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La exposición de Katherine Gibson en el plenario de la Conferencia Liviana del CERN inaugural ahora está disponible online (en Youtube) apretando aquí.
En el plenario, titulado Thinking with Community Economies (“Pensando con Economías Comunitarias”, en español), Gibson…

The plenary address by Katherine Gibson for the inaugural CERN Liviana Conference is now available online (on YouTube) by clicking here.
In the plenary, entitled Thinking with Community Economies, Gibson explored some of the ways that community economies scholars are thinking with and…

The final presentation in the CERN online Liviana conference was on the theme of Indigenous-led economic codesign, and was presented by Community Economy Research Network members Alison Guzman and Ignacio Krell who reflected on the process of working with the Mapuche-Lafkenche people of Lof Llaguepulli in the Lake Budi…

During the second week of the online Liviana conference The Interdependence was launched to an international audience.
The Interdependence is a multi-local alliance between community economies initiatives that identify as being part of the alliance by using the identifier .idt, an alternative to more familiar identifiers such as .ltd or Inc.
The Interdependence…
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