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Conversations, Ideas, Stories

RED Conversations Series

Ashish Kothari interviews Ruth Mwangi about the path-breaking idea of “Community Currencies” and how it is being implemented in Kenya.

Ashish Kothari: Ruth, could you give us a short introduction to the work you are doing in Kenya?

Ruth

Conversations, Ideas, Stories

RED Conversations Series

Ashish Kothari talks to Joel Morist I Botines about cooperatives, commons and the need to shrink the ecological footprint of the contemporary society.

Ashish – Joel, can you tell us about the work being done by Cooperativa Integral Catalana?

Joel

Agenda, Ideas, Stories

Refashioning A Common Spirit In Europe

Pierre Calame

The European Union has shown growing signs of frailty in the last couple of years. Opinion polls all over the continent reveal an increasing dissatisfaction with European policies and a lack of confidence in both national and European …

Analysis, Ideas

Radical Ecological Economics

By David Barkin

Ecological Economics (EE) is an evolving heterodox field of study which has brought together knowledge from various social and natural sciences to question the two fundamental dogmas of neoclassical Economics: methodological individualism and the supremacy of the …

Ideas, News

The Movements of Movements…

Towards doing something together about where we are today, and some thoughts about rethinking our dance

 By Jai Sen

Our world, today, is not only a world in profound crisis but also a world in profound movement, with major and …

Agenda, Analysis, Ideas

Questioning Development, Transforming Modernity

By Arturo Escobar

As the world confronts an increasingly uncertain ecological future and the accompanying oppressive economic inequality, this is a good moment to take stock of what has happened with the radical critiques of development of the 1990s, and …

Ideas

‘Nature’s Grandchildren’

By Aseem Shrivastava

 

Can we be human in the absence of nature, asked Rabindranath Tagore?

 

To Civilization

 Give back the wilderness, take away the city

Embrace if you will your steel, brick and stonewalls

O newfangled civilization! Cruel …

Conversations, Ideas

Ecofeminism and Radical Ecological Democracy

A conversation between Ariel Salleh and Ashish Kothari

 AK: How does feminism come together with ecological thinking to question ‘development fundamentalism’ in the global South?

 AS: In North and South, ecofeminist politics is based on women’s daily efforts to …

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