Ashish Kothari talks to Anitra Nelson and Fracois Schneider, the editors of “Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities”, which looks for feasible solutions to the current challenges in housing.
Ashish Kothari: Thanks a lot, Anitra and …
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.…
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 …
Anitra Nelson
Housing and its deficiencies is a key topic, especially in cities around the world. Affordable, conveniently located, well-designed and environmentally sustainable housing seems further and further out of reach. Where and how we live, our home and household, …
Pallav Das: Welcome, everybody, to this conversation with Ashish Kothari on his new book, “Alternative Futures: India Unshackled”, which he has co-edited with K.J. Joy. Welcome to Washington, Ashish! This is such a wonderful opportunity for me and for this …
Marko Ulvila and Kristoffer Wilén
When critical discussions around the concept of the Anthropocene gained popularity and alternative terms such as Capitalocene or Chthulucene emerged, we decided in early 2016 to chip in to the debate with yet another cene…
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 …
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 …
Ashish Kothari interviews Enric Duran about the death grip of finance capital on society and how the recent initiatives like Faircoop and Faircoin are succeeding in breaking that stranglehold.
Ashish – Enric, what prompted you to take the decision you …
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 …