Announcing the Community Economies Institute Summer-Winter School, Researching Postcapitalist Possibilities, 10 to 19 June 2025.
Expressions of interest closed on 21 February 2025 but places are still available in the Norway face-to-face node. All other nodes are full (with waitlists for those interested). If you are keen, please email Jenny Cameron, school at communityeconomies dot org.
The…
What is your life’s work? This is a question that Caroline Shenaz Hossein poses in a recent podcast discussion as she reflects on how her life’s work has been devoted to changing mindsets so that people develop an ethical economic consciousness that is centred on norms and values such as cooperation and communal wellbeing, rather…
Community Economies Institute Co-Chair, Professor Emerita Katherine Gibson, presented a seminar on "Postcapitalist Community Economies Here and Now" on 26 February as part of Power Up seminar series at the University of Vermont, Institute for Agroecology. The seminar recording is available online, click here. …
Early registration is now open for the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies Spring School.
The 4-day in-person event will take place from March 25 to March 28, 2025, in Rovereto, (TN), Italy.
The School is based on a two-year Erasmus+ project that is investigating how…
A team of CERN and CEI researchers from Aotearoa New Zealand have been awarded a Marsden Fund grant to investigate collective actions to reduce waste.
Conventional approaches to waste reduction focus on getting individuals to change their attitudes and behaviours, often through actions like recycling.
Instead this…
This is a public submission made to the Australian Federal Government's Select Committee on the Future of Work and Workers (2018). The submission highlights that it is not sufficient to focus on technological change in and of itself, rather technological change needs to be developed in service to forms of work and ways of working that directly contribute to social and environmental wellbeing.
If communities are constituted by commoning, what are some of the tensions in this idea for thinking about communities of care, where care labour is gendered, classed and colonised? This article reflects on these tensions through the idea of the 'nitty-gritty' of care in communities, using two examples from Aotearoa New Zealand: Te Hiko Centre for Community Innovation in Porirua, and Life in Vacant Spaces in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Diverse Economies Iceberg by Community Economies Collective and translated into French by Anna Kruzynski (École des affaires publiques et communautaires · School of Community & Public Affairs; Université · Concordia · University), 2025, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Conventional approaches to waste reduction focus on getting individuals to change their attitudes and behaviours, often through actions like recycling.
This guide to the Wellington region in Aotearoa New Zealand documents a range of innovative initiatives helping activate and maintain transitions in ecological, energy, economic, community and built environment.
