In 2026, the CEI Summer/Winter School is taking a rest. In its place the CEI is running an online workshop, 'The Politics and Practice of Writing for Community Economies.'
The writing workshop will run in June 2026 for those in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Europe; and it will be repeated in November/December 2026 for those in the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
It will be led by Dr…
Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein's recent 2024 book, The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks, is now available as an open access publication from the University of Toronto Press.
The book focuses on the informal co-operative banks and rotating savings and credit associations (…
The Winter 2025 Special Issue of the Journal of Co-operative Studies explores the theme of worker co-operatives and concern for community, and includes contributions by members of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN).
One of the Guest Editors, CERN Member Eleonore Perrin says “the special issue is inspired by co-operative…
The sixth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) international online conference was held Monday 3 November to Friday 14 November 2025. Most sessions were recorded and are available here. Some recordings are in Spanish.
This was the largest LIVIANA conference to date with 31 sessions ranging from those on social design to…
A new report by Dr Joni Māramatanga Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi | Ngāti Whātua | Te Roroa) from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, and member of the Community Economies Research Network, serves as a bridge between the past and the future by exploring ancestral Māori parenting and contributing to the growing body of work that seeks to reestablish Māori ways of nurturing tamariki (children).
The report,…
This paper interweaves fragments of our digital epistolary exchanges with the exercises and prompts we practiced during long-distance online meetings. We reflect on our first conversation, sparked in a taxi en route to an abandoned construction site in Oaxaca—once meant to be a luxury hotel, now reclaimed by a local arts collective. Amidst its post-apocalyptic remains, we found ourselves fervently discussing class hierarchies in the UK, from
This volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional modus operandi that is rooted in a highly original artistic synthesis of a range of practices. Over the last three decades, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged ways of working to an unprecedented scale and
We re-visit our chapter, "Economy as Ecological Livelihood" ten years later to unpack many of the ways it has reproduced colonialism in its framing and articulation. Seeking to take responsibility for our mistakes, we hope this self-critique can be generative of further work to better align community economies and livelihoods thinking with anti-colonial and decolonial priorities and movements.
This paper identifies characteristics of a 'composting ethic' and grassroots community contexts and skills supporting its emergence.
