Notas para el debate: La desglobalización

Descargar en Formato PDF English version Una integración mundial para los pueblos y la naturaleza ¿Qué es la desglobalización? Para responder a esa pregunta, veamos primero a qué nos referimos con “globalización”. En su artículo “Definiciones de la Globalización: Una visión general y una propuesta de definición”1. el Dr. Nayef Al-RF Rodhan recopila un centenar de definiciones de globalización. La mayoría de ellas tienden a … Continue reading Notas para el debate: La desglobalización

Admin EnJanuary 30, 2015January 26, 20171 Comment

Español, Mother Earth Rights, Publications

Notas para el debate: Los derechos de la Madre Tierra

[English version] “La naturaleza es un sujeto y no una colección de objetos.” –Thomas Berry ¿Que son los derechos de la Madre Tierra? ¿Una nueva visión de relación con la naturaleza, un nuevo marco legal, un conjunto de principios éticos, una estrategia para cuestionar los super poderes de las empresas transnacionales? Los Derechos de la Madre Tierra tienen que ver con todos estos aspectos y … Continue reading Notas para el debate: Los derechos de la Madre Tierra

Admin EnJanuary 30, 2015January 26, 20171 Comment

Commons, English, Various

The Commons as a Transformative Vision

[David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, in The Wealth of the Commons] It has become increasingly clear that we are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by an archaic order of centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, presided over by a state committed to planet-destroying economic growth, people … Continue reading The Commons as a Transformative Vision

Admin EnJanuary 30, 2015January 30, 20151 Comment

English, Mother Earth Rights, Vishwas Satgar

The climate is ripe for social change

[Vishwas Satgar] In a surprising departure from the corporate-controlled narrative on climate change, on November 30 2015, during the build-up to the recent United Nations COP20 climate summit in Lima, the New York Times ran a front-page story in which climate experts warned that “it now may be impossible to prevent the temperature of the planet’s atmosphere from rising by 3.6 degrees F”. “According to a … Continue reading The climate is ripe for social change

Admin EnJanuary 13, 2015January 13, 2015

Degrowth, Français, Genevieve Azam, Publications

Qu’est-ce que la décroissance ?

English version Geneviève Azam Le débat sur la croissance a été publiquement amorcé à la fin des années 1960 et au début des années 1970. De manière non exhaustive, citons le rapport Meadows pour le Club de Rome en 1972[1], la Conférence des Nations Unies à Stockholm en 1972, la position de Sicco Manscholt[2] en 1972 (alors vice-président de la commission européenne). Quoi que nous … Continue reading Qu’est-ce que la décroissance ?

Admin EnJanuary 12, 2015January 26, 2017

Commons, English, Various

Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons

[David Bollier & Burns H. Weston, wealthofthecommons.org] At least since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, we have known about humankind’s squandering of nonrenewable resources, its careless disregard of precious life species and its overall contamination and degradation of delicate ecosystems. In recent decades, these defilements have assumed a systemic dimension. Lately we have come to realize the shocking extent to which our atmospheric emission of carbon dioxide … Continue reading Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons

Admin EnDecember 2, 2014

Degrowth, English, Genevieve Azam, Publications

What is Degrowth?

version française Geneviève Azam The public debate on growth was initiated in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One can mention, among others, the Meadows report for the Club of Rome in 1972[1], the United Nations Conference in Stockholm in 1972 and the stance taken by Sicco Manscholt (then vice-president of the European Commission) in the same year[2] and the publication in 1971 of Georgescu … Continue reading What is Degrowth?

Admin EnNovember 26, 2014January 13, 2015

Alternatives, English, Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy: Ten Principles of Justice, Sustainability and Peace

[Vandana Shiva] 1. Ecological Democracy – Democracy of all life We are all members of the Earth community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. No humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people, or treat them with cruelty and violence. 2. Intrinsic worth of all Species … Continue reading Earth Democracy: Ten Principles of Justice, Sustainability and Peace

Admin EnNovember 25, 2014January 26, 2017

English, Others, Various

Other Economies Are Possible: Building a Solidarity Economy

[Ethan Miller, 2009] Consider this: thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects are in the process of creating the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism. It might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker, consumer, and housing cooperatives, community currencies, urban gardens, fair trade organizations, intentional communities, and neighborhood self-help associations could hold a candle to the pervasive and … Continue reading Other Economies Are Possible: Building a Solidarity Economy

Admin EnNovember 13, 2014November 25, 2014

English, Food Sovereignty, Various

Towards an Agrarian Revolution!

Synthesis of Discussions at the International Meeting: “Agrarian Reform and the Defense of Land and Territory in the 21st Century: The Challenge and Future,” held in Bukit Tinggi, West Sumatera, Indonesia, July 10th- 13th, 2012 Prepared by Shalmali Guttal with inputs from Sofia Monsalve, Rebeca Leonard and all participants at the International Meeting. An adapted version was published in the Journal of Peasant Studies 40:4 (2013), … Continue reading Towards an Agrarian Revolution!

