From P2P Foundation

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"Felix Stein is currently doing a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on how perceptions of nature and personhood are linked to property regimes around large scale natural resource extraction in the Bolivian Andes. Essentially, Silke is to blame for his interest in the Commons, since she brought up the topic during his internship year at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico City. Their research in Mexico and the subsequent 2006 conference on "Citizenship and Commons" motivated him to do an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. He wrote his thesis on "Extractive Industry and Indigenous Rights - An analysis of the Camisea Natural Gas Extraction Project in Peru", whereby he (very) slowly came to understand that different ontologies regarding nature and the person tend to shape conflicts around property regimes. For about a year, he has been trying to investigate these issues further, as a student of social anthropology and he has just written a short piece on "Ownership claims among Bolivian Tin Miners". Felix hopes that the conference will help to analytically unpack the bundles of rights and obligations that notions of private and common property entail. More specifically, he is interested in how the idea of "commons" compares to other conceptual categories such as "natural resources", "landscape", "commodity" and "nature"."

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