:00 CET, an online workshop will be organized by the International Association for the Study of the Commons.

This event is part of a colloquia series "dedicated to the policy issues related to the commons and importance of bringing the commons discussion to policy makers' attention in Europe & CIS and for engaging our community in a wider policy dialogue."

Content (draft)

 * Worldviews about the Law
 * a book of rules to comply to → Napoleon civil code (post-positivism, universalism)
 * a process of collectively agreeing on the rules that bring out the best of society → indigenous customs (social constructivism, contextual)
 * Origins in Education
 * Knowledge owned by third-party experts → hierarchy, state vs market
 * Knowledge emerging from the group → self-organization, commons
 * Narratives about the Social Contract
 * Innovation requires private resources → intellectual property, exclusion
 * Access to resources is a fundamental right → participatory governance, pluralism (Rodotà, Italy Supreme Court)

Approach

 * Emergence of participants' knowledge on the topic enriched by inputs from experts.

Further readings

 * Medina J. The Epistemology of Resistance – Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and the Social Imagination. Oxford 2013.
 * Okolloh O. Ushahidi or ’testimony’: Web 2.0 tools for crowdsourcing crisis information. Participatory Learning and Action 2009.
 * Ostrom E. Beyond markets and states: polycentric governance of complex economic systems. Prize lecture. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009.
 * Oxfam. The hunger virus multiplies: deadly recipe of conflict, covid19 and climate accelerate world hunger. 2021.
 * Pearce JM. Cut costs with open-source hardware. Nature 2014.
 * Raymond E. The cathedral and the bazaar. Knowledge, Technology & Policy 1999; 12(3).
 * Rushkoff D. Team Human. WW Norton 2019.
 * V-Dem Institute. Autocratization Turns Viral. Democracy Report 2021. 2021.

Facilitators

 * Fabio Balli, IUC Turin, Italy
 * very short bio of max 2 sentences about the key affiliation and research interest

Series hosts

 * Tobias Haller, University of Bern, Switzerland
 * Ilkhom Soliev, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany