Interview with Ruth Mwangi
Ashish Kothari interviews Ruth Mwangi about the path-breaking idea of “Community Currencies” and how it is being implemented in Kenya. Read the story on our partner’s website Radical Ecological Democracy.
Categories
- About us (2)
- Debates (19)
- Alternatives in a World of Crisis (1)
- Democracy (8)
- Green Colonialism (1)
- Just Transition (3)
- Urban Transformation (6)
- Gatherings (5)
- Publications (4)
- Voices from the ground (19)
Community Currency: Kenya’s Sarafu-Credit Voucher System
Posted on by ruth-mwangi
Interview with Ruth Mwangi Ashish Kothari interviews Ruth Mwangi about the path-breaking idea of “Community Currencies” and how it is being implemented in Kenya. Read the story on our […]
Voices from the ground
Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle
by Hamza Hamouchene Originally published at: https://www.tni.org/en/article/vietnam-algeria-palestine Introduction ‘Revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; […]
Debates
Webinar on The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions
As the ecological and climate crisis deepens, the Global North has put forward (false) solutions such as renewable energy, electric cars, carbon trading, and green […]
Commenting on “Revolutionary Immanence?”
by Aram Ziai The article is a highly interesting piece which demonstrates the author‘s familiarity with the theoretical debate about anti-capitalist revolutions as well as […]
Revolutionary immanence? Exploring the political idea of social movements
by Soumitra Ghoshs Introduction: theories of movements, but where is the praxis? Murray Bookchin once commented that the tragedy of Marxism was that it had […]
Can social movements democratise democracy?
“Extraordinary events are beyond the scope of ordinary explanations” Edgard Morin Lessons from the Yellow Vests movement in France by Maxime Combes “Democracy is not […]
What mark have the Yellow Vests left on French democracy?
by Ethan Earle Almost two years after the first protests and shortly after the 2020 Bastille Day: What to make out of the Yellow Vests […]
“For the democratic production of democratic societies” – Lessons from the transition from social-movement-driven to state-legislated consultations on extractive projects in Peru
by Raphael Hoetmer Over the last two decades, various consultation practices regarding extractive activities have emerged and been implemented throughout Latin America. Some practices adopt […]
Democracy
Commenting on “Revolutionary Immanence?”
by Aram Ziai The article is a highly interesting piece which demonstrates the author‘s familiarity with the theoretical debate about anti-capitalist revolutions as well as […]
by Aram Ziai
Post Date
3 years ago
Just Transition
What mark have the Yellow Vests left on French democracy?
by Ethan Earle Almost two years after the first protests and shortly after the 2020 Bastille Day: What to make out of the Yellow Vests […]
Gatherings
[2023] Debts and Reparations (Jackson)
We are daughters for freedom, we are cimarronas, we are the Mississippi, the Cauca, the Magdalena, the Atrato… we are happy and rebellious caribbeans, we […]
[2022] Just transitions (Dakar)
Between the ecological modernization of capitalism and the multi-crisis: how to build the eco-social transformation the world needs? The Global Working Group Beyond Development[1] met […]
[2016] Overcoming the Development Imperative (Brussels)
Given the highly uneven dynamics of global capitalism and the constantly occurring crises in many regions of the world, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office, invited to a first meeting to enhance a transnational exchange of global and local problems as well as resistances and alternatives.
[2017] Alternatives in a World of crisis (Quito)
FROM STOPPING THE MACHINES OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION, TO THE BUILDING OF ALTERNATIVE WORLDS: RETHINKING OUR STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Jun 15th, 2017 by Raphael Hoetmer From […]
[2018] Urban Transformations (Barcelona)
URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS AROUND THE WORLD The book Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations Around the World (July 2020) is the third publication of the Global Working […]