New Forms of Collaborative Collective Action. What Does Sharing Society Mean?

In recent decades we have witnessed a progressive weakening of the moderating role that the welfare state was performing on inequalities and social imbalances in the context of technologically advanced societies, which is assuming the gradual abandonment of mutuality, of social bonds that used to guarantee mutual support and interaction structures capable of making precarious life bearable. How important is to seek collective responses, and what effects and meanings share practices and collaborative actions have for participants and society?

The aim of the communication is to present one theoretical reflection on collective action and different examples of forms and experiences of collective actions which have a strong collaborative component and try to respond to collective challenges.

This proposal moves away from the concept of collaborative economy and seeks experiences that are developed in the field of mutual aid, solidarity, the defense of citizenship rights, not only to do-it-yourself but rather to do-it-with others, actions that reject competitiveness and are grounded in the concept of collective apropiation.