Sofija Stefanović is an activist and PhD researcher at Cambridge University where her work is primarily informed by feminist science & technology studies and environmental justice. As a scholar-activist, she cooperates with grassroots groups scrutinising and resisting extractive industries–especially intensified mining for “critical minerals” in Serbia–to conduct collaborative research and actions. Her work aims to contribute to connecting current struggles to broader land dispossession issues and alternative visions of a just transition, as well as building practical tools/resources for mobilising support and challenging specific corporations. Sofija co-founded Zeleni Talas—an environmental initiative in Čačak. She is also active in the environmental and land justice movement in the UK.

Robert Kozma is a member of the executive council of the green-left political movement Ne davimo Beograd (Don’t let Belgrade Drown) / Green Left Front and a member of the National Assembly of Serbia (active in European Affairs Committee; Spatial Planning Committee; Committee on Labour and Social Issues). He has an MA in Political Science. 

Darko Vesić is a member and one of the founders of the Center for the Politics of Emancipation, where he works as a coordinator of the political education program. As part of his role, he collaborates on organizing the educational platform Studies of Socialism and where he teaches topics related to Marxist critique of political economy and critical analysis of contemporary capitalism.

Manuel B. Aalbers is professor of Geography at KU Leuven, the University of Leuven (Belgium) where he leads a research group on the intersection of real estate, finance and states. Previously he was at the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University. He has published on financialization, redlining, social and financial exclusion, neoliberalism, mortgage markets, the privatization of social housing, neighborhood decline, gentrification and the Anglo-American hegemony in academic research and writing. He is the author of Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and The Financialization of Housing: A Political Economy Approach (Routledge, 2016) and the editor of Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Most of his papers can be downloaded from https://kuleuven.academia.edu/ManuelAalbers.

Philipp Katsinas is a postdoctoral research associate in the REDEFINE project at The Open University. His research focuses on the effects of major Chinese infrastructural investments in Europe and on the transformations of housing systems, including the social and spatial impacts of the increasing role of finance and tourism on urban economies. Philipp has held research and teaching roles at the London School of Economics, King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, and Birkbeck, University of London. He is part of the City Collective for the journal City.

Iva Marčetić holds a Master degree from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. Her primary field of interest is the interconnection between architecture, planning and housing policies in an effort to improve the material conditions of urban life. She has actively worked on democratization of urban planning mechanisms and improving housing rights. She is a longtime member and coordinator of Right to the city organization from Zagreb. As part of the architectural collective Pulska grupa she represented Croatia in the 13th Biennial of Architecture in Venice with their work “Unmediated democracy needs unmediated space”. She is the author of the book “Housing policy in service of social and spatial (in)equalities”. She currently works at the University of Kassel.

Dorina Pllumbi is an Albanian architect and Ph.D. researcher at the Technological University of Delft, Netherlands. Her research focuses on exploring commoning practices as both material and spatial engagements within the context of political transition. Pllumbi’s writings have been published in various Albanian and international press, cultural, architectural, and academic journals, including Kosovo 2.0, Politiken, Architectural Review, Architectural Design, and Architecture and Culture. Dorina has also been actively engaged in collaborative research-creation projects, including the co-production of a short film titled “Would you call yourself a kombinats?”. She co-organized a training school in 2023 called “Tirana and Kamza: The planned, the unplanned and everything in between,” which was part of the COST action Writing Urban Places.

Artan Sadiku is an anarchist activist and theorist from Skopje and his interests are theories of the subject, political economy, queer thinking and radical practices in politics and arts. He was a motivator of the social movement in Macedonia and initiated the School for politics and critique. Also, he is the founder of the Social Centre Dunja and Culture Club Syndicate and the activist movement Solidarnost. Currently he is organizing the KRIK festival for critical culture that takes place in Skopje.

Alexandros Kioupkiolis is Associate Professor of Contemporary Political Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. He has studied Classics (BA, University of Athens), and Contemporary Political Theory (MA, Essex University, DPhil, Oxford University). His research interests are focussed on radical democracy, the commons, social movements, and the philosophy of freedom. He has directed an ERC COG project on these topics (Heteropolitics, 2017-2020) and has published numerous relevant books and papers, including the monographs Τhe Common and Counter-hegemonic Politics (Edinburgh University Press 2019), Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism: Democratic Alter-Politics and Transformative Strategies (Routledge 2022).

Vujo Ilić is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, and a Policy and Research Advisor at Crta. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University in Budapest. His research interests include democratic institutions, elections, and participation, as well as research methodology. He is a member of the ActiveLab, and he participated in several international projects that researched themes mentioned above. At Crta, he leads the election observation analytics team, develops electoral recommendations, and designs surveys, including the annual audit of citizen participation in democratic processes.

Irena Fiket is a Senior Research Fellow and academic coordinator of the laboratory for Active Citizenship at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her current research interests lie in deliberative democracy, citizens’ participation, democratic innovations, social movements and Western Balkans. On those topics she published a book, book chapters and articles in journals such as Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, PACO-Partecipazione e Conflitto, Italian Political Science Review, Javnost—The Public, European Union Politics, and others. She is currently serving as academic coordinator of Jean Monnet Network ‘Active Citizenship: Promoting and Advancing Innovative Democratic Practices in The Western Balkans’.

Zuzanna Nowak graduated from International Relations with a specialty in diplomacy and consular relations. She’s a trained facilitator with over 7 years of experience in designing and leading group processes using non-formal methodology. An expert and practitioner in the field of deliberative democracy. Co-author of the Training Camp for Citizen’s Assembly Coordinators. Co-creator of citizens’ assemblies in the cities of Poznan, Ozurgeti, and Rustavi, as well as the Washington State Climate Assembly and the European Citizen Panels. Her greatest professional joy is to help people feel empowered and meaningful (and to make pretty flipcharts). Privately, she’s an artist, a yoga student, and a passionate home cook.

She holds degrees from the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Architecture and is the founder of the “Ministry of Space” collective. Her interests span spatial resource management, urban common goods, and bridging formal frameworks with informal practices. She founded Belgrade’s Street Gallery and engaged there until 2020. Formerly a visiting collaborator and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, she’s collaborated with foreign universities since 2015. She coordinated the “FundAction” platform for European activism from 2018 to 2020.

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and earned a master’s degree in Gender Studies from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Currently, she’s pursuing her doctoral thesis there. Her research and activist work intersect contemporary political theory, feminist theory, and urban critical studies. She focuses on spatial justice, democratization of spatial policies, housing policies, and the struggle for the right to housing.

Diplomirala je i doktorirala na Arhitektonskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu. Osnivačica je kolektiva Ministarstvo prostora. Usmerena je na teme upravljanja i raspolaganja prostornim resursima, urbana zajednička dobra, kao i na tačke susreta institucionalnog, planskog i normativnog okvira sa oblicima neformalnih praksi. Osnivačica je Ulične galerije u Beogradu, čijim se programom bavila do 2020. godine. Bila je angažovana kao gostujući saradnik i predavač na Departmanu za urbanizam na Arhitektonskom fakultetu u Beogradu do 2017. godine, a od 2015. godine sarađuje sa univerzitetima van Srbije. Od 2018. do 2020. godine bila je koordinatorka aktivističke evropske participativne platforme „FundAction” za podršku aktivizmu. Članica je odbora Guerrilla fondacije (Nemačka) i donatorskog odbora Trag fondacije u programu „Aktivne zajednice” (Srbija).

