[Raúl Prada Alcoreza, 25 de agosto de 2012]. Introducción.- El vivir bien [2] se ha convertido en un acontecimiento político e ideológico, también por qué no conceptual, en tanto se busca una alternativa civilizatoria, pensar una alternativa al capitalismo, a la modernidad y al desarrollo. El discurso del vivir bien es convocativo, es movilizador, también forma parte de la emergencia de las cosmovisiones indígenas, así … Continue reading Horizontes del Vivir Bien
[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
[Raj Patel, Journal of Peasant Studies 36:3, 2009] Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina’s call for food sovereignty is precisely about invoking a right to have rights over food. But it’s unclear quite how to cash out these ideas. This Grassroots Voices section examines some of the difficulties involved in parlaying … Continue reading What does food sovereignty look like?
[Pablo Dávalos, 5 de agosto de 2008] La noción del buen vivir (sumak kawsay), como una nueva condición de contractualidad política, jurídica y natural, ha empezado su recorrido en el horizonte de posibilidades humanas, y de la mano de los pueblos indígenas de Ecuador y Bolivia. Es fundamental, entonces, empezar una reflexión sobre el sumak kawsay (buen vivir) en términos en los que el positivismo … Continue reading Reflexiones sobre el sumak kawsay (el buen vivir) y las teorías del desarrollo
[Fundación Solón, noviembre de 2013] Investigadores, académicos y activistas de varios países de América Latina y Europa aportaron nuevos elementos y propuestas concretas para la elaboración colectiva de modelos de desarrollo alternativos en la “Conferencia internacional bienes comunes y nuevos paradigmas civilizatorios” que sesionó en la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia, del 18 al 20 de noviembre de 2013. Hace más de dos años, activistas, … Continue reading Nuevas pistas para la transición poscapitalista a partir de la gestión colectiva de los bienes comunes
[Maria Mies, Roar Magazine] Recently, the UK-based publisher Zed Books launched its Critique Influence Change series, which “brings together pivotal texts by notable academics and activists from Zed Books’ publishing of the last thirty-five years”. Over the coming weeks ROAR will publish a series of interviews with some of the authors from this varied and inspiring collection of critical analyses and theories. We will look … Continue reading ‘Ecofeminism’: a talk about hard work and great joy
[Jose Briceño Ruiz, 2007] Alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation are needed that not only change people-to-people and South-South relations and situations, but also South-North relations and inter-actions to the benefit of all of humanity and our common planetary home. The new “alternative regionalisms” being promoted by social movements are, on the one hand, ‘alternative’ to the increasingly neo-liberal directions being taken, and the regional trade and investment … Continue reading Alternative Regionalisms: Alternatives to Neo-liberal Globalisation
[Esther Vivas] La población mundial, se calcula, llegará en 2050 a los 9.600 millones de habitantes, según un informe de las Naciones Unidas. Lo que significa, 2.400 millones más de bocas que alimentar. Ante estas cifras, se extiende un discurso oficial que afirma que para dar de comer a tantísimas personas es imprescindible producir más. Sin embargo, es necesario preguntarnos: ¿Hoy falta comida? ¿Se cultiva … Continue reading ¿La agricultura campesina y ecológica puede alimentar al mundo?
