By John Foran
A proposal that our movements confront the issue of Political Power, finding new ways to take and use it.
Where Have We Been?
Unlike other ecosocialists, I have long argued that the path to radical social transformation …
By Neema Pathak Broome and Ashish Kothari
A decade ago, Ecuador became the first country in the world to formally include rights of nature into its constitution. Soon after, along with Bolivia, it also declared itself to be “plurinational”, an …
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 …
Neema Pathak-Broome and Yagyashree Kumar
The Yawal Wildlife Sanctuary, in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state in central India, was on the brink of an ecological and social collapse around the turn of the century. Extensive timber smuggling and encroachment of …
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 …
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 …
Ashish Kothari and Pallav Das
One doesn’t need exceptional socio-political acumen to recognize that the contemporary world is in a state of toxic ferment. The dystopian future of environmental and economic collapse that we’ve seen advancing menacingly for long seems …
By Gustavo Esteva
It is possible to say that underdevelopment afflicted me when I was 13 years old. On January 20, 1949 I became underdeveloped along with two billion other people of the non-western world, the former colonies, when president …
A dialogue between Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta and Federico Demaria, moderated by Ashish Kothari
Ashish – How would we describe the world we live in and what are its dominant trends?
Ariel – In …
The contemporary international political economy is marked by a great contradiction. On a planet characterized by finite resources, the economy is predicated upon an absurd and irrational logic of infinite expansion and accumulation. With its fossil fuel …
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 …
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 …