Đorđe Pavićević is a professor of Political Theory at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science. His courses are dealing with issues in contemporary political theory, history of political ideas and theories of justice and democracy. Among the books he published are Disciplining Democracy (co-author Marko Simendić) and Justice and Politics: A Scope and Limits of Rawls’s theory of justice. He is also the author of many articles on related topics as well as numerous analytical essays on Serbian politics.Đorđe Pavićević is politically engaged as a member of the Green-Left Front and became a member of Serbian National Assembly in 2022.

Radostina Slavkova is an “Energy and Climate” coordinator at Environmental Association “Za Zemiata” – Determined to work for sustainable life on our planet and to combat exploitation of people and nature. She holds an MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy and BS in Eco-economics. She works on climate and fossil fuels phase out policies, in support of Bulgaria’s just energy transition. Radostina has previous research experience in energy poverty and fighting it through the means of energy retrofit of buildings, which was later upgraded with practical experience on housing policy in the Bulgarian Regional Ministry department, designing and implementing the National Renovation Program.

Maja Pupovac holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki and a Master’s degree in political science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During her studies, Dr Pupovac focused on qualitative research methods emphasising bottom-up engagement with different communities in Southeast Europe, which allowed her to develop a deep understanding of the complex political, social and cultural factors that shape people’s lives and perspectives. In recent years, she has focused on social aspects of air pollution, just energy transition and environmental protection. She has authorised dozens of publications, including academic articles, studies and analyses, policy reports, briefing notes and position papers.

Miljenka Kuhar holds a degree in sociology. Throughout her career in the public sector, she worked on many projects funded by the European Commission. She has extensive knowledge of public policy, mainly related to climate and energy policies. Recently she focused more on social and gender issues in the process of the just and inclusive energy transition, among which especially on topics of climate justice and energy poverty.

Robert Kasumović is a master of pharmacy and a long-term activist. He is a member of the NGO Roma Forum of Serbia, a member of the editorial board of the portal “Mašina,” a researcher, and a political activist. He is the author of several research projects and publications on the subject of the Roma minority and on waste management.

Julian holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from Technische Universität Dresden, and he is a political activist and consultant for projects on urban democracy, the co-production of urban space, and Gemeinwohl housing policies and economy. He is a co-founder and currently the CEO of the real-estate mediation cooperative Häuser Bewegen GIMA eG. For over a decade, he has been working within collaborative structures organizing non-commercial cultural and political events such as the urbanize! Festival in Berlin and Monis Rache Festival. Previously, he worked with Diese eG housing cooperative and with AKS Gemeinwohl, which focuses on helping tenants, landlords, and politicians in finding alternatives to the neoliberal real-estate transactions. In addition, he contributed to research in the field of participatory processes in environmental law at the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues in Berlin.

Urbanist and researcher. Her work focuses on cities of exasperated insecurities, spacio-politics of and resistance to (neo)colonialism, and facing uncertainties through dynamic people-based spatial design strategies. As a a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator at K LAB, TU-Berlin she was focusing on the intersection of critical mapping and socio-environmental transformation. A recent co-authored publication is the mapping change logbook, and forthcoming is CMMM: Critical Mapping for Municipalist Mobilization. She is co-founder/director of UR°BANA, with which she leads the Ramallah team in the multisite comparative research project “Urbanization, Gender and the Global South.” Formerly Professor of Urban Planning (Acting Chair) at Dessau Institute of Architecture, and visiting lecturer at several universities.

Urbanist and project curator. Her work focuses on tackling the urban polycrisis and advancing socio-ecological transformations within contemporary complexities. More specifically, her work strives to contest and re-shape urban resource flows and the unjust distribution of services, access, and opportunities. She works at TU Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator for SMUS – the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability, which connects close to 50 partners from eight world regions and focuses on some of the most pressing urban challenges of today. Former projects include Critical Mapping for Municipalist Mobilization, Mapping Change and Critical Urban Agenda: Rethinking the Urban

He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade and has been active in the civil sector for over 15 years. His work focuses on the spatial dimension of social justice, emphasizing democratizing decision-making, managing public resources, and ensuring housing accessibility. He is the founder of the “Ministry of Space” and various other collectives and initiatives that have stemmed from it.

Filip Milosevic is an activist at SHARE Foundation, primarily focusing on emerging tech and issues of digital surveillance, artificial intelligence, data centralization, extractivism, and their societal and freedom-related impacts. He is a member of Decentrala hackerspace and serves on the advisory board of Internet Society Serbia (ISOC).

Dr. Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and consultant. He is co-director of Abundance, a new organization focussed on developing and implementing Public-Common Partnerships, an alternative model for the ownership and governance of assets which aims to build a self-expansive dynamic into the commons. Abundance is currently participating in eight projects seeking to establish Public-Common Partnerships or related public-community action models in locations spread across urban and rural settings in several different countries. As a member of the Red Plenty Games Collective he also designs and runs political strategy games and uses game play to research common political imaginaries. He co-hosts the popular #ACFM podcast on Novara Media and his most recent book is Generation Left.

Nikola Ostojić holds a master’s degree at the Faculty of Architecture. His final thesis on the topic “Open Source Center” through program design of the use of existing abandoned buildings in Sarajevo examines the possibility of implementing an open source approach in physical space, through the way the center operates and the projects that would be implemented in it. Most prominent presentation of the work was at the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia and a nomination in the category of student works. He is currently practicing this work through activities in the Independent Social and Cultural Center in Sarajevo. He is an associate in the Bosnian/Norwegian architectural office “AHAKNAP”, and in addition actively collaborates with various organizations, artists and architects on the creation of socially engaged and experimental projects.

Tijana Ana Spasovska holds degree in History of Art, Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. Later she attended 2 Master Degree programs: UNESCO Cultural Chair program at the Belgrade University; and the GIOCA program at Bologna University. She has been a part of the CRIC-festival for critical culture, held in Skopje. Worked as a national coordinator of the JADRO. Currently works as a program coordinator in Kooperativa, and is a member of the “Governmental council for cooperation with civil society organisations in North Macedonia”, voted as a representative of the civil sector, representing the independent cultural scene.

Marko Peterlin is a co-founder and a director at IPoP. He aims to strengthen the environment for resilient communities. He initiated a national network of NGOs active in urban development. He is part of URBACT, a Europe-wide knowledge sharing programme for cities. Since 2011 he coordinates Jane’s Walks in Slovenia, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs. He writes for various newspapers and blogs, speaks and facilitates debates at conferences, seminars, workshops. He is also a local activist.

Ivan Velisavljević is a leftist, disability activist and the head curator of the Alternative Film Archive in Student City Cultural Center Belgrade. Studied film, literature and drama in Belgrade, Zagreb, Ithaca and Los Angeles. He is currently in the process of writing his PhD thesis on disability and post-Yugoslav film. Some essays and articles in English on his favorite subject of Yugoslav cinema: “Against Capitalism from the Stalinist Cellar: The Balkan Spy in the Post-Yugoslav Context” (2017), “Socialist Modernization is Not the Real News: Yugoslav Documentaries of the 1960s and early 1970s” (2017), “Bodies that Shudder: Disability and Typhus Sufferers in Partisan Films” (2015). His book: The Best Serbian Films of the 21st Century (with Đ. Bajić and Z. Janković, 2019). Follows punk and world music and supports the DIY hard-core/punk movement.

