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IkarianComm Docs

The Ikarian Commons Documentation Project

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A fence at Atheras. Photo by Ch. Malachias.

Related Projects and Partnerships: IkarianDocs, PanicHos Docs Project, Monuments of Nature Doc Project (MoNature Docs), The Methodologies of the Commons Project..

Project Title: Ikarian Commons Documentation Project

Project Description: documentation of the long history of community management of natural resources and customary property regimes, formal and informal institutions of self-governance, tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Ikaria.

Aim of Project: facilitate reseach and action projects that shed light on the tensions regarding natural resource use, especially those arising from processes of economic development and green transition. Facilitate the development of a Community Protocol and contribute to legal struggles for state recognition of the ages-old community property regime in islands of the Northern Aegean.

Outputs: articles for the local press, co-authored academic articles, panel and roundtable discussions in academic conferences. More expected outcomes: educational material and art-projects..

Duration of project: ongoing (2014- ).

A window into our work

The IkarianComm Docs Project
The IkarianComm Docs Project
The IkarianComm Docs Project
A Greek case study on pastoralism at Ikaria (co-authorship with members of the BeleLex Research Team).
Collaboration with the BeneLex Research Team for interdisciplinary research on the commons.
The Touch/Memories of Displacement Project.
Partnership with the Vegera Project
The 1st Ikarian Writing Retreat on the Methodologies of the Commons Project
The PanicHosDoc Project
Collaboration with the Mataroa Initiative & The Dialogues Project

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