Knowledge and practices that have in turn articulated a way of feeling and being in the world that has resisted the logic of Western, capitalist, and white modernity. From a Roma perspective, the Keras Buti project explores the ways in which knowledge and culture can be articulated with forms of economy that put life at the center, and in particular from the practice of the social and solidarity economy.
Keras Buti proposes to recover and update knowledge and practices historically linked to and constitutive of the Rromanipen
The Keras Buti project was initially promoted in 2018 by the Roma association of l’Hospitalet Lacho Baji Cali and the LaFundició cooperative. In 2019, both entities constitute the Keras Buti Association.
Keras Buti proposes to recover and update knowledge and practices historically linked to and constitutive of the Rromanipen, relating them to other epistemologies and economies with which it shares its counter-hegemonic character, such as peasant cultures and economies or the social and solidarity economy. The project aims to recover practices and knowledge linked to the Roma people without folklorizing them, but, on the contrary, updating them so that they make sense and are useful to contemporary material and symbolic needs, with baxtalipen (happiness, fortune).
Keras Buti promotes the recognition of this knowledge and practices in the dominant social and institutional context. The project’s lines of work are critical popular education and ecofeminism, food sovereignty, and good living.