Jovana Marović, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of European Affairs of Montenegro, has dedicated her career to the European integration of Montenegro and the Western Balkans. She holds a PhD in Political Science, specializing in the EU’s democratic deficit. Jovana’s experience includes advisory roles for the EU in Montenegro’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, international relations, and European integration in Budva Municipality. She has served as a research coordinator at the Institute Alternative and as executive director of the Politikon Network, a think tank. Jovana was also the vice president of the Civic Movement URA and a special advisor to the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare. Additionally, she has been a member of BiEPAG, the Balkans in Europe Advisory Group, since 2015.

Graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Attended a large number of summer schools, seminars and debates in the country and abroad, and held the same number of lectures and presentations. He has been active in the civil sector for more than 10 years. In the last few years, he primarily deals with issues of urban development and fights for public spaces and public and common goods. He is one of the initiators of the Ministry of Space collective, Ne davimo Beograd, and green left coalition “Moramo”. Currently part of Small council of Ne davimo Beograd, and head of Ne davimo Beograd group in Belgrade city assembly.

Aleksa Petković is  political activist, municipality coordinator in Green-left front. Fields of interest: labor rights and trade unions, green policies. Aleksa has graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade. He was active in the anti-eviction organization (Za krov nad glavom) and environmental organization Right to Water.

Jana Kocevska graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Skopje and has co-founded Tiiiit! Inc., and CINIK – the Center for Research of Nationalism and Culture. Through Tiiiit! Inc. she is a co-organiser of the feminist festival ‘Firstborn Girl’ (Prvo pa žensko).  Jana was an active collaborator of the Skopje Pride Weekend and the CRIC festival of critical culture. She also serves as a member of the managerial board of Jadro – Association of the Independent Cultural Scene, and as the president of the board of the Socio-Cultural Space Centar-Jadro, the first hybrid public cultural institution in Macedonia, established as a civic-public partnership. With her background in activism and research, Jana has worked with various civil society organizations.

Maša Elezović is a feminist, activist, designer, and she currently works as the women’s program manager at the Trag Foundation. In every situation, she’s the one who asks “Where are the women?”, whether she’s watching the parliament or reading The Lord of the Rings. She uses the phrase “structural inequality” in both appropriate and inappropriate situations. After completing design studies in Cetinje, she realized that she’s better at analyzing than in drawing, so she shifted her focus to the field of gender studies, thanks to scholarships in Japan and London. In her master’s thesis, she addressed the question of sex robot production, and today, among many other things, she wonders how AI will affect women.

Natalija Simović is a political activist, local councilor in the City of Belgrade on behalf of the Green-left front and has been working for many years in feminist philanthropy. Within this capacity, she led and developed the Issues Affecting Women for Western Balkans program, supporting over 60 women’s organizations. She introduced many innovations in participatory grantmaking, women’s movement building, and engaging with grassroots and survivor-led initiatives, and currently works to bring this perspective in the field of child sexual violence on a global level.  She was one of the founders of the feminist group Ne davimo Beograd/Green left front and is passionate about the feminization of politics and transforming political structures to be equitable, inclusive, and caring.

Graduated at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, department of Dramaturgy and got a PhD in Theory of Arts and Media at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her plays have been produced in many countries and have been translated into several foreign languages and published in anthologies of contemporary drama. She had also directed several plays and performances among which: Freedom the most expensive capitalist word and World without women (with Olga Dimitrijević), They live (with Milan Marković). Received numerous awards for her theatre achievements. Together with Srećko Horvat founded and moderated Philosophical theatre in Belgrade. Member of the coordinating collective of pan-European movement Diem 25.

Olga Dimitrijević was born in 1984 in Belgrade, SFRY. In her work, she explores the topics of social struggles and injustices, female friendship and solidarity, queer histories, borders of political imagination, and the possibilities of a better world. She is the author of many plays (My Dear, The Folk Play, Workers Die Singing…), and auteur projects (Red Love based on the novel by Alexandra Kollontai, Freedom: the Most Expensive Capitalist Word, Lepa Brena Project/with Vladimir Aleksić, Lonely Planet/with a group of authors, Radio Šabac, Drama about the End of the World). Lives and works between Belgrade and Rijeka. Often dreams of revolution.

Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan-Dutch anthropologist and political economist. His research interests are focused on in emancipatory politics and public policy. He joined the Transnational Institute (TNI, an Amsterdam-based think tank) in 2001 as co-ordinator of the Energy Project, looking at democratic and participatory alternatives to privatisation in the Global South. He currently coordinated the TNI New Politics Lab. Before moving to Europe he was an activist-scholar working for the United Federation of Mutual-Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM, Uruguay’s main urban social movement). He has authored and edited a number of books, including most recently Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings, with Susan Spronk and David McDonald. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from Erasmus University’s International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague).

The meaning and challenges of emancipatory politics in a fast-changing world

Over the last two decades, each wave of emancipatory politics around the globe has encountered significant reversals and setbacks when faced with the structural power and logic of capital and the state. And while the radical left has enjoyed moments of electoral and ideological resurgence in countries, the main beneficiaries of the crisis of neoliberalism have been populist and authoritarian right forces. There is a great deal to be learned from investigating the fortunes of the left within and beyond electoral politics over the last two decades. This contribution will analyse the strategic dilemmas faced by progressive parties and social movements, as well as the possibilities, limitations, challenges and opportunities for a left transformative project in the 21st century.

Kate Aronoff is a New York-based staff writer for The New Republic, and the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke The Planet—And How We Fight Back (Bold Type Books, 2021). She is the co-author of A Planet To Win: Why We Need A Green New Deal (Verso, 2019), and the co-editor of We Own The Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style (The New Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, MSNBC, Rolling Stone and Harpers, among other outlets.

Where Does The Green New Deal Go From Here?

The Green New Deal doesn’t yet exist, but has reshaped the course of climate politics both in the U.S. and around the world. The session will look back to the framework’s namesake, its emergence in the UK amid the Great Recession and surge into headlines in the fall of 2018 shortly after the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A survey of efforts in Congress and at the municipal level to make the Green New Deal a reality through investment programs in schools, social housing and cities will help explain not just the policy details but the dual power political strategy embodied in them, and what lessons that might hold for movements and parties abroad. The session will contrast that technocratic efforts to brand extractive public-private partnerships as climate justice, from the European Commission’s Green Deal to the fire sale of public goods embedded in bipartisan infrastructure proposals in the US.

At the root of the Green New Deal is a basic reorientation of ecological politics: from a framework of sacrifice to one of abundance. Recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis, moreover, should put much more expansive visions of climate politics on the table: from nationalizing the fossil fuel industry, to bringing electric utilities under public ownership, to enacting a federal job guarantee and 4 day work week. What are the dangers of limiting climate politics only to national boundaries? And how can a low-carbon society also be one that’s ultimately more democratic, leisurely, and free?

Aaron Benanav is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin and the academic coordinator for the research unit “Re-Allocation” in the Cluster of Excellence “SCRIPTS: Contestations of the Liberal Script,” a seven-year project funded by the German Research Foundation. Benanav’s first book, Automation and the Future of Work, appeared with Verso in November 2020 (German, Spanish, Korean, and Russian translations are forthcoming in 2021). He is currently working on two other book projects. One concerns the idea of a “post-scarcity” economics. The other examines the global history of unemployment since World War II. Before joining Humboldt, Benanav was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Benanav is a member of Endnotes and serves on the editorial board of the journal International Labor and Working Class History.

