Ashish Kothari

From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature By Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo & Ashish Kothari Panchi nadiya pawan ke jhonke Koi sarhad na inhe roke Sarhadein insaano ke liye hai Socho tumne aur maine kya paaya insaan hoke” (Translation) “Birds, rivers and the gusts of wind No borders can stop them The borders are […]

Do we have the stomach for it? by Ashish Kothari “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live”, said Socrates. Wisdom, or a wisecrack? In a world in which a couple of billion people don’t have adequate nutritious food, while another billion or more fall ill due to overconsumption or a diet of junk food, Socrates’ distinction makes deadly sense, though reality is […]

A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse In Part I of this two-part article, we discussed various proposals for a Green New Deal (GND) advanced by progressive forces in the Global North, in terms of their impact on the Global South. We discussed the cost-shifting imperative in capitalism, historical and ongoing […]

by Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption. The year 2019 and the first few months of 2020 have thrown up unprecedented ecological crises. Even before COVID-19, ecological crises were raging across the world: wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon, unheard-of summer temperatures in Antarctica, record floods […]