Scope - Mutuality. Pluriverse versus fragments

Here we outline the post-modern principle of pluriverse in making a living economy, and complement and deepen this with the principle of mutuality, through which we move beyond the fragments. The 'voice from somewhere' is fundamental. \<This is a stub>

The many cultural formations of the mutual sector are a wonder and a joy in their richness and vision: Paul Hawken called them ‘the largest movement in the world’. But they continue to be fragments. Hawken 2009 Blessed unrest

xxx To be expanded xxx For this writer, the consideration of fragments begins with the feminist socialist intervention, *Beyond the fragments 1979* Rowbotham Segal Wainwright. Committed workers for change, disappear into trenches (not walling themselves in, in silos): a material consequence of committed practice, as distinct from (or in addition to) a consequence of ideological barriers. Movement beyond fragments

xxx To be expanded xxx Pluriverse: Escobar 2015, decolonial, post-development, indigeneity. Many worlds (Zapatistas), radical confederalism (Bookchin, Öcalan), women’s decolonising (Jinealoji). Pluriverse - Beyond a fantasy of universe

> Escobar 2015, 'Commons in the pluriverse’, in Bollier & Helfrich eds (2015), *Patterns of commoning*, Heinrich Bōll Foundation. webpage . A copy is here: pdf

> Escobar 2015, 'Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation', Peer to Peer Foundation, wiki

xxx To be expanded xxx In meet.coop, as co-convenor of `commons.hour`, I needed a pragmatic working frame that would keep in view the plurality of the mutual sector, as members of a commons of digital infrastructure that our coop was attempting to furnish. This took the form of a listing of 'Seven Rs' of commitment, variously made across civil society activist organisations Seven Rs of mutual sector commitment