Automation, the end of work, and a new tomorrow?

Many workers today are languishing in jobs that offer only low pay, limited contracts, and long hours. What is the relationship between the precarity or insecurity of work, on the one hand, and automation and artificial intelligence, on the other? Are proposals like a universal basic income or a jobs guarantee likely to resolve the troubles workers face today in getting or keeping jobs and earning enough to live? Aaron Benanav surveys the wreckage of contemporary capitalism, as well as the social movements and new policy proposals that have encouraged increasing numbers of people to imagine a “post-work,” “post-growth,” or “post-scarcity” future. What should be the essential features of this new way of living and working, and which demands will be the most important ones for getting us there?

Samuel Stein researches, writes about and participates in the politics of urban planning, with an emphasis on housing, labor, real estate, and gentrification in New York City. His work has been published in The Guardian, The Village Voice, Jacobin and many other newspapers, magazines, websites, edited volumes and scholarly journals, and has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, Architectural Review, and more. In 2019, Verso published his first book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. He is a member of the steering committee for the Planners Network, the organization of progressive planning.

Housing Inside and Outside the Real Estate State

In many cities around the world, housing is becoming far more expensive than most workers’ wages can support. There is an abundance of certain kinds of housing development – predominantly luxury housing, whose purpose is at least as much to store and grow investments as it is to serve as a home – while at the same time there is a trend toward privatizing, demolishing, or reducing the affordability of public, social, and rent regulated housing. Why is this happening? Who benefits from these trends? What alternatives already exist, and what else can we imagine? This talk will take us through the macroeconomic forces that are driving a historic level of capital into private real estate and the political impacts of such a transformation on housing and urban planning. We will concentrate not only on the power of real estate capital, but also its economic and political weaknesses and the opportunities those weaknesses create for public and nonprofit alternatives to commoditized and financialized housing. Though examples will come primarily from the speaker’s home context – the United States, and New York City in particular – the audience will be encouraged to draw comparisons, parallels, and distinctions from their own urban and national contexts. The goal of the talk will be to identify some of the structural forces that have driven housing unaffordability in our cities in order to understand what it will take to transform the system.

Ana Džokić i Marc Neelen preko 20 godina krče put nekonvencionalnim odgovorima na izazove savremenog urbanog razvoja, u prvom redu kroz njihovu praksu STEALTH.unlimited (Roterdam/Beograd). Radili su u različitim kontekstima, od urbanih istraživanjima u gradovima bivše Jugoslavije i Albanije, holandskog paviljona na arhitektonskom bijenalu u Veneciji, Zagrebačkog salona, do proširenja društveno-kulturnog centra u slamu u Medelinu, Kolumbija. Osnivači su dve organizacije koje se bave savremenim stambenim pitanjem: Ko gradi grad, beogradske platforme koja zagovara zadružno stanovanje i Stad in de Maak u Roterdamu koja od 2014. upravlja “toksičnom imovinom” holandskog socijalnog stanovanja. Osnivači su zadruge Pametnija zgrada, prve stambene zadruge osnovane u Beogradu u zadnjih 20 godina i Evropske zadruge MOBA Housing SCE. Mođu pokretačima su energetske zadruge Elektropionir iz Beograda, pioniri su malog solara u Srbiji i članovi globalne mreže mernih stanica za zagađenje vazduha.

Može li stanovanje bez pustošenja?

Stan u kome živimo igra sve ključniju ulogu u našim životima. Za mnoge je on mesto odakle rade ili mesto koje im omogućava neki nivo samostalnosti. Ipak, koliko god da je stan osnova za naš život, trenutno dominantna stanogradnja je i izvor pustošenja. Omogućena je razornim iskorištavanjem resursa, dolazi s neodrživom potrošnjom fosilnih goriva i podstiče se spekulativnom ekonomijom koji uništava sve što joj se nađe na putu.

U okviru ove sesije, prvo ćemo pokušati da procenimo koliko – u Beogradu i u Srbiji – aktuelna stanogradnja ugrožava životnu sredinu i ljude koji traže priuštivo i održivo mesto za život. Zatim, zašto je krajnje vreme raskrinkati mit da drugačije nije moguće. U tome će nam pomoći novi oblici stanovanja koji niču širom Evrope. Značajno je da većinu njih vode zajednice koje više ne žele da čekaju da se tržište ili država konačno trgnu pred izazovima, već same preuzimaju vođstvo. Kroz razumevanje potencijala koje novi oblici stanovanja donose – za našu planetu, našu budućnost i naše sopstveno finansijsko preživljavanje – postaće jasno zašto nešto tako svakodnevno kao stanovanje može biti od presudnog značaja.

Zlata Vuksanović-Macura je diplomirala na Arhitektonskom fakultetu u Beogradu, gde je i magistra i stekla zvanje doktora nauka. Njen naučni i profesionalni rad usmeren je na oblasti urbane istorije, socijalnog stanovanja, neformalne izgradnje, stanovanja i naselja Roma. Radi kao viši naučni saradnik u Geografskom institutu „Jovan Cvijić“ SANU. Karijeru je započela u NVO Društvo za unapređivanje romskih naselja, nastavila u Urbanističkom zavodu Beograda i bila koordinator za stanovanje u UN-HABITAT-u. Učestvovala je u izradi nekoliko nacionalnih strateških dokumenata iz oblasti stanovanja i socijalne inkluzije; kao stručnjak za stanovanje konsultant je nacionalnim i međunarodnim institucijama (UNOPS, OSCE, GIZ). Objavila je preko sto naučnih radova, uključujući i monografije Stanovanje i naselja Roma u jugoistočnoj Evropi, sa Vladimirom Macurom (2006), Život na ivici: stanovanje sirotinje u Beogradu 1919−1941 (2012) i Holistički pristup socijalnom stanovanju, sa timom UNOPS-a (2021).

Održivi sistem stambene podrške: programi, kapaciteti, potencijali

Stambena podrška je nov pojam koji je uveo Zakon o stanovanju i održavanju zgrada i kojim je zamenjen nekadašnji termin socijalno stanovanje. Suštinske razlike između definicije i značenja ova dva naziva ne postoje, ali je Zakon predvideo promene u institucionalnoj organizaciji pri obezbeđivanju podrške licima koja na tržištu ne mogu samostalno da obezbede stan za sebe i svoju porodicu. S druge strane, uporedo sa stambenom legislativom, u Srbiji i njenim gradovima i opštinama realizuju se stambeni programi i modeli koji su usmereni na različite grupe stanovnika, od višestruko ranjivih društvenih grupa do zaposlenih u javnoj upravi i administraciji. Šta karakteriše ove programe; Kavi su kapaciteti za njihovo sprovođenje; Kakav je potencijal i praksa lokalnih samouprava na rešavanju stambenih pitanja svojih stanovnika; Da li su primenjeni stambeni modeli održivi i da li postoji sustem stambene podrške. To su teme i pitanja o kojima će biti reči i razgovora na ovoj sesiji.

Luca Hopman is a junior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and works as an independent researcher. She received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and a master’s degree in Political and Economic Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Luca’s research themes are centred around urban sociology, social policy and changing notions of citizenship. Luca collaborates with the Transnational Institute within the Public Alternatives Programme, focusing on democratic, accountable and effective public services. Furthermore, Luca participates in the project ‘Matching Forerunner Cities’, an international research group that analyses climate change policy within European cities.

