By Mazin Qumsiyeh
History tells us that every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had colonized other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue …
Christine Dann
“le seul réalisme c’est de vivre heureux ici et maintenant sans attendre des lendemains qui chantent ou déchantent même si vous ne votez pas” (“the only realistic thing to do is to live happily in the here and …
Jen Gobby
We know how much is riding on this moment in history. We know that social and ecological systems hang in precarious balance, teetering on the edge of ecological collapse and climate catastrophe, while an emboldening far right threatens …
Clem McCartney
A butterfly flaps its wings in the African jungle, and a few weeks later a hurricane results in North America. That was the image that chaos theory used in order to show that small changes can have big …
Pablo Domínguez, Maja Kostić-Mandić and Milan Sekulović
There is a crisis brewing in the Sinjajevina-Durmitor massif mountain range in Montenegro where a substantial part of this traditional pastoral territory is being converted into a military training ground. The mountain range …
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
According to our calendar, the Karen People have lived in our forest home for 2,758 years. Our lands and waters play many important roles in everyday life and in our future prosperity. They …
Mariana Gomez Soto and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello
The history of large-scale mining in Colombia is inseparable from the violence of European colonialism in the Americas. Prior to the Spanish invasion nearly five centuries ago, gold was extracted on a relatively …
David Barkin and Alejandra Sánchez
Introduction
The dominant contemporary model of the world economic system is promoted as the ideal of development and growth to improve wellbeing and quality of life to society. It suggests that equality, justice and freedom …
Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams
‘A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell about themselves’ wrote Nigerian poet Ben Okri. ‘Sick storytellers can make nations sick’.
Our age seems to be an era of sick stories.…
Gurudas Nulkar
“In the long-run, we are all dead”, said John Maynard Keynes. Thanks to our obsession with economic growth, the long-run may not be as far as Keynes imagined. Since its inception, the Nobel prize for economics has been …
Ashish Kothari: Could you both introduce yourselves to our readers?
Elandria Williams: I am Elandria Williams and I have a background in Community Organizing. I come from Powell, Tennessee in the United States.
Mabrouka Mbarek: I am Mabrouka …
This conversation is based on Paul Robbins’ reading of Ashish Kothari’s article “Radical Well-Being: Alternatives to Development” (forthcoming in Research Handbook of Law, Environment and Poverty, Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan (eds), Edward Elgar), and in response to the latter’s …