thanks Raul! I have been negligent about telling the GEP list. I am
frantically trying to get the forms for submitting abstracts loaded this
week, and we will be putting a lot more information about travel and the
like up very soon.
Tell all your friends. this is going to be fantastic meeting, and I should
point out that it is being sponsored by COMMONERS. The commons-owning
citizens of North Fuji (that's what the "kita" in "Kitafuji" means) have
fought for 150 years to keep their commons, which the Meiji (1870s) and
then the Showa (1930s) governments tried to snatch from them. Armed with a
new constitution in the postwar period, they took the government to court
and WON their commons back. The government now has to pay rent for the
part it sues as a training ground. This huge victory has done a lot to
improve the legal status of all types of commons in Japan.
Anyway, I blather on, but this is the first IASC meeting to be sponsored by
commoners (who are able to do this because they kept their commons as an
asset), and the first of course to take place ON a commons. The venue is
spectacular of course. And easily reached by express train and bus from
Narita airport.
So please think up papers and panels, and please come. You can imagine how
thrilled the commoners of Fuji were to find out that OTHER people are
intersted in commons and that Lin Ostrom won a Nobel prize for her studies
of the commons. Sadly, of course, Lin will not be able to do the keynote
address at the meeting that we had planned.
More, soon, I promise.
Best,
Meg McKean
--On Friday, July 13, 2012 7:22 PM +0000 "Pacheco-Vega, Raul"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
Just a friendly reminder that end-of-August 2012 is the deadline for
submission of abstracts for the 2013 Global Conference of the
International Association for Study of the Commons. I'm copying and
pasting a little blurb about the conference. Our very own GEP-ED member
Meg McKean is the conference co-chair.
http://www.iasc2013.org/en/proposals.html
Personally I am interested in assembling panels in 2 of the tracks (you
can read about all the sub-themes here
http://www.iasc2013.org/en/sub-themes.html):
8. Commons and Complexity
and
14. Advancing research on the commons: methods, comparable data, and
theoretical research frontiers
If interested in participating in such a panel, please contact me off the
GEP-ED list. I also missed the opportunity to assemble a panel for ISA
2013 on the global politics of water, and seeing as water is a global
commons, maybe someone would like to join me for this track?
Thanks!
Raul