Democratic and collective ownership of public goods and services. Exploring public-community collaborations

Public ownership and governance of essential needs are key to develop a more democratic and socially just economy. Many cities and regions have devised alternatives to the dominant idea of privatisation of public goods and services. In this session, we will focus on instances in which (groups of) citizens act in collaboration with public institutions in the ownership, governance, and/or delivery of goods, utilities and services. These examples, taking place in a range of sectors, demonstrate how public-community collaborations can deliver innovative solutions where the private sector (and the public sector alone) has failed. We will look at several mechanisms and examples, from a permanent citizen observatory to collective ownership of local infrastructure, that can contribute to community-led urban transformation for a sustainable and socially just future.

Nikolina Rajković je istraživačica u Institutu za političku ekologiju (IPE). Bavi se demokratizacijom javnih servisa s naglaskom na upravljanje i radničku participaciju.

Europska godina željeznica 2021 – Prilika za promišljanje načina upravljanja?

Europski parlament je 2021. godinu proglasio godinom željeznice. Pored prigodničarskog obilježavanja, događaju se zanimljive inicijative u mahom zapadnim europskim zemljama koje na velika vrata ponovno vraćaju noćne linije i pojačavaju konkurentsku ulogu ovog najodrživijeg oblik prijevoza. S druge strane, Hrvatska se u ovoj godini protiv klimatskih promjena bori dodatnim rezanjem željezničkih linija. Raspravit ćemo neuralgične točke upravljanja željezničkim sektorom u Hrvatskoj i promisliti koji bi bio prostor demokratičnijeg i održivog upravljanja tim sektorom na europskoj poluperiferiji.

Biljana Đorđević je politikološkinja i docentkinja na Fakultetu političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu gde predaje kurseve iz oblasti savremenih političkih teorija. Oblast njenog akademskog i aktivističkog istraživanja i delovanja su savremene teorije demokratije, aktivističko građanstvo, politička etika migracija, veza demokratije i feminizma, i socijalni konstitucionalizam. Biljana je članica Malog veća političkog pokreta Ne davimo Beograd.

Odozgo, odozdo ili nešto između? Novi mehanizmi participacije u procesima donošenja odluka

Za sve više političkih aktera novi mehanizmi participacije u procesima donošenja političkih odluka postali su deo diskursa i/ili političke prakse u duhu participativnog zaokreta u demokratskoj teoriji. U predstavničkoj demokratiji građani pre svega učestvuju u izboru svojih predstavnika kao donosioca odluka dok u participativnoj demokratiji građani preuzimaju ulogu donosioca odluka. Kao što se i teoretičari razlikuju u obrazloženju važnosti političke participacije, tako i različiti akteri, od političkih partija, preko društvenih i političkih pokreta do administracije ili tink tenkova na različite načine uvažavaju značaj participacije i uključuju građane u donošenje političkih odluka.
Da li su danas svi participativisti ili postoji bojazan od kooptacije participativnih praksi? Jesu li važnije dobre namere (političko obrazovanje, politička efikasnost) ili rezultati (mobilizacija, legitimitet ili kvalitet odluka)? Tokom predavanja ću preispitati razliku između participacije odozgo i participacije odozdo oslanjajući se na autore koji prave ovu razliku ali i na primere iz zemalja poput Srbije, Španije, Irske i Čilea. Participacija odozgo je proces kada elite odnosno nadležni organi pozivaju građane da uzmu učešća u procesu donošenja odluka – demokratizacija koju usmerava potreba za (dobrim) upravljanjem. Participacija odozdo je proces u kojem društveni pokreti preosmišljavaju participativne strukture upravljanja odnosno stvaraju ove strukture tamo gde ih nema sa ciljem produbljivanja demokratije i ostvarivanja socijalne pravde.

Vedran Horvat je direktor Instituta za političku ekologiju sa sjedištem u Zagrebu od 2015. godine. On je također i član upravnog odbora Green European Foundation. Od 2005. do 2015. godine, bio je voditelj ureda Zaklade Heinrich Boll u Hrvatskoj i u tom svojstvu pokrenuo je program Zelene akademije 2010. godine, s međunarodnom ljetnom školom koja se održava na otoku Visu. Bio je član upravnog odbora Nacionalne fondacije za razvoj civilnog društva od 2012. do 2017. godine. Uredio je i napisao na desetine publikacija i članaka o pitanjima održivosti, demokratiji, migracijama, itd. Ranije je bio novinar i školovao se za sociologa sa fokusom na ljudska prava i demokratizaciju.

Socio-ekonomska perspektiva energetske tranzicije – Šta je za nas pravedna tranzicija?

U ovom predavanju fokusirat ćemo se na društvene i ekonomske aspekte energetske tranzicije, sa posebnim fokusom na pravdu. Istražit ćemo globalni, evropski i regionalni aspekti pravedne tranzicije, s ciljem da se pruži okvir za razumijevanje izvodljivosti pravedne tranzicije u post-pandemijskom kontekstu i hitnosti klimatske krize. Pored toga, posebno će se razmotriti planovi oporavka i European Green Deal kao instrumenti EU za podsticanje ekološke tranzicije ekonomije, sa kritičkom perspektivom o njenim ograničenjima i pogreškama.

Vladimir Đurđević je vanredni profesor Fizičkog fakulteta u Beogradu, gde je završio sve nivoe studija. Bio je gostujući istraživač u „National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)“; „Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)“ ; „Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa“; „Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics (ICoD) of the University of Malta“. Učestvovao je u više međunarodnih naučnoistraživačkih projekata finasiranih iz fondova EU-H2020, EU-FP, IPA, JRC, IOC-UNESCO i GEF. Učesnik je inicijative Med-CORDEX. Кao ekspert i konsultant, bio je koautor nacionalnih izveštaja o klimi prema UNFCCC za Srbiju, BiH, Crnu Goru, Makedoniju i Brazil. Njegova ekspertiza je numeričko modeliranje klime, analiza klimatskih podataka, analiza uticaja klimatskih promena, procena rizika, procena ranjivosti i prilagođavanje na klimatske promene. Pored akademske karijere održao je i niz javnih predavanja o klimatskim promenama.

Zašto nam je potrebno ugljenično neutralno društvo?

Jedini način zaustavljanja klimatskih promena, izazvanih antropogenim aktivnostima, jeste obaranje globalnih emisija gasova sa efektom staklene bašte do nivoa neto nulte emisije, odnosno transformacija ka ugljenično neutralnom društvom. Ovaj jasno, i reklo bi se jednostavno formulisan zahtev, u kome se očekuje široka participacija na svim nivoima, verovatno će predstavljati jedan od najvećih izazova sa kojim će se globalno društvo suočiti u narednim decenijama. Obim nepovoljnih konsekvenci u budućnosti, koje već ostvaruju značajan pritisak na prirodu i društvo, kao što su učestala pojava suša i ekstremno visokih temperatura, poplava, požara, zatim dalje topljenje ledenog pokrivača i porast nivoa globalnog okeana, zavisiće od brzine obaranja emisija. Prema trenutnim procenama neto nulte emisije koje bi potencijalno mogle biti ostvarene sredinom ovog veka omogućile bi zaustavljanje daljeg porasta prosečne globalne temperature ispod granice od 2 stepena. Uspešna realizacija ovako ambicioznog plana, čiji su prvi obrisi danas vidljivi i a njegova realizacija polako postaje merljiva, zavisiće od mnogo činilaca, ali prepoznavanje sopstvene uloge u njima, biće sigurno od velike važnosti.

