KD GMAJNA Ljubljana, Slovenia

1. KD GMAJNA Ljubljana, Slovenia MAKNO OUTPUTS (Napoli, July 8-9, 2010)

2. GMAJNA / SOCIAL CENTRE • Gmajna is a legal association of the autonomous and self-managed Social Centre Rog in Ljubljana, Slovenia • SC Rog is an open space for organization and self-organization of various communities in struggle (asylum seekers, students, teachers, precarious and migrant workers, erased etc.) • SC Rog is based on horizontal cooperation, common decision-making and activist, non-professional engagement • SC Rog is a space of social, political, cultural, scientific production and their hybridization

3. Methodology ACTION (MILITANT, COLLABORATIVE) RESEARCH!!! • Identification of discriminated communities (migrant and precarious workers, asylum seekers, people without papers, erased etc.) • Construction of relations with members of these communities • Assemblies of communities members and activists • Analysis of problems, needs and possible solutions and activities of communities

4. Dissemination of the analysis and propositions back to the communities (emancipation, self-confidence) • Broadening and uploading of the analysis and propositions • Continuous repetition of this process • Learning projects: language courses, legal workshops, media projects (radio-show), research and scientific projects, cultural creativity and cultural identity • Common projects and common assemblies to overcome stereotypes, fears, cultural, linguistic, social, political barriers between discriminated communities and the rest of society and among communities

5. Basic principles • Horizontal cooperation • Common decision-making • Continuous communications in all directions • Creativity, social innovations • Reacting fast in socio-political environment that changes all the time • Activist, non-professional engagement

6. MAKNO OUTPUT "When I say 'subjugated knowledges' I mean two things. On the one hand, I am referring to historical contents that have been buried or masked in functional coherences or formal systemizations. [In other words, I am referring to] blocks of historical knowledges that were present in the functional and systematic ensembles, but which were masked, and the critique was able to reveal their existence by using, obviously enough, the tools of scholarship. Second, when I say 'subjugated knowledges' I am also referring to a whole series of knowledges that have been disqualified as...insufficiently elaborated knowledges: naive knowleges, hierarchically inferior knowledges, knowledges that are below the required level of erudition or scientificity" (Foucault).

7. INSTITUTE FOR UNSUBJUGATIVE KNOWLEDGE • Legal person (establishment of a new institution) • New research center • Professional engagement (as opposed to non-professional activism) • Non policy-oriented research • Research for the social change

8. Counter to standard systems of knowledge, revealing how knowledge is built on exclusion and confinement, and how hidden forms of knowledge actually provide the limits of the knowledges which disqualify them. • Knowledge production as a tool of emancipation, self-organisation, self-confidence • Struggle against the coercion of a theoretical, unitary, formal and scientific discourse