Here we collect information about the Zapatistas", mainly about their their cosmovision, concepts and language, because language matters.
A world where many worlds fit.
# Legal Status and Location?
- name the legal status and add a link if available - Mexico
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# 1. Which Core Dimensions of Commoning are enacted?
add a short description, then name the ones you've identified out of the list of our 8 dimensions that are met and another list with those that are irrelevant and/or not met; if not sure, you can add an asterix to the dimension you've doubts about
Cultivating Shared Purpose and Values - World-Making in a Pluriverse* - Situated Knowing - Care-Honoring - Creatively Adaptive - Entangled With Nature - Strengthening the Nested-I* - Celebrate Success, Failure & Togetherness*
# 2. How does Provisioning through commons occur?
Which elements of Provisioning through Commons are present, and how? Be as concrete as possible, even storytelling might fit!
Pool & Share - Cap & Share or Mutualize - Produce Cosmo-Locally - Use Convivial Tools - Decouple Giving & Taking - Rely on Distributed Structures - Protext & Extend Value Sovereignity - Direct Capital to Commons Provisioning - Establish Discrimination-Free Infrastructures
# 2.a Use Convivial Tools Single out which kind of tools are used and tag them with: Constituting Tools and/or Knowledge Creation and/or Socializing Tools and/or Infrastructures and/or Finance and/or Laws
# 3. Self-Governance in the Commons # 3.a Governing Internal Relations add a short description or name the ones you've identified out of the list of our 7 dimensions
Relationalize Property - Develop Shared Purpose & Values - Assure Inclusiveness but Set Semi-Permeable Boundaries - Assure Commoner's Consent in Decisionmaking - Honor Transparency in a Sphere of Trust - Share Knowledge Often and Widely - Self-Monitor, Mediate & Sanction
# Governing External Relations Proceed the same way selecting from the following dimensions
Beat the Bounds - Emulate & Then Federate - Create Polycentric Democracies - Accept State Oversight & Support as Needed
# 4. Inner Kernel
Aspirational goals: build "a world, where many worlds fit", it's like polycultivation, i.e.
"polyculture in the milpa and in the municipality." (Quincy Raul)
"Behind ourselves we are you."
- Metaphors: usually taken from nature, the most important one is the "caracol", snail. - Epistemology: - Rationality: coin it according to the preestablished list of rationality-types
add the websites, documents and media you've drawn upon
# See also Councils of Good Government, Mayan Forestry Gardens
# Sources
Quincy Saul (2016): Resurgent Mexico, in Counterpunch article ] Zapatista Army of National Liberation, [https://en.wikipedia.org