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Data: Tending Seeds of Civic Activity
No full textThis data was collected as part of the PhD project “Tending Seeds of Civic Activity” in the winter, spring and summer of 2021. Farmers in the Netherlands who were identified as “proto-regenerative” were selected, and new contacts were gathered through the snowball method. Proto-regenerative means that the selected farmers are, to varying degrees, driven by a mission of building regenerative food systems, which is defined as healthy people, healthy communities, and a healthy planet. Land and food cooperatives in Germany and the Netherlands were also identified and contacted for interview. Cooperative initiatives, to varying degrees, share principles of democratic control by members, solidarity, collective ownership, and value-based organizational decision making.
Interviews generally followed the interview guide included in the data set. Questions were geared towards understanding the ways in which citizens take matters into their own hands in attempts to address pressing social and ecological crises, (2) regenerative economic relationships that are built by citizens and communities, and (3) ways that responsive governance could better recognize, facilitate and enable these generative alternatives
Data: Toward the commoning of governance
No full textConventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the only valid possibilities in both theory and practice, this stale dilemma covers up a real multitude of actually existing alternative approaches to governance practiced in civil society. State/Market approaches are identical in the way that they construct a 'spectator' role for communities, who are left to choose between their preferred set of rules and norms developed elsewhere. The concept of commoning governance offers an opportunity to break free of this stalemate. It creates a new role for citizens and their communities as 'sparring partners'; who although they operate within the limits of current State/Market institutions, create new norms and rules against and beyond them. In the paper, we first expand on our understanding of commoning governance: re-designing governance arrangements to serve the common good. That is here understood in terms of (radical) democracy, solidarity and sustainable ecological relationships. Second, we illustrate how commoning efforts on the ground contribute to the reclaiming of the democratic imaginary as a political arena by zooming in to a case study of the three cities involved in civic-led network of German Food Policy Councils. Finally, we reflect on the empirical barriers that communities of commoning endure, and call on policymakers, planners and scholars to interrogate their own normative understandings of citizenship and democracy, and begin to recognize theoretical and latent possibilities by enabling commoning with new or re-designed institutions of governance
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
Get PDFCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather regarding the sale of Bass properties
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather requesting that congress pay W. W. Bass the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for his properties
Stephen Graham Jones - Sowell Conference 2017
Get PDFStephen Graham Jones, University of Colorado-Boulder, author of "Mongrels" and "Growing Up Dead in Texas
Letter from Stephen Mather, National Park Service to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Stephen Mather to Carl Hayden regarding the sale of Bass properties to the Santa Fe Railroad Company
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