Mirjana Jovanović je inženjerka pejzažne arhitekture koja se bavi zelenim javnim politikama. Fokus interesovanja su joj klimatske promene, dekarbonizacija, energetska tranzicija, demokratizacija i učešće javnosti u donošenju odluka.
U Beogradskoj otvorenoj školi je programska menadžerka za oblast Energija, klima i životna sredina. Zadužena je za razvoj programske oblasti, rukovođenje timom, osmišljavanje, monitoring i koordinaciju projekata u oblasti zaštite životne sredine, energije i klimatskih promena.
Završila je master studije u oblasti upravljanja životnom sredinom i energetskom efikasnošću na Tvente Univerzitetu u Holandiji. Prethodno je diplomirala na Odseku za pejzažnu arhitekturu Šumarskog fakulteta u Beogradu.

Odozgo, odozdo ili nešto između? Novi mehanizmi participacije u procesima donošenja odluka

“Pariski sporazum je bio globalno rukovanje nad dogovorom – bićemo ugljenično neutralni, da bi nas moglo biti.

Nakon toga, države su jedna za drugom počele da donose planove za dekarbonizaciju i postizanje ugljenične neutralnosti do 2050. godine.Japan, Britanija i preko 110 drugih država su objavile planove za zero-carbon ekonomiju. Kina je najavila postizanje ugljenične neutralnosti do 2060. godine. Ovo možda zvuči manje ambiciozno od ciljeva Britanije, na primer, ali imajući u vidu ogromu kinesku ekonomiju i ogroman ugljenični otisak koji ona ima – ovo je za sada najambiciozniji plan za dekarbonizaciju.

Usvajanjem Zelenog dogovora, kao krovne razvojne strategije, Ervopska unija je trasirala put ka dubokoj transformaciji svih grana ekonomije u cilju dostizanja ugljenične neutralnosti do 2050. godine. Energetika, poljoprivreda, građevina, industrija, obrazovanje – sve oblasti društva treba da se transformišu u tom cilju. Kao nastavak Zelenog dogovora u spoljnoj politici, Evropska unija je donela Zelenu agendu za Zapadni Balkan, koja prenosi ambicije Zelenog dogovora na zemlje kandidate za članstvo. U novembru 2020. godine Premijerka Republike Srbije je potpisala Zelenu agendu za Zapadni Balkan, čime je Srbija potvrdila svoje strateško opredeljenje za dekarbonizaciju.

U julu 2021. godine Evropska unija predstavlja taksu na uvozni ugljenik (tzv. Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism), kojim će sav uvoz na jedinstveno tržište biti opterećen dodatnom taksom na ime emitovanih emisija ugljenika nastalih tokom proizvodnje i transporta. Srbija gotovo 70% svog celokupnog izvoza plasira na tržište EU.

Da li Srbija kroz svoje unutrašnje javne politike zapravo zaista planira da sutra postane ugljenično neutralna? Ili za sutra malo planira?

Vuk Vuković je sociolog i istorijski materijalista. Živi i radi u Beogradu. Predsednik je prvog granskog sindikata u IKT sektoru u Srbiji (Unitech Srbija), u okviru koga sa grupom sjajnih ljudi radi na organizovanju radnika u IKT firmama. Izvršni je urednik srpskog izdanja Le Monde diplomatique, a često piše za domaće i regionalne medije (Bilten, Odiseja, Novi Plamen, LeftEast). Duži niz godina bio je aktivan u različitim samostalnim inicijativama (studentskim, samoobrazovnim, teorijskim i političkim).

Samoorganizovanje: osvrt na poslednje dve decenije

Sesija je podeljena na tri dela. U prvom, uvodnom delu, biće govora najpre o nekim osnovnim određenjima samoorganizovanja i različitim mogućim tumačenjima, kako bi se postavili dobri parametri za dalju diskusiju. Drugi deo će najvećim delom biti osvrt i refleksija o samoorganizovanju u poslednje dve decenije, sa naglaskom na glavne probleme i izazove s kojima su se takvi pokušaji suočavali, kao i na glavna pitanja na koja je trebalo naći odgovor. Treći, ujedno i najduži deo, biće otvorena razmena i diskusija po ovim pitanjima s namerom da se podvuče crta u odnosu na dosadašnju praksu i formulišu smernice za dalji rad i razvoj ovog važnog oblika političke i društvene delatnosti.

Filip je inženjer, istraživač i aktivista, stvara multimedije, razvija kampanje, okuplja ljude i gikuje. Uglavnom se bavi tehnologijom i društvom, a trenutno najviše pitanjima privatnosti i bezbednosti u sajber-prostoru kroz projekte #hiljadekamera, share_bbs (podkast) i Cyberama (livestream).

Samoorganizovanje: osvrt na poslednje dve decenije

Prvi deo sesije diskutujemo o tome koliko smo ranjivi u digitalnom prostoru, što može biti blago deprimirajuće za početak, ali je veoma važno za sve koji žele da prave promene. Ipak, dobro je da postoje jednostavne tehnike i alati za digitalnu higijenu koje svako može da uvede u rutinu i dovede svoju bezbednost na visok nivo. U drugom delu se osvrćemo na kampanju #hiljadekamera i na to kako smo uspeli da mobilišemo zajednicu oko problema masovnog biometrijskog nadzora, pa čak i donekle izađemo iz balona civilnog društva kreirajući kontra-narativ u javnosti o tome da li želimo pametne kamere koje nam prepoznaju lica.

Aleksandra Lakić je istraživačica i programska koordinatorka Platforme za teoriju i praksu društvenih dobara – Zajedničko gde radi na razvijanju i implementacija projekata u oblasti ekonomske demokratije, nestandandarnog rada i zadružnog organizovanja. Diplomirala je na Fakultetu političkih nauka, Univerzitet u Beogradu, a master studije u oblasti društvenih nauka završila je na Humboldt Univerzitetu u Berlinu.

Saša Savanović se bavi pisanjem proze i esejistike, istraživačkim i teorijskim radom. Članica je kolektiva Zajedničko gde istražuje alternativne ekonomske paradigme poput ekonomske demokratije i ekonomije zajedničkih dobara kao i savremene transformacije rada i države. Diplomirala je na Fakultetu političkih nauka u Beogradu, a master studije sociologije završila na Berlinskom Freie Univerzitetu. Kratke priče, esejistiku, istraživačke i teorijske radove je objavljivala u različitim domaćim i stranim časopisima, zbrikama i zbornicima.

Budućnost radne regulacije

Neoliberalna i digitalna transformacija rada, koja podrazumeva prelazak sa standardnih na nestandardne oblike radnog angažmana, u poslednje tri decenije je postala široko rasprostranjena širom sveta. U Srbiji svaki treći radnik/ca radi u jednom od oblika nestandardnog zaposlenja. Pored “tradicionalnih” nestandardnih oblika, kao što su rad sa skraćenim radnim vremenom i rad na određeno vreme, u porastu su oblici koji do sada ili nisu postojali ili nisu postojali u svim sektorima, kako je to danas slučaj (samostalni rad, agencijski rad, rad na platformama, sezonski rad itd.). Digitalna revolucija takođe je omogućila rad na daljinu, koji sve više uzima maha. Nestandardni rad je u velikoj meri izjednačen sa prekarnim radom koji pored nesigurnosti u smislu zaposlenja podrazumeva i lošiji pristup socijalnim i radnim pravima.