Admin EnNovember 7, 2014November 7, 2014

Commons, Economy..., English, Others

Development from the Bottom Up

[Sulak Sivaraksa, from The Wisdom of Sustainability, 2009] There is an old Thai saying, “In the fields there is rice; in the water there are fish.” Before colonialism, the fertile lands of Southeast Asia – known as the Rice Bowl of Asia – provided food for all its people. Plants grew everywhere, wildlife was plentiful, jungles produced teak and other hardwoods, and the human population … Continue reading Development from the Bottom Up

Admin EnOctober 15, 2014October 15, 2014

English, Feminism

Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism

[Greta Gaard] ©2011 Feminist Formations, Vol. 23 No. 2 (Summer) pp. 26–53. Formulated in the 1980s and gaining prominence in the early 1990s, by the end of that decade ecofeminism was critiqued as essentialist and effectively discarded. Fearing their scholarship would be contaminated by association with the term “eco-feminism,” feminists working on the intersections of feminism and environmentalism thought it better to rename their approach. … Continue reading Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism

Admin EnOctober 6, 2014October 6, 2014

English, Mother Earth Rights

Notes for the debate: The Rights of Mother Earth

Versión en español Download this text in PDF format “Nature is a subject and not a collection of objects.” -Thomas Berry What are the rights of Mother Earth? A new vision of our relationship with nature, a new legal framework, a set of ethical principles, a strategy with which to question the superpowers of transnational corporations? The Rights of Mother Earth refers to all of … Continue reading Notes for the debate: The Rights of Mother Earth

Admin EnAugust 20, 2014January 26, 20171 Comment

Events

European Summer University for Social Movements

A workshop on Systemic Alternatives will take place on Thursday, August 21, 2014, as part of ATTAC’s European Summer University for Social Movements. The session is coordinated by ATTAC France, Focus on the Global South, and the Transnational Institute. Starting from a reflection on existing discussions around systemic alternatives (such as the commons, buen vivir, feminist ecology and degrowth) we will have a debate about … Continue reading European Summer University for Social Movements

Admin EnAugust 15, 2014

Español, Publications, Vivir Bien

Apuntes para el debate: Buen Vivir / Vivir Bien

Recomendamos leer el capítulo Vivir Bien del libro Alternativas Sistémicas https://systemicalternatives.org/2017/03/13/vivir-bien/ English version Caminemos de espaldas hacia el futuro para con los ojos mirando al pasado orientarnos hacia la utopía. ¿Qué es el Vivir Bien o Buen Vivir? ¿Un pensamiento que reivindica principios éticos y saberes, una practica/propuesta de los pueblos indígenas andinos, una filosofía, un paradigma civilizatorio, una “ética cósmica”, una cosmovisión? Después de leer e … Continue reading Apuntes para el debate: Buen Vivir / Vivir Bien

Admin EnJuly 31, 2014March 14, 20172 Comments

English, Publications, Vivir Bien

Notes for the Debate: Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir

We recommend to read the Chapter Vivir Bien in the book Systemic Alternatives https://systemicalternatives.org/2017/03/14/vivir-bien-2/ Versión en español Let’s walk with our backs toward the future and our eyes on the past, so we can find our way to utopia. What is Vivir Bien? Is it an idea that reclaims ethical principles and knowledge? A practice or proposal of the Andean indigenous peoples? A philosophy? A paradigm … Continue reading Notes for the Debate: Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir

Admin EnJuly 30, 2014March 14, 20172 Comments

Economy..., English, Tim Jackson

Video: Tim Jackson’s TED Talk: An economic reality check

[Tim Jackson, 2010] As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future. Of the credit and debt cycle, he says: “This is a strange, rather perverse story. It’s a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don’t have on things … Continue reading Video: Tim Jackson’s TED Talk: An economic reality check

Admin EnJuly 4, 2014July 4, 2014

Deglobalization, English, Walden Bello

The Alternative: Deglobalization

[Walden Bello, 2002] The crisis that is wrenching the current system of global economic governance is a systemic one. It is not one that can be addressed by mere adjustments within the system, for those would be merely marginal in their impact or they might merely postpone a bigger crisis. To borrow the insights of Thomas Kuhn’s classic Structure of Scientific Revolutions, when a paradigm … Continue reading The Alternative: Deglobalization

Admin EnJune 23, 2014June 25, 2014

English, Food Sovereignty, Peter Rosset

Moving Forward: Agrarian Reform as a Part of Food Sovereignty

[Peter Rosset, from Promised Land, 2006] “Food sovereignty implies the implementation of radical processes of comprehensive agrarian reform adapted to the conditions of each country and region, which will provide peasant and indigenous farmers—with equal opportunities for women—with equitable access to productive resources, primarily land, water, and forests, as well as the means of production, ﬁnancing, training, and capacity building for management and interlocution. Agrarian … Continue reading Moving Forward: Agrarian Reform as a Part of Food Sovereignty

Admin EnJune 16, 2014June 16, 2014