Framing essay: the diversity of property

Kevin St. Martin

Property concerns exclusive rights to the access and use of a resource, the possession of an object or territory with a right to exclude others, or the ability to dispose of or exchange an owned object. The particular property regime that has, for at least the minority world, become a ‘common sense’ is a private and individualized notion of property that is manifest in legal title and state enforcement.

Dislocando la propiedad. Un análisis sobre usos del espacio en una experiencia colectiva en Rosario, Argentina

Monje Ana María, Burin David, Movimiento Trabajadores Autogestionados y Heras Monner Sans, Ana Inés

El capitalismo, en tanto realidad histórica, se ha fundado desde una producción del espacio basada en la creación, naturalización y legitimación de lapropiedad privada. No obstante, dicha perspectiva se encuentra en tensióncon otros modos de pensar y hacer la vida que re-significan al espacio comobien de uso común y como lugar para habitar decidiendo en conjunto.

Born out of Struggle in Argentina: Bachilleratos Populares with/in/against the State

Gary L. Anderson
Dipti Desai
Ana Inés Heras
Carol Anne Spreen

The economic implosion in the late 1990s in Argentina created the conditions for the emergence of a series of alternative social organizations that were autogestionados, or created from the ground up by unemployed
workers, social activists, artists, and educators. Here, we describe one of these social organizations, Bachillerato Popular IMPA, which is located within an abandoned factory that was recuperated to form a workers’ cooperative.