{"id":2504,"date":"2022-02-01T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:03:15","slug":"dario-novellino-laureat-2013-du-prix-paul-k-feyerabend-recoit-le-prix-elinor-ostrom-2021-pour-les-praticiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/2022\/02\/01\/dario-novellino-laureat-2013-du-prix-paul-k-feyerabend-recoit-le-prix-elinor-ostrom-2021-pour-les-praticiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dario Novellino, 2013 laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Award, is honored with the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Award for Practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a great pleasure to announce the 2013 laureate of the\u00a0 Paul K. Feyerabend Award\u2013 Dr. Dario Novellino \u2013 has just been honored \u00a0with the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Award in the Practitioner category.\u00a0 The ceremony has been diffused online and is available in the Ostrom Award website<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is a short summary\/ excerpt from Dario\u2019s acceptance speech:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 in 1986, I reached Southeast Asia and began living with the Batak indigenous peoples in Palawan, an island considered the \u2018last ecological frontier\u2019 of the Philippines. [\u2026] In 1987, a logging company penetrated the area causing much destruction and fear [\u2026.] I helped the community to file a petition against the logging company, which was submitted to Corazon Aquino\u2014 the first democratic president of the Philippines elected after the 21-year Marcos dictatorship. A month later, the company license was revoked, that forest was saved, and it is still in good conditions today! Helping the Batak had put my life at risk, but I continued to support them and other communities through legal and paralegal means, as well as through international campaigns. Thousands of hectares of ancestral domain have been secured since then. [\u2026] In 1992, I was stopped at the Manila Airport, my passport was confiscated, and I was told by a lawyer friend that the only way for me to return to the Philippines was to affiliate with an academic institution as a researcher. This would have protected me from false accusations such as that of being a member of the communist guerrilla.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] I took that course: went back to Europe, and applied to study environmental anthropology at the University of Kent, where I completed my PhD in 2003 [\u2026 ] This is to say that my encounter with academia took place years after my engagement as an activist and advocate for indigenous peoples [\u2026] I have never visited an indigenous community with the idea of doing research \u2018on them\u2019\u2026 [on the contrary] it was my very special encounter with the Batak of Palawan that encouraged me to acquire an academic qualification. \u00a0To them, and to my friends and colleagues of the Coalition against Land Grabbing, goes my highest gratitude\u2026<\/p>\n

Let me share some of my lessons learned [\u2026] Elinor Ostrom believed that collaboration for the commons is possible among individuals of different rationalities and within a large variety of contexts. Indeed, this is the case. But, in my experience, the collaboration needs [\u2026] a shared \u2018knowledge base\u2019, which is built only through strong dedication and a lifetime commitment. [\u2026] This is why I spent almost three decades in the Philippines. [\u2026] Also, advocates of the commons should be always mindful of the complex web of relations in which they work\u2014 within the community, with other organizations, with state and non-state agents like corporations.\u00a0 [\u2026] Those relationships can render vane any effort and jeopardize any \u2018rules-in-use\u2019 (using Ostrom\u2019s words). [\u2026] And, when working for the commons, we should remember that circumstances may change very fast.\u00a0 After years of struggles for the protection of an indigenous territory, when the area is legally recognized and demarcated [\u2026] the political scenario changes, votes are bought for half a bag of rice, a new President comes along, new governors take the lead, the law is amended and modified and that territory\u2014 the one for which so many have been fighting for\u2014 is suddenly open again to industrial exploitation.<\/p>\n

This happens all the time in Palawan where some so-called \u2018core zones\u2019 and \u2018restricted zones\u2019 are reclassified as \u2018multiple use\u2019 areas by the very agency in charge of sustainable development. So, let us not measure our results only in the short or medium term, let us not get discouraged [\u2026] sometimes victory builds up very slowly [\u2026] but let us remember that words have consequences, but also silence. By not acting<\/em> and not speaking up <\/em>we also become complicit with the system [\u2026] I encourage all to stand up for the commons, to always defend beauty and innocence, to maintain faith in life \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Our strong congratulations to Dario\u2014 who has refused to be complicit with the system many times in his life!\u00a0 In recent years Dario has kept working at a distance with the Batak and other Philippines organizations.\u00a0 He lives in the countryside in Italy and supports\u2014 as a volunteer researcher\u2014 the pastoralists of Aurunci and Ciociaria. Check this audio-visual platform and FB page for a glimpse of his work:<\/p>\n

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