Producing the Commons. Community Weavings and forms of the political

Abstract

Over the following pages I intend to do the following: first, to provide an overview of the many lines of thought woven into the shared fabric of our work at the Permanent Research Seminar Entramados comunitarios y formas de lo político (“Community weavings and forms of the political”), as part of the Graduate Studies in Sociology Program at the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla’s Social Science Institute. Second, I will methodically present some of the partial syntheses that we have reached as a group. My aim is to give an account of our own process of research and training, which is usually presented in dispersed and fragmentary form because of the academic world’s demands of individual authorship. Here, by contrast, I would like to present in more or less general terms our group’s shared findings and creations.

Keywords

• community weavings
• producing the commons
• indigenous and popular struggles with community roots
• communality
• doing.