Son[i]a #267
Maria Eugenia Rodriguez Palop
We cannot create an equal society without making community, and making community requires knowing and respecting what the community in question thinks, need, wants, and values. María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop contends that it is possible to achieve this through a politics of the commons based on more and better democratic participation, the redistribution of wealth, decentralisation and self-governance, identity and recognition, and the feminisation of public space. In other words, on a politics of the commons that revolves around life and relational law, in which civil rights coexist with political, social, and environmental rights. María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop is a jurist, teacher, researcher, essayist, and columnist.
In this podcast, María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop talks about “new municipalism” as a strategy and a springboard from which to stand up to neoliberal policies and start to recover public and common goods, and about the need to adapt justice and human rights to citizen empowerment. She also talks about the left’s failure to reconcile problems of redistribution and recognition – and the consequences of this incapacity in the Catalan context – and about the need to recognise ourselves as vulnerable, interdependent beings, and to adapt our public policies accordingly, from a feminist activist perspective.
Marcelo Expósito
In FONS ÀUDIO #59, artist, writer and activist Marcelo Expósito revisits his work in the MACBA Collection Photowritings 2011-2019 (Dedicated to Allan Sekula), a personal, sometimes intimate look at a series of collective experiences of self-determination and resistance. Marcelo talks about demonstrations, mass events and the occupation of public space, but also about micropolitical space and forms of bonding, empathy and solidarity.
Yayo Herrero
Yayo Herrero talks about different forms of ecofeminsim, about the political management of desires, expectations, and needs, about the importance of reproductive work and the need to find new patterns of social and institutional co-responsibility, and about the management of the commons.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Miren Etxezarreta that we were unable to include the first time around.
Miren Etxezarreta
The writer and economist Miren Etxezarreta dismantles the false myth of the pensions crisis and explores new financing strategies. She also analyses the cooptation dynamics of neoliberalism, the recent rise of the right, and the crisis of the left, and discusses new citizen action strategies.