The fifth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) LIVIANA 2024 International Online Conference was held Monday 4 November to Friday 15 November, with 28 sessions covering topics that ranged from diverse democracies and diverse economies, Indigenous-led co-design, diverse economies in more-than-human worlds, art-based practices, and decolonising economies.
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The Department of Decolonial Economics at El Cambalache, based in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, is running two online workshops, September to November 2024 (in English and Spanish).
The first workshop, ‘Liberatory Methods for Investigating and Generating Non-Capitalist / Anti-Colonial Social Power,’ explores practices and methods that can be…
In a recent blog posting, Markus Sattler, Lilian Pungas and the Polička Collective reflect on their experience of writing collaboratively on the topic of diverse economies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The collective, consisting of ten scholars at varying stages of their academic careers,…
“Listening to and learning from others in the pluriverse” is how Miriam Williams characterises Kelly Dombroski’s recent book Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).
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The keynote for the second week of the 2024 CERN LIVIANA online conference will be delivered by Bhavya Chitranshi who will reflect on 10 years of doing collaborative action research work with Eka Nari Sanghathan (ENS, the single women’s collective) in the village of Emaliguda in Odisha,…
This article came out of many years of thinking and talking together about our earlier work in an urban youth garden in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. We were really interested in the way youth talked about the changes in themselves as people who could learn to care for each other and shared spaces (commons). We had the opportunity to publish in a special issue of Cities on storying the 'counter-city', so we used our thinking
We wrote this piece about JK Gibson-Graham's thinking on space and place. It is an updated version of Wendy Larner's earlier chapter.
I wrote this piece for a special issue on emerging methodologies in care and care-giving in Asia Pacific. In it, I reflect on some of the embodied aspects of ethnographic methods that we sometimes overlook. I use Anna Tsing's idea of awkward engagements, but apply it as an embodied method for sensing and responding to different pluriversal realities. The context is myself as a Pākehā New Zealand European person doing research work in the
La Foresta is a community academy that is located at the train station of Rovereto in the valley of Vallagarina, Trentino, an autonomous province in the North of Italy. The project was collectively founded in 2017, the initiators were motivated by the desire to create a space where different cultures and the various civic actors in the area could come together to learn from each other, both in theory and practice, in order to
What can it mean to shift from a critical to a caring design practice? I raise this issue as urgent and significant within the interdependent planetary dynamics of climate breakdown, rapid species extinction and the vertiginous exacerbation of social inequalities spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. To explore this question, I take my own participatory and research-led design practice as a reference point that helps me to ref lect on