Imajući u vidu promene do kojih dolazi u oblasti rada, postavlja se pitanje u kojoj meri postojeće institucije mogu da pruže adekvatan odgovor na rastuću prekarizaciju i fleksibilizaciju rada i radnih odnosa. Promene do kojih dolazi na tržištu rada nisu praćene izmenama javnih politika koje bi omogućile jednak pristup radnim pravima, ekonomsku i socijalnu sigurnost za sve radnike/ce bez obzira na vrstu angažmana. Sistem socijalne i radne zaštite i dalje je vezan za “standardno” zaposlenje koje podrazumeva radni odnos sa punim radnim vremenom i na neodređeno vreme. Ovakav pristup je nedovoljno inkluzivan za nove forme rada i neprilagođen promenama do kojih dolazi usled globalne integracije tržišta rada.

U ovoj radionicu ćemo postaviti pitanje budućnosti regulacije rada, naročito imajući u vidu da se radnici/e sve češće regrutuju na globalnom tržištu rada, kao i da se države u mnogome vode politikama koje za cilj imaju smanjenje cene rada. U prvom delu radionice rasvetlićemo odnos nestandardnog i prekarnog rada, predstaviti neke od osnovnih formi nestandardnih radnih odnosa i ukazati na faktore koji doprinose njihovom porastu. U drugom delu radionice kroz grupni rad diskutovaćemo i zajednički promišljati o različitim regulativnim pristupima za unapređenje položaja nestandardnih radnika/ca.

Josip Jagić – diplomirao modernu i suvremenu povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 2015. Bavio se istraživanjem struktura partizanskog otpora u Jugoslaviji tijekom Drugog svjetskog rata. Kao student sudjelovao u studentskoj borbi za besplatno i svima dostupno obrazovanje. Od 2014. do 2019. godine bio član Mreže antifašistkinja Zagreba i Baze za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju. Od 2015. do 2019. bio član uprave Nogometnog kluba Mladost iz Kloštra Podravskog te predsjednik povezane Škole nogometa. Trenutno zaposlen u Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe.

Institucije solidarnosti

Ako je solidarnost jedan od ključnih mehanizama putem kojeg se stvaraju i održavaju društvene veze onda vrijedi promisliti kako se točno taj proces odvija u kontekstu progresivne politike. U razgovoru o solidarnosti i njenoj suvremenoj političkoj primjeni promislit ćemo o tome što uopće solidarnost znači, kako se ona materijalno manifestira i organizira te koji je politički potencijal njene primjene. Razgovor će se temeljiti na suvremenim primjerima progresivnih subjekata i njihovih borbi gdje je upravo solidarnost bila mehanizam putem kojeg su se one integrirale, transformirale i osnaživale.

Ivana Anđelković ima višegodišnje iskustvo u političkom organizovanju i radu sa ugroženim grupama. Poslednjih godina se bavi stanovanjem i aktivistkinja je Krova nad glavom u okviru koga obavlja posao sekretara, a najviše je zanima da radi na institucionalizaciji znanja i praksi i organizovanju interne edukacije. Stanovanjem je počela da se bavi u inostranstvu. Radila je i živela u nekoliko okupiranih kuća u Milanu i Madridu. Osim što je učestvovala u sprečavanju prinudnih iseljenja i održavanju okupiranih kuća, radila je na otvorenom univerzitetu sa imigrantima, u organizaciji direktnih akcija i događaja edukativnog i propagandnog tipa. Završila je psihologiju u Beogradu i sociologiju u Londonu. Trenutno se bavi proučavanjem restitucije stambenih objekata u Srbiji u okviru jednog međunarodnog projekta i uporednom analizom podstanarskih borbi u Evropi, a volela bi da Krov nad glavom proširi svoje delovanje i postane stambeni sindikat.

Organizacija pomoći – punjenje vreće bez dna ili neophodan alat u borbi levih političkih grupa

Združena akcija Krov nad glvaom već 4 godine organizuje akcije odbrane ljudi od prinudnih iseljenja. Pitanje koje nam često postavljaju je čemu beskrajne odbrane od iseljenja kad one ne vode nikakvoj promeni. Naš odgovor je nedvosmislen – da nije bilo odbrana, ne biste ni znali da se iseljenja dešavaju, kako ona izgledaju i na osnovu toga možemo da vršimo pritisak i na izvršitelje i na zakonodavca. Prošle godine su se usled pandemije korone i vandrednog stanja pojavile razne nove grupe koje su organizovale prikupljanje i distribuciju pomoći za najugroženije u vidu novca, hrane, paketa, a i Krov je bio među njima. Moglo bi se postaviti isto pitanje i za to i možda dati isti odgovor. A možda i ne bi.

Ovo pitanje smo sebi puno puta postavljali. Da li je deljenje pomoći milostinja ili solidarnost? Koja je razlika između odbrane od iseljenja i deljenja pomoći? Kako šira javnost reaguje na jedno i na drugo, a kako sami “primaoci” podrške i zašto? Šta od ova dva doprinosi našim političkim ciljevima, a šta ih koči? Osim što je bitno razmišljati o tome koja je uloga ovakvih akcija u postizanju političkih ciljeva koje smo sebi postavili, sa njima je povezan i niz svakodnevnih pitanja o kojima u početku ne razmišljamo. Gde je u praksi granica između pružanja pomoći i solidarnosti? Kad se završava pružanje pomoći i za koga? Gde su naše granice, pojedinačne i kolektivne? Šta nas u nama samima koči da ih uspostavimo? Čega se plašimo u jednom i drugom slučaju? Veoma često prilikom upuštanja u aktivističke poduhvate ne razmišljamo o sopstvenim kapacitetima i resursima kojima raspolažemo, a oni često usmeravaju naše aktivnosti i određuju naše ciljeve i prioritete.

Želimo da u ovoj diskusiji podelimo zaključke i prakse koje smo usvojili u Krovu nad glavom, kao i onima koje smo odbacili, a na preseku ciljeva i sopstvenih mogućnosti. Želeli bismo da u diskusiji čujemo i drugačija iskustva i viđenja ovih pitanja koja su zajednička levim aktivističkim organizacijama.

Aleksa Petković, politikolog, rođen i odrastao u Užicu, živi u Beogradu. Radi kao sindikalni organizator u granskom sindikatu Unitech Srbija. Član je pokreta Ne davimo Beograd.

Organizujmo se – kako?

Cilj sesije je da učesnicima ponudi znanje i alate koji će im pomoći u organizovanju – sindikata, lokalnih inicijativa, pokreta. Proći ćemo osnove organizovanja sa vežbama. Razgovaraćemo o iskustvima organizovanja u Srbiji i regionu. Pored teorijskog, imaćemo i praktični deo (vežbaćemo da razgovaramo sa ljudima u različitim scenarijima).

