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!
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
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
La ecología política del progresismo sudamericano: los límites del progreso y la renovación verde de la izquierda
[Eduardo Gudynas] Después de una larga marcha, diferentes agrupamientos partidarios que se definen como progresistas o de izquierda, conquistaron los gobiernos en la mayoría de los países de América del Sur. Siguiendo ritmos y énfasis diversos, hacia fines de la década de 2000 se alcanzó un máximo de ocho países bajo gobiernos progresistas. Esta izquierda gobernante debió enfrentar urgencias y desafíos que ha sorteado de … Continue reading La ecología política del progresismo sudamericano: los límites del progreso y la renovación verde de la izquierda
Systemic Alternatives workshop August 21 2014
Systemic Alternatives workshop in the European Summer University of Social Movements of ATTAC, Paris, August 21 2014. More than one hundred participants in the dialog between Buen Vivir, deglobalization, the commons, degrowth, rights of Mother Earth… with Susan George, Alberto Acosta, Genevieve Azzam, Walden Bello, Christophe Aguiton, Aminata Traoré, Pablo Solón and many others. Continue reading Systemic Alternatives workshop August 21 2014
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
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
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
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
Notes for the debate: Deglobalization
Versión en español Download this text in PDF format World Integration for People and Nature What is Deglobalization? To answer that question, we must first be clear on our definition of globalization. Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan has compiled around one hundred definitions of globalization in his paper, “Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed Definition.”1 The majority tend to define the term as … Continue reading Notes for the debate: Deglobalization
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
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
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
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
The Deglobalisation Paradigm: A Critical Discourse on Alternatives
[Dorothy Grace Guerrero] Introduction The continuing and intensifying global economic crisis that started in the Eurozone and the United States (US), and has reverberated in India, China and other developing countries, is a concrete manifestation of the depth reached by globalisation. The world has experienced a number of financial crises before. However, the combination of the economic and ecological crises, the impacts of drastic reforms … Continue reading The Deglobalisation Paradigm: A Critical Discourse on Alternatives
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
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
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
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”
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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