Arif Yusop
As (inter)beings immersed in colonial modernity, we tend to forget who we truly are as a collective ‘we’. Exploring design vis-à-vis sustainability transition, Arif Yusop reflects on the manufactured global ‘we’ that has captured sustainability discourse and unearths …
Madhuresh Kumar
How can we imagine freedom outside the institutions that taught us what freedom is supposed to look like? Madhuresh Kumar reflects on his participation at a convening in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which brought together grassroots organizers to …
Simon Mitambo
In the Tharaka community of Kenya, the living world has always been understood as a council that includes more than human voices. Simon Mitambo shares how earthy governance in Tharaka has always been larger than the human community; …
Ashish Kothari
From anger and resistance to imagining alternative futures.
Originally published by Meer on 13 June 2026.
The last few years have seen a spate of youth movements – led especially by the generation called Gen Z – …
Alim M Bandara
The Tëduray, Lambangian and Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples of southern Philippines have been struggling to restore their customary self-governance system and strengthen guardianship of their ancestral territories. Alim Bandara writes about the Timuay Justice and Governance (TJG) system …
Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld
Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld trace a worldwide network of communities healing soil and reweaving relationships between people and land.
This brown, dirty stuff beneath our feet is in fact teeming with life and …
Halwest Karim
Originally published by Local Futures on March 31, 2026.
Across Kurdistan, the village has not been just a place of settlement; it has been a living ecological system, a web of deep interconnections among people, land, seeds, animals, …
Ashish Kothari
Originally published by Meer on 13 May 2026.
Grassroots movements from across the Global South gather in Indonesia to confront war, inequality, and ecological collapse through collective alternatives.
Hope. Esperanza. Harapan. These words were frequently invoked by …
Najma Mohamed
This article was originally published by LSE Blogs on 10 March 2026.
In an era defined by the converging threats of climate change and biodiversity loss, staggering inequality, and decaying democratic trust, how do we reweave the bonds …
This article was originally published by The Gaia Foundation.
Two communities in Southeast Zimbabwe’s Bikita district came together to map their ancestral territory and seasonal calendar, in the first stage of a process learnt from the Colombian Amazon. When …
Ecosystem Restoration Communities
Originally published by ERC in March 2025.
The rural community of Matera in southern Italy’s Basilicata region has a deep connection to the land. But over the past decades the community has faced mounting challenges that have …
Robbie Blake
Originally published by ARC2020 on 20 February 2026.
How accessible are conversations around transition? As we at ARC2020 deepen our longstanding work to support agroecology and food sovereignty, with a focus this year on the right to food …