Nataša Čorbić je politikolog i aktivistkinja, posvećena razumevanju društvenih promena. Vodeći se željom da doprinese osnaživanju ljudi u Srbiji da drže svoje vlade odgovornim, radila je u različitim sektorima, od medija i civilnog društva do Vlade Republike Srbije i međunarodnih organizacija, na pitanjima koja pokrivaju proces evropskih integracija, antidiskriminaciju, decentralizaciju, organizovanje zajednica i dobro upravljanje. Najproduktivnije godine njene karijere povezane su sa osnivanjem i aktivnim članstvom u OCD “Srbija u pokretu”, jer je sa grupom proaktivnih prijatelja počela da živi ono u šta veruje: da mala grupa promišljenih, posvećenih građana može promeniti svet.
Magistrirala je na temi evropske politike i upravljanja na LSE. Završila je Harvard Executive Education Program „Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change“ pod mentorstvom prof. Maršala Ganca (Marshall Ganz).
Trener je i kouč za radionice “Organizovanje zajednice” i “Javni narativ”. Đorđeva je mama.

Javni narativ: kako da motivišem druge na akciju?

Društvene promene traže da na izazove sa kojima su suočene naše zajedničke vrednosti odgovorimo svrsishodnim delovanjem. Oni pojedinci koji preuzimaju odgovornost da to urade (da osposobe druge da ostvare zajedničku svrhu u vremenima neizvesnot) mogu da koriste javni narativ kako bi iskomunicirali zašto je vražno da delujemo baš mi i baš sada. Javni narativ je veština koja nam pomaže da pristupimo emocionalnim resursima potrebnim za komunikaciju o tome zašto sam ja pozvan/pozvana da vodim (priča o sebi), koje vrednosti deli moja zajednica (priča o nama) i koji izazovi prete našim zajedničkim vrednostima te je zbog toga neophodno da krenemo u akciju (priča o sada). Emocionalna sposobnost delovanja (jedan od načina da se razume engl. „agency“) zahteva da pristupimo nadi da bismo prevazišli strah, empatiji da bismo prevazišli otuđenost i da razumemo sopstvenu vrednost da bismo prevazišli sumnju u sebe.
Budući da uključuje strategiju i motivaciju, javni narativ podučava i inspiriše, učeći nas ne samo kako treba da se ponašamo, već i podstičući nas da delujemo. To nije samo javni nastup, razmena poruka ili pravljenje slika. To je narativ koji omogućava drugima da pristupe moralnim ili emocionalnim resursima kako bi delovali svrsishodno u uslovima neizvesnosti.
Narativ je način na koji prenosimo svoje vrednosti kroz priče, oživljavajući motivaciju koja je neophodan preduslov za promenu sveta.”

rena Fiket je naučna saradnica na Institutu za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju Univerziteta u Beogradu i aktivistkinja inicijative Ne Davimo Beograd. Doktorirala je političke nauke i sociologiju na Univerzitetu “La Sapienza” a postdoktorske studije provela je na Univerzitetu u Sijeni, Oslu, Bolonji i Firenci. Objavila je više desetina naučnih radova na teme građanske participacije, aktivističkog građanstva, deliberativne demokratije i rodne ravnopravnosti. Tokom petnaestogodišnjeg boravka u Italiji učestvovala je u inicijativama za institucionalizaciju inovativnih modela građanske participacije na lokalnom nivou. Radila je na analizi i sprovođenju eksperimentalnog zakona Regije Toskana o građanskoj participaciji. Trenutno rukovodi evropskom Jean Monnet mrežom posvećenom izučavanju i promovisanju aktivnog građanstva na Zapadnom Balkanu, a članica je, i jedna od osnivačica, Stalne grupe za demokratske inovacije pri Evropskom konzorcijumu za politička istraživanja.

Kako i zašto do učešća građana u donošenju političkih odluka

U okviru radionice pokušaćemo zajedno, kroz diskuiju, da dođemo do odgovora na pitanja Kako uključiti građane i građanke u pocese donošenja političkih odluka i zbog čega je to značajno?
Radionica će se fokusirati na dileme koje proizilaze iz pretpostavki, zanovanih kako na teorijskim postulatima tako i na empirijskim uvidima, o neinformisanosti i nezainteresovanosti građanstva da uzme učešće u političkom životu zajednica te njegovoj apatiji i pasivnosti. Pokušaćemo zajedno da sagledmo ove probleme iz drugačije perspektive, zasnovane pre svega na viziji participativne i deliberativne demokratije koja nam ukazuje na to da je građanstvo moguće mobilisati da učestvuje u političkom životu, da je znanje koje građanstvo poseduje veoma značajno za formulisanje političkih odluka ali i da uključivanje građanstva zapravo pravi protivtežu populističkim narativima koji se zasnivaju na ponudi pojednostavljenih, „lako prihvatljivih“, rešenja. Kroz primere učešća građana u vaninstitucionalnim i institucionalnim političkim arenama, tokom radionice ćemo pokušati da bolje razumemo koji su to faktori koji dovode do pasivnosti građanstva i samim tim kako omogućiti da se građanstvo oseća dovoljno motivisano i kompetentno da uzme učešće u političkom životu zajednice. Sva ova pitanja, dakle, raspravljaće se kroz referentni okvir participativne demokratije ali će fokus pre svega biti na praktičnim primenama i institucionalizaciji participativnih modela demokratije.

Natalija Simović se bavi aktivizmom preko 10 godina u oblastima kulture, socijalne zaštite, i ženskih prava. U svojoj profesionalnoj ulozi osmišljava strategije podrške grupama da aktivno doprinose promenama u svojim zajednicama širom Srbije. U Ne Davimo Beograd-u je od osnivanja, jedna je od pokretačica Ženske grupe, a trenutno je članica Malog veća. U okviru Evropske municipalističke mreže učestvuje u razvijanju feminizacije politike u praksi političkih pokreta.

Natalija Stojmenović je programska koordinatorka u Ne davimo Beograd. Završila je politikologiju na FPNu, gde je trenutno na masteru Politička analitika i društvene promene. Trenutno je deo više inicijativa: Inicijativa za čist vazduh, sprečavanje izgradnje spalionice u Vinči, Ujedinjeni Balkan za čist vazduh. Deo je Evropske municipalističke mreže gde radi na projektu Feminizacije politike. Ko-autorka je publikacije: Rizik javni-profit privatni gde je analizirala javno-privatna partnerstva u Srbiji.

Feminizacija politike ili kako transformisati političko delovanje iznutra?

Radikalna demokratija je ključna za istinsku i održivu promenu u bilo kom aktivizmu, od borbe za klimatske promene do odbrane socijalnih prava ili borbe za održivu ekonomiju. Odluke donose ljudi koji su problemima pogođeni i koji su po pravilu isključeni iz procesa donošenja odluka. Feminizacija politike je jedan od preduslova radikalne demokratije, jer uz pomoć nje negujemo kolektivnu inteligenciju i suštinsko uključivanje svih. Feminizacija politike promoviše one vrednosti koje su tradicionalno zapostavljenje u političkom životu kao što su strpljivo traženje konsenzusa,empatija, kolektivno liderstvo i briga.

U toku radionice fokusiraćemo se na načine na koje radimo stvari: političke procese , a ne samo sadržaje naših vrednosti i politika. Drugim rečima, nećemo se baviti feminističkim politikama orijentisanim ka spolja (iako su one iznimno važne) već svakodnevnim praksama u organizovanju i na koji način one transformišu nas same, jer promena struktura, međuljudskih odnosa, jezika kojim se služimo, vremena i prioritizacije su ključni elementi feminizacije politike. Na praktičan način obradićemo 7 ključnih dimenzija feminizacije politike koje su koncipirane na osnovu uporednih praksi političkih pokreta u Evropi.