[Thomas Berry, October 24, 1975] A Statement of the Occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the United Nations at the Spiritual Summit Conference V On this thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations we wish to indicate to you our esteem for the work you have accomplished. For thirty years this body has carried within itself many of the larger hopes and destinies … Continue reading Catching the Power of the Wind
Un entretien avec Yayo Herrero Yayo Herrero s’intéresse à la « décroissance juste » et aux questions qui lui sont associées. Pour elle, « la productivité capitaliste ne cherche pas à satisfaire les besoins », alors que « nous devons lier la production au maintien de la vie, non à sa destruction ». Elle est l’une des trois responsables coordinatrices de la confédération « Ecologistes en Action » (Etat espagnol) ; elle appartient également … Continue reading Décroissance juste et écoféminisme
[Ariel Salleh, 1997] Ecological crisis displaces modernist political analyses – liberalism, socialism, feminism. It provokes us to re-frame our history, to inscribe a new understanding of ourselves in relation to Nature, so called, and to ask how can we get to live this new sensibility in practical ways.1 That political moment is long due. The bourgeois and proletarian revolutions evaporated before realising their full potential; feminists … Continue reading Ecology Reframes History
[Frei Betto and Michael Löwy, 2009] We would like to start our conference here at the World Social Forum of Belem with a homage to two personalities of high human quality, which gave their lives for the defense of the Amazonian forest, and the Peoples of the Forest: Chico Mendes and Dorothy Stang. They are the best known, the visible tip of the iceberg, of … Continue reading Ecosocialism and Spirituality
[Pablo Solon, 2012] Entretien avec Pablo Solon par Jade Lindgaard, publie le vendredi 7 Septembre, 2012 Le cycle de discussions préparatoires, avant la conférence de l’ONU sur le climat de novembre, à Doha, s’est tenu cette semaine à Bangkok. Enjeu : comment financer le Fonds vert pour le climat destiné à aider les pays pauvres à faire face au réchauffement climatique ? Et que faire … Continue reading «Il ne faut pas se battre pour la croissance mais pour la redistribution»
[Claire Brossaud] 1) Le festival Villes en biens communs sera particulièrement bien représenté à Lyon : quelles seront les principales thématiques abordées ? La particularité de Lyon est de couvrir un large spectre de thématiques qui va bien au delà du numérique : l’environnement, l’espace public, l’art, le savoir et la formation, l’économie collaborative, la participation citoyenne, etc. Certains événements font même cohabiter ensemble plusieurs … Continue reading Villes en biens communs : interviews croisées
Entretien avec Elinor Ostrom, professeure de science politique à l’Université d’Indiana, “prix Nobel” d’économie 2009* par Alice Le Roy, 14 June, 2010 Elinor Ostrom est peu connue dans le monde francophone. L’attribution en octobre 2009, avec l’économiste Oliver Williamson, du prix de la banque de Suède en sciences économiques en mémoire d’Alfred Nobel (le « prix Nobel » d’économie), pour la première fois à une … Continue reading Plaidoyer pour la complexité
[Walden Bello, lecture, 30 April 2014] Let me place my coming remarks in context, and the global context has among its key features the following: Long-term stagnation in the United States. Depression in Europe. Increasing gap in wealth in nearly all countries and globally: the richest 1% of the global population owns 40% of total assets, and the richest 10% accounts for 85%. Financialization has … Continue reading What Is to Be Done? The Six Pillars of Deglobalization
[Eduardo Gudynas] Buen Vivir or Vivir Bien, are the Spanish words used in Latin America to describe alternatives to development focused on the good life in a broad sense. The term is actively used by social movements, and it has become a popular term in some government programs and has even reached its way into two new Constitutions in Ecuador and Bolivia. It is a plural concept … Continue reading Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow
[Francois Houtart] Con el desarrollo de los BRICS, las relaciones Sur-Sur ayudan a crear un mundo multipolar, pero no cambian el modelo de desarrollo colectivo. De hecho este grupo de países se desarrollan al interior según el esquema capitalista y establecen con sus periferias, relaciones similares a los vínculos Norte- Sur existentes. El Ecuador, uno de los pocos países del Sur que adopto medidas pos-neo-liberales, no … Continue reading Cómo construir un nuevo modelo de desarrollo para la cooperación sur-sur
[Aseem Shrivastava] In his victory speech President Obama spoke of a planet in peril. In doing so he fell prey to the cognitive lapse that pits us against the environment, rather than part of it, and miscommunicates the nature of the ecological threat as just another problem to be fixed with more technology. “We should fear the consequences of changing the composition of the atmosphere.” James … Continue reading The planet – and we – are in peril
[Versión en español] Brief Background: This living document is a result of an extensive process led by the Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), Gerak Lawan, La Via Campesina and the supporters of the #EndWTO Campaign. A draft document was written and circulated online before the #EndWTO Week of Action parallel to the 9th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization in Bali, Indonesia last … Continue reading Economy for Life in our Earth community
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