KD GMAJNA Ljubljana, Slovenia

MAKNO OUTPUTS

(Napoli, July 8-9, 2010)

GMAJNA / SOCIAL CENTRE

Gmajna is a legal association of the autonomous and self-managed Social Centre Rog in Ljubljana, Slovenia

SC Rog is an open space for organization and self-organization of various communities in struggle (asylum seekers, students, teachers, precarious and migrant workers, erased etc.)

SC Rog is based on horizontal cooperation, common decision-making and activist, non-professional engagement

SC Rog is a space of social, political, cultural, scientific production and their hybridization

Methodology

ACTION (MILITANT, COLLABORATIVE) RESEARCH!!!

Identification of discriminated communities (migrant and precarious workers, asylum seekers, people without papers, erased etc.)

Construction of relations with members of these communities

Assemblies of communities members and activists

Analysis of problems, needs and possible solutions and activities of communities

Dissemination of the analysis and propositions back to the communities (emancipation, self-confidence)

Broadening and uploading of the analysis and propositions

Continuous repetition of this process

Learning projects: language courses, legal workshops, media projects (radio-show), research and scientific projects, cultural creativity and cultural identity

Common projects and common assemblies to overcome stereotypes, fears, cultural, linguistic, social, political barriers between discriminated communities and the rest of society and among communities

Basic principles

Horizontal cooperation

Common decision-making

Continuous communications in all directions

Creativity, social innovations

Reacting fast in socio-political environment that changes all the time

Activist, non-professional engagement

MAKNO OUTPUT

"When I say 'subjugated knowledges' I mean two things. On the one hand, I am referring to historical contents that have been buried or masked in functional coherences or formal

systemizations. [In other words, I am referring to] blocks of historical knowledges that were present in the functional and

systematic ensembles, but which were masked, and the critique was able to reveal their existence by using,

obviously enough, the tools of scholarship. Second, when I say 'subjugated knowledges' I am also referring to a whole

series of knowledges that have been disqualified as...insufficiently elaborated knowledges: naive knowleges,

hierarchically inferior knowledges, knowledges that are below the required level of erudition or scientificity"

(Foucault).

INSTITUTE FOR UNSUBJUGATIVE KNOWLEDGE

Legal person (establishment of a new institution)

New research center

Professional engagement (as opposed to non-professional activism)

Non policy-oriented research

Research for the social change

Counter to standard systems of knowledge, revealing how knowledge is built on exclusion and confinement, and how hidden forms of knowledge actually provide the limits of the knowledges which disqualify them.

Knowledge production as a tool of emancipation, self-organisation, self-confidence

Struggle against the coercion of a theoretical, unitary, formal and scientific discourse