Category: Contributors

Français, Others, Various

Pour une démocratie écologique

[Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside] Notre consommation ne cesse d’augmenter et la planète est exsangue. Confier notre salut au progrès technologique et à l’économie relève de l’illusion. Car la solution est politique : c’est à la refondation de notre démocratie représentative qu’il faut tendre. Nous partirons d’une hypothèse acquise pour les environnementalistes, mais dont la réception est mitigée dès qu’on sort d’un cercle restreint, soit pour des … Continue reading Pour une démocratie écologique

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English, Nature, Others, Various

The Role of Water Abuse in Climate Chaos

[Maude Barlow] Notes for the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit. New York City, September 20-23, 2013 There is a crucial, missing component in the both the current analysis of climate chaos and in the proposed solutions to it. Most climate academics and activists see climate chaos as almost solely the result of greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels as well as methane … Continue reading The Role of Water Abuse in Climate Chaos

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Analysis, Commons, Economic, English, François Houtart

SOUTH/SOUTH COLABORATION FOR A POST-CAPITALIST PARADIGM

[François Houtart[1]] In July 2014 a new step was taken towards constructing a multi-polar world, with the meeting in Brazil of the BRICS, the constitution of a new Bank and of a Fund for Development. This was followed by a joint meeting between the BRICS, UNASUR, the Organization of the South American States and CELAC (the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean). All this happened … Continue reading SOUTH/SOUTH COLABORATION FOR A POST-CAPITALIST PARADIGM

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Deglobalization, English, Various

Deglobalization

[Nicola Bullard] The term ‘deglobalization’ spread in debates on globalization after Walden Bello, one of the leading figures of the anti-globalization movement, elaborated the idea in several articles published in 2001. Bello developed the programme most fully in his 2002 book, Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy. There he affirmed that ‘deglobalization … is about re-orienting economies from the emphasis on production for export … Continue reading Deglobalization

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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

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Alternatives, Economy..., Español, Food Sovereignty, Various

Reforma Agraria Popular: Una alternativa al modelo del capital

[João Pedro Stedile y Osvaldo León, 26/06/2014] ALAI AMLATINA. Desde la década de los ’80, nos encontramos en una nueva fase del capitalismo hegemonizada por el capital financiero y las transnacionales, que pasaron a controlar la producción de las principales mercancías y el comercio mundial, suscitando cambios estructurales en la producción agrícola. Este control del capital financiero sobre los bienes, que circula en el mundo … Continue reading Reforma Agraria Popular: Una alternativa al modelo del capital

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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

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Alternatives, Analysis, Economic, Español, Various, Vivir Bien

Un acercamiento al “Buen vivir”

[Alfonso Ibáñez,  autor.Consejo de Educación Popular de América Latina y El Caribe]. Quisiera referirme a esta cuestión de la “vida buena” como una motivación para los intercambios que ya se están haciendo o que se van a hacer en estos días, porque me parece que es un asunto eminentemente filosófico, si comprendemos a la filosofía en su significado etimológico como el amor del saber o … Continue reading Un acercamiento al “Buen vivir”

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Alternatives, Español, Raúl Prada, Vivir Bien

Horizontes del Vivir Bien

[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

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Analysis, Español, Nature, Raúl Prada, Social Movements

Matricidio del Estado patriarcal

[Raúl Prada Alcoreza, 25 de julio de 2013] Evaluación de la “Ley marco de la Madre Tierra y desarrollo integral para vivir bien” La primera pregunta que se nos viene es: ¿Por qué una Ley de la Madre Tierra y Desarrollo Integral para el Vivir Bien? Por lo menos hay tres conceptos que darían lugar a tres leyes distintas, de las cuales no son congruentes … Continue reading Matricidio del Estado patriarcal

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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

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English, Socio cultural, Tim Jackson

Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism

[Tim Jackson] Society is faced with a profound dilemma. To resist economic growth is to court economic and social collapse. To pursue it relentlessly is to endanger the ecosystems on which we depend for long-term survival. For the most part, this dilemma goes unrecognised in government policy. It is only marginally more visible as a public debate. When reality begins to impinge on the collective … Continue reading Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism

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English, Others, Various

What does food sovereignty look like?

[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?

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Alternatives, Commons, Español, Events, Various

Nuevas pistas para la transición poscapitalista a partir de la gestión colectiva de los bienes comunes

[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

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Analysis, David Harvey, Economic, Español, Global, Various

Algunas ideas sobre Piketty

[ David Harvey] Publicado por Guillem Murcia, 20 mayo 2014. A continuación publicamos la reseña que el profesor David Harvey ha hecho del libro de Thomas Piketty “El Capital en el siglo XXI”. David Harvey es profesor en la City University of New York, y lleva más de 40 años enseñando, divulgando e investigando sobre la opera magna de Marx, El Capital. Entre sus contribuciones se halla una serie de clases en vídeo sobre la obra … Continue reading Algunas ideas sobre Piketty

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Ecosocialism, English, Feminism, Various

‘Ecofeminism’: a talk about hard work and great joy

[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

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Analysis, Español, Geopolitical, Global, Various

Los golpes de espectro completo

[Ana Esther Ceceña. ALAI AMLATINA, 21/05/2014]. Nuevos aires cargados de viejos hábitos soplan sobre los territorios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. La vocación hegemónica y su permanente necesidad de renovarse y reafirmarse trae consigo una cartera de elementos de seducción, disuasión o represión que pueden ser usados aislada o simultáneamente y que ofrecen la posibilidad de combinaciones muy diversas, versátiles y siempre, eso sí, con … Continue reading Los golpes de espectro completo

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Deglobalization, English, Various

Alternative Regionalisms: Alternatives to Neo-liberal Globalisation

[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

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David Harvey, Economic, English

Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital

[David Harvey] Thomas Piketty has written a book called Capital that has caused quite a stir. He advocates progressive taxation and a global wealth tax as the only way to counter the trend towards the creation of a “patrimonial” form of capitalism marked by what he dubs “terrifying” inequalities of wealth and income. He also documents in excruciating and hard to rebut detail how social … Continue reading Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital

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Español, Esther Vivas, Others

¿La agricultura campesina y ecológica puede alimentar al mundo?

[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?

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