PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS:
SELF-MANAGEMENT FROM ARGENTINA TO THE BALKANS
Week 1: Vision for the course and general ideas of Self-Management and Freedom
Week 2: Global Glimpses of Self-Management
(Argentina 1920s, Seattle 1919, Portugal 1970s, Hungary 1910s, Russia 1910s, Iran 1970s … and more)
Week 3: Spain 1930s – Factories and Land
(A viewing of Land and Freedom will be organized outside of class time)
Week 4: Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1950s-1980s
Week 5: Contemporary Latin America: Self-management and Autogestión
(Argentina, Chiapas Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay and Brazil)
(A viewing of The Take will be organized outside of class time)
Week 6: Historic Challenges to Self-management and Autogestión
(Selected interviews with participants in self-management in Yugoslavia and Argentina, as well as various articles reflecting on the role of hierarchy, bureaucracy and the state.)
Week 7: Participatory Budgeting – Historically and Contemporarily
(Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Europe, and the United States)
(Josh Lerner guest speaker)
Week 8: Parecon
(Participatory economics)
Week 9: Coops, infoshops, social centers, community gardens, and other contemporary visions … are they self-management?
(A viewing of Three cooperative Workplaces will be organized outside of class time)