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Helfrich participated in and co-founded multiple commons-related initiatives. She created her Commons Blog in 2007,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-01 |title=CommonsBlog |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101130628/https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> writing regularly since then on the topic. From there, she argued in favor of commons as a process, "commoning" as a new narrative,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Helfrich |first=Silke |date=2009-10-01 |title=The Commons as a new narrative for the 21 century |url=https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/the-commons-as-a-new-narrative-for-the-21-century/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=CommonsBlog |language=de-DE}}</ref> and supported commons-oriented initiatives worldwide and in multiple languages.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Helfrich |first=Silke |date=2009-12-23 |title=Fortalecer los bienes comunes. ¡Ahora! |url=https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/fortalecer-los-bienes-comunes-%c2%a1ahora/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=CommonsBlog |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-10-17 |title=Lesestoff |url=https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/literatur/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=CommonsBlog |language=de-DE}}</ref>
Helfrich participated in and co-founded multiple commons-related initiatives. She created her Commons Blog in 2007,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-01 |title=CommonsBlog |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101130628/https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> writing regularly since then on the topic. From there, she argued in favor of commons as a process, "commoning" as a new narrative,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Helfrich |first=Silke |date=2009-10-01 |title=The Commons as a new narrative for the 21 century |url=https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/the-commons-as-a-new-narrative-for-the-21-century/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=CommonsBlog |language=de-DE}}</ref> and supported commons-oriented initiatives worldwide and in multiple languages.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Helfrich |first=Silke |date=2009-12-23 |title=Fortalecer los bienes comunes. ¡Ahora! |url=https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/fortalecer-los-bienes-comunes-%c2%a1ahora/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=CommonsBlog |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-10-17 |title=Lesestoff |url=https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/literatur/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=CommonsBlog |language=de-DE}}</ref>


She co-founded the Commons Strategies Group along with David Bollier and [[Michel Bauwens]], although the latter left it in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://commonsstrategies.org/who-we-are/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Commons Strategies Group |language=en-US}}</ref> As part of this group, she coauthored reports for the [[Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Walsh |first=Zack |url=https://commonsstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ontology_as_a_Hidden_Driver_of_Politics.pdf |title=Ontology as a Hidden Driver of Politics and Policy: Commoning and Relational Approaches to Governance |last2=Commons Strategy Group |date=2020 |publisher=[[Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies]] |year=2020 |language=English}}</ref> and especially reports estemming from international commons conferneces.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Commons Strategy Group |url=https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/ecc_report_final.pdf |title=Economics and the Common(s): From Seed Form to Core Paradigm |date=2013 |publisher=[[Heinrich Böll Foundation]] |year=2013 |location=Berlin, Germany |publication-date=2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Commons Strategy Group |url=https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/democratic_money_capital_for_the_commons_report_january2016.pdf |title=Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons: Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives |date=2015 |publisher=[[Heinrich Böll Foundation]] |year=2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Commons Strategy Group |url=https://commonsstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/State-Power-and-Commoning.pdf |title=State Power and Commoning: Trascending a Problematic Relationship |publisher=[[Heinrich Böll Foundation]] |year=2016}}</ref>
She co-founded the Commons Strategies Group along with David Bollier and [[Michel Bauwens]].


Since 2012 until 2021, Helfrich co-organized annual commons summer schools<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=angela |date=2022-09-01 |title=Die Commons-Sommerschule - Kategorie: Bildung |url=https://waswirtunkoennen.jetzt/2022/09/01/die-commons-sommerschule/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Was wir tun können |language=de-DE}}</ref> for people to "co-creatively experience commoning and internalize it", and they have continued since her passing.<ref name=":0" />
Since 2012 until 2021, Helfrich co-organized annual commons summer schools<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=angela |date=2022-09-01 |title=Die Commons-Sommerschule - Kategorie: Bildung |url=https://waswirtunkoennen.jetzt/2022/09/01/die-commons-sommerschule/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Was wir tun können |language=de-DE}}</ref> for people to "co-creatively experience commoning and internalize it", and they have continued since her passing.<ref name=":0" />

Revision as of 10:20, 12 April 2024

Silke Helfrich
Born
Jena, Germany
DiedNovember, 2021
Alps
Cause of deathAccident
NationalityGerman
EducationLeipzig University
Occupation(s)Writer, activist, scholar
OrganizationHeinrich Boll Foundation
Known forCommons
Websitecommons.blog

Silke Helfrich was a German author, activist and scholar, best known for her contributions to the commons as a socio-political paradigm,[1] along with her frequent coauthor David Bollier. She was regional director for Latin America of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Education and career

She studied romance languages and pedagogy at the Leipzig University finishing in 1989.[2] After some time in development politics, she joined the Heinrich Böll Foundation, first as its head for Thuringia until 1999, and later as regional director for Latin America until 2007. During this time, she focused on globalization, gender and human rights topics.[2][3]

Since 2007 she worked as an independent author, activist and scholar, with a diversity of international partners. In this time, she authored multiple books on the commons, both in English[4] and German.[5] Her last book[6] was translated to German,[7] Spanish[8] and French.[9] Her books have received praise .................................................. (reviews)

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Activism and social engagement

