This week on the Voices of the Commons, Stacco Troncoso talks to Nathan Schneider. Nathan Schneider is journalist and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is the director of Media Enterprise Design Lab. Nathan has authored books on cooperative enterprises, the Occupy movement, and religion. He is one of the initiators of the Platform Cooperativism movement, co-editing Ours to Hack and to Own (a Platform Coop “mix-tape”) and maintaining the Internet of Ownership Directory.

In this podcast, Nathan talks about:

How coops address accountability crisis of the mainstream economy

The relationship between cooperatives and the commons

The vulnerabilities of the Commons when it marginalizes ownership

How coops radicalize workers across the political spectrum

The breadth and width of the cooperative economy

Latest trends in digital and crypto-cooperativism

The podcast was recorded on the same day Nathan Schneider taped an interview with Stacco for Boulder University’s Media Enterprise Lab. Both dialogues complement each other well as sides A and B of a record on cooperativism and the commons. You can check out Nathan’s interview with Stacco in this link: If I Only Had a Heart: Accounting for Care Work in Organizations.