Next Saturday, December 17 from 12 to 2 PM we present The Revenge of the Peripheries. Political Economy and Culture in L’Hospitalet , a new course from
Nociones Comunes
organized by LaFundició in collaboration with
La Hidra Cooperativa
and with contributions from various social and cultural agents from L’Hospitalet.
In this session, we will present the general orientation of the course and the contents of the 5 sessions that compose it, which will take place between January and February 2017 in various spaces in L’Hospitalet. The session will end with a vermouth 😉
Nociones Comunes is a project of the
Fundación de los Comunes
, with activity nodes in Madrid, Pamplona, Málaga, Zaragoza, Terrassa, Santander and Barcelona, until now.
Nociones Comunes is a political and critical self-training project composed of courses aimed at all those people who want to collectively build ways of thinking and acting aimed at transforming reality.
PRESENTATION OF THE GENERAL COURSE CONTENT
Urban peripheries and the working class are back in fashion. The media blame them for the great “shocks” of the last year: from Brexit to the triumph of Donald Trump, passing through the growth of the “threat” Le Pen in France. Here we are no strangers to the upheavals: the Catalonia that one day was red, today goes from the orange of Ciudadanos to the purple of Podemos without blinking. But what realities are hidden beyond the vote? Although journalists, “experts” and politicians of different stripes speak of inequality and discomfort, indignation and rage, the truth is that almost no one bothers to listen to what the people of the neighborhoods say and do. In urban Catalonia, everything that goes beyond the center of Barcelona is practically invisible: it does not exist.
There is no greater symptom of that deafening silence than L’Hospitalet. How is it possible that so little is known about the second city of Catalonia? Almost nothing is known about what it lives on, what are the cultural traits of its inhabitants, their economic and political problems. It would seem that living under the shadow of Barcelona, which absorbs everything, practically serves as a pretext to avoid facing one’s own contradictions.
This course is born from the shared desire to put an end to such a curious law of silence. We start from a simple but resounding premise: the Catalan peripheries are the privileged terrain on which the economic and cultural model that regulates our lives has been based. All its contradictions are expressed in them, both the divine and the profane.
Throughout five sessions braided by luxury guests and organized groups, we will face a variety of crucial issues: what is the political economy that has been configured in the metropolitan territory and around what discourses; what relationship have the various generations of migrants had with the dominant society and what type of cultural hegemony has been structured; what role does the school play in the reproduction of inequalities; what challenges does organized society face in neighborhood movements and community initiatives. It is, therefore, about taking the pulse of the famous international of blocks. To refine the analysis collectively to be able to think, in short, about the “what to do”.