Helfrich participated in and co-founded multiple commons-related initiatives. She created her Commons Blog in 2007,[10] writing regularly since then on the topic. From there, she argued in favor of commons as a process, "commoning" as a new narrative,[11] and supported commons-oriented initiatives worldwide and in multiple languages.[12][13]

She co-founded the Commons Strategies Group along with David Bollier and Michel Bauwens, although the latter left it in 2018.[14] As part of this group, she coauthored reports for the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies,[15] and especially reports estemming from international commons conferneces.[16][17][18]

Since 2012 until 2021, Helfrich co-organized annual commons summer schools[19] for people to "co-creatively experience commoning and internalize it", and they have continued since her passing.[19]

She was the most prominent voice for the commons in Germany, and there she co-founded the Commons Institute,[20] and her model language inspired the creation of the Fuchsmühlen network in Werra-Meißner.[21]

Selected works

  • Bollier, David; Helfrich, Silke (2019). Free, fair, and alive: the insurgent power of the Commons. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-921-7.
  • Bollier, David; Helfrich, Silke; Commons Strategies Group, eds. (2015). Patterns of commoning. Amherst/Mass: CSG - Commons Strategies Group. ISBN 978-1-937146-83-2.
  • Bollier, David; Helfrich, Silke; Commons Strategies Group, eds. (2012). The wealth of the commons: a world beyond market and state. Amherst, Mass: Levellers Press. ISBN 978-1-937146-14-6.
  • Ostrom, Elinor; Helfrich, Silke (2012). Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen: vom gesellschaftlichen Wert der Gemeingüter [What becomes more when we share. On the social value of the commons] (in German) (2. Auflage ed.). München: oekom verlag. ISBN 978-3-86581-251-3.
  • Ostrom, Elinor (2009). Helfrich, Silke (ed.). Wem gehört die Welt? zur Wiederentdeckung der Gemeingüter [Who Owns the World? The Rediscovery of the Commons] (in German). Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (2. Auflage ed.). München: Oekom-Verl., Ges. für Ökologische Kommunikation. ISBN 978-3-86581-133-2.

See also

References

  1. ^ www.oekom.de, oekom-Gesellschaft für ökologische Kommunikation mit beschränkter Haftung-. "Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen | oekom verlag". www.oekom.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  2. ^ a b "Who We Are". Commons Strategies Group. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  3. ^ Helfrich, Silke (2001). Terremoto social en El Salvador [Social earthquake in El Salvador] (in Spanish). El Salvador: Heinrich Böll Foundation.
  4. ^ Bollier, David; Helfrich, Silke; Commons Strategies Group, eds. (2015). Patterns of commoning. Amherst/Mass: CSG - Commons Strategies Group. ISBN 978-1-937146-83-2.
  5. ^ Ostrom, Elinor (2009). Helfrich, Silke (ed.). Wem gehört die Welt? zur Wiederentdeckung der Gemeingüter. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (2. Auflage ed.). München: Oekom-Verl., Ges. für Ökologische Kommunikation. ISBN 978-3-86581-133-2.
  6. ^ Bollier, David; Helfrich, Silke (2019). Free, fair, and alive: the insurgent power of the commons. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-921-7. OCLC 1083715529.
  7. ^ Helfrich, Silke; Bollier, David (2019). Frei, fair und lebendig - die Macht der Commons. Sozialtheorie. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-4530-9.
  8. ^ Bollier, David; Helfrich, Silke (2020). Libres, dignos, vivos: el poder subversivo de los comunes (Primera edición ed.). Barcelona: Icaria editorial. ISBN 978-84-9888-980-2.
  9. ^ Bollier, David; Heinrich, Silke; Petitjean, Olivier (2022). Le pouvoir subversif des communs. DD. Paris: Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer. ISBN 978-2-84377-231-3.
  10. ^ "CommonsBlog". web.archive.org. 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  11. ^ Helfrich, Silke (2009-10-01). "The Commons as a new narrative for the 21 century". CommonsBlog (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  12. ^ Helfrich, Silke (2009-12-23). "Fortalecer los bienes comunes. ¡Ahora!". CommonsBlog (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  13. ^ "Lesestoff". CommonsBlog (in German). 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  14. ^ "Who We Are". Commons Strategies Group. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  15. ^ Walsh, Zack; Commons Strategy Group (2020). Ontology as a Hidden Driver of Politics and Policy: Commoning and Relational Approaches to Governance (PDF). Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  16. ^ Commons Strategy Group (2013). Economics and the Common(s): From Seed Form to Core Paradigm (PDF). Berlin, Germany: Heinrich Böll Foundation.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  17. ^ Commons Strategy Group (2015). Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons: Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives (PDF). Heinrich Böll Foundation.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  18. ^ Commons Strategy Group (2016). State Power and Commoning: Trascending a Problematic Relationship (PDF). Heinrich Böll Foundation.
  19. ^ a b angela (2022-09-01). "Die Commons-Sommerschule - Kategorie: Bildung". Was wir tun können (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  20. ^ "Say goodbye and stay connected – Commons-Institut" (in German). 2021-11-16. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  21. ^ "Commoning – Fuchsmühle" (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
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