The Common Man Study Program «Ruralidades, Feminismos e Comúns» (PEMAN) was born from the need to create a space for thought and analysis on how the community management model that the more than 2,900 Communities of Neighborhood Forests in Mano Común de Galicia carried out can be transferred to other areas.
This initiative has been promoted by the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) through the HISTAGRA research group and the seven research groups that are part of the ReVOLTA network, coordinated by the contemporary creation collective Montenoso and the participation of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo (MARCO), and the Communities of mountains of Vincios (Gondomar) and O Carballo. And it had the support of the Franco-Spanish Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation.
The PEMAN was a space for the exchange and production of knowledge, becoming a peer-to-peer network promoted by different artistic groups, collectives and research entities, which came together to collaborate in the construction of new narratives and readings around the three epistemic axes: commons, ruralities and feminisms. The Study Program itself replicated / translated the management and governance mechanisms of the neighborhood forests in a common hand, allowing the participants in the same to self-manage the Program itself, guaranteeing good governance of the same, as well as the community members. They do it with a neighborhood mountain, The Program promoted a research and action community and different sessions were developed in it throughout 2016/2017.
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