During this course – which will take place as a Field School in the region of Molise, Italy – we want to actively explore the alternatives to and within our current economic system through practical examples, engagement, and self-reflection. We will do this in three ways: via visiting and engaging with different examples of economic activities at different scales (e.g. economies of small and large scale, artisanal and profit orientation, paid and unpaid labour); via living and participating in a community economy and studying the different components that contribute to its “making a living” (e.g., resiliency practices such as foraging, storing, DIY, but also migration and local revitalization strategies); and through the active reflection of our own activities, which we create as part of the Field School. Key aspects of the Field School will be field trips; for example to a small scale artisanal wine producer and a home made wine production; a small scale family cheese making operation and a small scale industrial cheese factory; or examples of permaculture, homesteading, and family run olive productions. We will also talk to local people about their house-holding, cooperation, sharing, and gifting practices, and undertake participant observation at the piazza, local markets, and in families.

Kurs im HIS-LSF