GWG Beyond Development – Page 2 – Toward Systemic Emancipatory Transformations

On the Cusp: Reframing Democracy and Well-Being in Korchi, India

by Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende Introduction Mainstream governance and development models – characterised by seemingly democratic but inherently centralised and top-down governance systems and extractive, commercially motivated, capitalist economic policies – have failed to achieve minimum levels of well-being for a very large part of humanity. They have in fact caused large-scale human and environmental injustice. […]

Neema Pathak Broomeand Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende Current movements 0 33 min read

New book! CITIES OF DIGNITY: Urban transformations around the world (July 2020)

Participants of the Global Working Group Beyond Development are pleased to announce the launch of their third publication: Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations Around the World. The book, written by movement-based authors, was presented at the Vienna 2020 Degrowth Conference on June 1st. Download the book [PDF version HERE] [EPUB-ebook format available soon] One of the main challenges that strategies […]

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Introduction to the Democracy debate

Is democracy a stronghold of social struggles or is it rather an institutional framework imposed by capitalism? Why are fascism and different kinds of authoritarianism coming back through elections? How can the scandalous inequality that structures contemporary capitalism and obviously limits democratic decision making strongly be dealt with?

Miriam Lang Democracy debate 0 3 min read

Democracy and transformation in the time of pandemic politics

by Mary Ann Manahan and Miriam Lang As the world reels from historically unprecedented socio-economic and political impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19), many governments are rolling out emergency measures and guidelines for physical distancing, lockdowns, and quarantines, closing of borders, and restrictions of people’s movements in an effort to flatten the curve. Of great concern among social and labor movements, […]

Mary Ann Manahan and Miriam Lang Democracy debate 0 10 min read

New Political Horizons: Beyond The “Democratic” Nation-State

by Gustavo Esteva In these pages, I explain why it is not possible to eliminate the despotic nature of the “democratic” nation-state. Recognizing its limits opens up the exploration of many options for the people to rule themselves. Democratic despotism Small groups of people have ruled themselves, freely formulating the norms of their ways of living and dying in their […]

Gustavo Esteva Democracy debate 0 31 min read

On reading Esteva’s ‘Beyond the Democratic Nation-State’

by Arie Salleh Sydney January 10th, 2020. Gustavo Esteva writes with the sincerity and simplicity of one deeply experienced in the politics of everyday life. He rarely calls on academic terms, unless there is good reason. So his essay opens by tracing the idea of democracy from Ancient Greece, through the Treaty of Westphalia, French Revolution, and on to the […]

Ariel Salleh Democracy debate 0 3 min read

Guendalizaá: The reconstruction of the “We”

Challenges to intercultural democracy in the Plurinational State of Bolivia: case study of the Monkoxɨ peoples of Lomerío

On the Cusp: Reframing Democracy and Well-Being in Korchi, India

New book! CITIES OF DIGNITY: Urban transformations around the world (July 2020)

Introduction to the Democracy debate

Democracy and transformation in the time of pandemic politics

New Political Horizons: Beyond The “Democratic” Nation-State

On reading Esteva’s ‘Beyond the Democratic Nation-State’

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