Metagov Seminar - Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives

This seminar explores the extraordinary new book "Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives - A Global Perspective." The book is full of chapters arguing for a view of historical politics beyond the dominant paradigm that sees the state as the ultimate destination of social development. It draws examples from around the world, including indigenous and diasporic societies outside the Global North. These stories can help us reconsider our assumptions about the design of online governance.

​The seminar is a conversation among attendees, starting with provocations from three of the book's contributors: Justin Jennings (University of Toronto), Barbara Mills (University of Arizona), & Gary Feinman (Field Museum).

​The seminar is hosted by Nathan Schneider and Federica Carugati, two Metagov research directors working on the Governance Ecologies (ecologies.info) project. It is co-sponsored by Nathan's Media Economies Design Lab at CU Boulder.

More about Metagov Seminar:

​​​​​​​The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

​​​​​​​The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.

​​​​​​​The seminar is planned through the #metagov-seminar channel on the Metagov Slack. Participate by joining our community.

​​​​​​​Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4)

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