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 CERN LIVIANA online conference will be delivered by Bhavya Chitranshi who will reflect on 10 years of doing collaborative action research work with the Eka Nari Sanghathan (ENS, the single women’s collective) in the village of Emaliguda in Odisha, India.
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The first keynote for the CERN LIVIANA conference will be delivered by Professor Kathrin Böhm (Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences) and Dr Kuba Szreder (Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw) who will introduce research and methodologies used by the Centre for Plausible Economies (which they co-established in 2018) to identify and foster interdependent…
In order to mitigate the worst forecasts of climate change, many of us need to make drastic adjustments to how we live and what we consume. For Kelly Dombroski, these changes must also happen in the home: in rethinking routines of care and hygiene that still rely on disposable and plastic products. Caring for Life examines the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices and amplifies the creative work of ordinary
Artist Ailie Rutherford has been working with Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) to visualise the complex nature of work and care for many women. The Pouring Out, Pouring In exhibition shares prints and other outcomes from the Mapping Women’s Work workshop series at GWL. Building on a University of Glasgow study, the women involved have mapped out their multiple paid and unpaid roles, thinking together about how a more equitable economic system
Focusing very tightly on just four blocks of a single street in Manhattan (New York City), the book shows how formations of gentrification and policing are connected to forms of common sense and everyday practice which, I argue, are informed by people’s ordinary sensibilities as situated/embedded in urban space and place.
Many formulations of economy, even those that substantially challenge the narrow confines of market-centered economism, tend to assume a discrete human subject at the center of the action. Whether maximizing, optimizing, making ethical decisions, or just “getting by,” rational or quasi-rational humans enact the economy through their work of making a living—laboring, producing, transacting, saving, investing, and negotiating various forms of
This paper critically examines the dominant role of concrete in the modernization of Asian cities since the mid twentieth century. While builders, architects, planners and citizens have long praised the advantages of concrete, we argue that concrete can no longer be seen as socially and environmentally neutral in the Anthropocene. When concrete cracks, it does so literally and metaphorically. The cracks manifest not only in the actual
