Dario Azzellini

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Dario Azzellini, 2011

Dario Azzellini (* 1967 in Wiesbaden ) is an Italian political scientist , sociologist , author , documentary filmmaker and artist .

Life

Dario Azzellini studied political science, Romance studies and English studies at the University of Mainz from 1986 to 1988 , where he completed his undergraduate studies. He then moved to West Berlin, where he graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a degree in political science in 1993. During that time, he and others founded the radical left-wing initiative For a Left Current . Since 1989 he has been commuting between Latin America and Berlin and publishes regularly in specialist publications. He also completed various guest stays at US universities. His studies focus on processes of social transformation, social movements, democratic planning, participatory democracy, upheavals in the world of work and workers' self-management.

He has published numerous books, book chapters and academic articles on the political developments in and the history of Venezuela , Mexico , Colombia and Italy , as well as on worker control and self-government , social movements, labor disputes, the privatization of military services and migration, which have been translated into several languages . His essays have appeared in Critical Sociology , Latin American Perspectives , Socialism and Democracy , Blätter für deutsche und Internationale Politik , and PROKLA , among others . He is co-editor of the Journal of Labor and Society (New York) and the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. 1500 to the Present and is on the editorial board of Cuadernos de Marte (Buenos Aires), Autogestión. Para Otra Economía (Buenos Aires), Cuadernos de Marte (Buenos Aires), Kavilando (Medellín) and Movimentos Sociais (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil).

Since 1993 he has published documentaries on Nicaragua, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. Since 2014 he has been working with Oliver Ressler on the project Occupy, Resist, Produce , as part of which a series of films about factory occupations and production under worker control in Europe in the current crisis are being shot. 4 films were made by 2018.

Azzellini also worked as a translator from Italian and Spanish. He has translated, among others, Nanni Balestrini , Marco Revelli , Rossana Rossanda , Mario Moretti , Renato Curcio and Patricio Nolasco . Since 2004, Azzellini's films and other works have been presented internationally in art exhibitions. He worked with the artists Oliver Ressler and Lize Mogel , among others .

In 2010, Azzellini received his doctorate in political science with a study on participatory and protagonistic democracy in Venezuela with Joachim Hirsch at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2012 he received his PhD in sociology with John Holloway and Carlos Figueroa Ibarra at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico).

From 2010 to 2017 Azzellini worked in the Department of Political and Development Research at the Institute for Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz , Austria. After visiting fellowships at the Murphy Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University , Azzellini has been working at Cornell University in the Department of Developmental Sociology since summer 2018.

Dario Azzellini is a founding member and editor of the workerscontrol.net internet archive , founded in 2011 , which collects scientific and journalistic texts on the topics of collective self-management and workers' self-management .

Books

  • 1999: Colombia - Big Business, State Terror and Insurrection , with Raul Zelik , Neuer ISP Verlag, ISBN 3-929008-48-3 , 256 pages, free download: PDF
  • 1999: To the North - Mexican migrant workers between neoliberal restructuring, militarization of the US border and the American dream , with Boris Kanzleiter, Schwarze Risse, ISBN 3-924737-47-9 , 272 pp.
  • 2002: Italy - Legalization of Refugees - Militarization of Borders? , with Judith Gleitze, Association A, ISBN 3-935936-09-5 , 252 pp.
  • 2002: Italy. Genoa. History, Perspektiven , Association A, ISBN 3-935936-06-0 , 184 pp.
  • 2003: The War Company , with Boris Kanzleiter, Association A, ISBN 3-935936-17-6 , 216 pages, free download: PDF
  • 2005: El negocio de la guerra , Txalaparta (Euzkadi / Spanish State), ISBN 84-8136-314-6 , 296 pages, updated and expanded with new chapters.
  • 2006: Futbolistas - Football and Latin America: Hopes, Heroes, Politics and Commerce (2006), with Stefan Thimmel, Association A, ISBN 3-935936-46-X , 256 pp.
  • 2007: Venezuela bolivariana. 21st century revolution? , reviewed, revised, expanded and updated new edition, Neuer ISP Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89900-120-4 , 328 pp.
  • 2009: International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. 1500 to the Present , Volumes 1 - 8, Immanuel Ness (Ed.), Associate Editor for Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and New Left in Italy, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-4051-8464-9 .
  • 2010: Participatory and protagonistic democracy in Venezuela , Frankfurt am Main 2010, OCLC 642988674 (Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main 2010, 575 pages).
  • 2010: Participation, Workers' Control and the Commune. Movements and social transformation using the example of Venezuela , ISBN 978-3-89965-422-6 , VSA, 416 pp.
  • 2011: Ours to master and to own. Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present (Ed.), With Immanuel Ness, ISBN 978-1-60846-119-6 , Haymarket, 400 pp.
  • 2012: Occupying Language , with Marina Sitrin, ISBN 978-1-884519-09-3 , Zuccotti Park Press / Adelante Alliance, 117 pp.
  • 2013: Caracas, socializing city. The »Bolivarian« metropolis between self-organization and control (ed.), With Stephan Lanz and Kathrin Wildner, ISBN 978-3-942214-13-1 , b_books, 390 pp.
  • 2014: They Can't Represent Us. Reinventing Democracy From Greece to Occupy , with Marina Sitrin, ISBN 978-1-78168-097-1 , Verso books, 252 pp.
  • 2015: La construcción de los dos lados: poder constituido y poder constituyente en Venezuela [2 Vol.], ISBN 978-980-14-1927-3 , El Perro y la Rana.
  • 2015: An Alternative Labor History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy (Ed.), ISBN 978-1-78360-155-4 , Zed Books.
  • 2017: Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela. Building 21st Century Socialism from Below , ISBN 978-90-04-30011-8 , Brill.
  • 2018: The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century (Ed.), With Michael G. Kraft, ISBN 978-90-04-29146-1 , Brill.
  • 2018: From protest to social process. Company occupations and work in self-administration , ISBN 978-3-89965-826-2 , VSA, 152 pp.

Documentaries

  • 1992: Quetzalcoatl, Sandino and the World Bank , with Harry Häner and Anne Löwisch
  • 1993: Autonomy , with Harry Häner and Anne Löwisch
  • 1998: al norte , with Harry Häner and Boris Kanzleiter
  • 2002: Disobbedienti , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2004: Venezuela from below , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2006: 5 factories - workers' control in Venezuela , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2010: Comuna under construction , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2014: Occupy, Resist, Produce - RiMaflow , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2015: Occupy, Resist, Produce - Officine Zero , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2015: Occupy, Resist, Produce - Vio.Me. , with Oliver Ressler
  • 2018: Occupy, Resist, Produce - Scop Ti , with Oliver Ressler

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constituent Power
  2. ↑ Labor as a Commons: The Example of Worker-Recuperated Companies, Volume: 44 issue: 4-5, page (s): 763-776
  3. ^ Class Struggle in the Bolivarian Process: Workers 'Control and Workers' Councils, Volume: 44 issue: 1, page (s): 126-139
  4. ^ Dissertation by Dario Azzellini in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.
  5. ^ Department for Politics and Development Research, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Kepler University Linz
  6. ^ Community and worker ownership project, Murphy Institute, City University of New York
  7. ^ School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University, Ithaca
  8. ^ Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca
personal data
SURNAME Azzellini, Dario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian political scientist, sociologist, writer, documentary filmmaker and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden