Speaker: Silke Helfrich

Silke Helfrich (Germany) has studied romance languages and pedagogy at the Karl-Marx-University in Leipzig. Since mid of the 1990s activities in the field of development politics, from 1996 to 1998 head of Heinrich Böll Foundation Thuringia and from 1999 to 2007 head of the regional office of Heinrich Böll Foundation for Central America, Cuba and Mexico focusing on globalisation, gender and human rights. She works as independent author and activist, working with a variety of international partners. Helfrich is the editor and co-author of several books on the Commons, among them: Who Owns the World? The Rediscovery of the Commons, Munich 2009 (in: Genes, Bytes y Emisiones. Bienes Comunes y Ciudadania, Mexico-City 2008), editor of Elinor Ostrom: Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen, Munich 2011; with Heinrich-Böll-Foundation: Commons. Für eine neue Politik jenseits von Markt und Staat, Bielefeld 2012 (together with David Bollier: The Wealth of the Commons beyond Market and State, Amherst/MA, 2012 in 2015: Patterns of Commoning, and in 2019 Free, Fair, and Alive The Insurgent Power of the Commons). She is the primary author of the German speaking CommonsBlog and Co-Founder of Commons-Institut in Germany.

Organised by:
Civic Action for Public Participation (www.peoplesbylaw.wordpress.com)
School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT)
Heinrich Böll Foundation

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For direction: Faranaaz.bennett@uct.ac.za

Free, Fair, and Alive
The Insurgent Power of the Commons
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