2025 Books by CERN Members
Throughout 2025, members of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) have published books on an array of topics. Many of these books are open access.
Congratulations to all.
January 2025. Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. By Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy and Craig Borowiak. Published by Uni of Minnesota Press; 10th book in the Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds series. Click here for Open Access Manifold Edition.
Extras include:
- YouTube Interview with Richard Wolff, click here
- New Books in Economics Podcast, click here
- Honorable Mention for the 2026 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize
- Pattis Family Global Cities Book Award long list.
February 2025. Grassroots Economics: Reflections and Practice. By William O. Ruddick. Published by Grassroots Economics Foundation. Open Access.
Extras include:
- Audio recordings of each chapter, click here.
- CERN LIVIANA session with Will Ruddick, click here for YouTube recording.
March 2025. Weaving a Fabric of Unity: Conversations on Education and Development. By Haleh Arbab, Gustavo Correa and Bradley Wilson. Published by West Virginia University Press.
March 2025. Transitions in Action: An Urban and Regional Transitions Guide for Te Upoko o Te Ika Wellington. By Amanda Yates, Gradon Diprose Kelly Dombroski and Thomas Nash. Published by He Kāinga, Whakamana Tangata, Whakamana Taiao | Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities. Open Access.
May 2025. Retheorising capitalism. Edited by Anni Kangas, Iuliia Gataulina, Mikko Poutanen, Anna Ilona Rajala and Henna-Elise Ventovirta. Published by Tampere University Press. Click here for Open Access version.
Includes chapter by CERN Members Kelly Dombroski, Leo Hwang, Aviv Kruglanski, Heather McLean, Georgia McLellan, Molly Mullen, Henna-Elise Ventovirta and Kerry Woodward.
May 2025. Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom: Imagining Alternatives. By Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar. Published by Bristol University Press.
June 2025. Taku Waipiataata, Taku Hei Tāwhiri - Cherishing Tamariki Through Tūpuna Child Rearing. By Joni Māramatanga Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa). Published by Tūpuna Parenting and Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre. Open Access.
July 2025. Eco-Communities: Surviving Well Together. Edited by Jenny Pickerill. Published by Bloomsbury Academic. Click here for the Open Access version.
Includes chapters by CERN members Jenny Pickerill, Nadia Johanisova and Thomas S. J. Smith.
July 2025. Amplifying Māori Approaches: The Transformative Potential of Māori Economies. By Matthew Scobie (Kāi Tahu), with co-authors Tayla Forward (Ngāpuhi), Georgia McLellan (Whakatōhea & Ngāi Te Rangi), Jack Barrett (Ngāpuhi), and Danielle Webb (Ngāpuhi). Published by Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa. Open Access.
July 2025. Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism. By Christina Jerne. Published by University of Minnesota Press, and the 11th book in the Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds book series.
Extras include:
- University of Minnesota Press Podcast, Episode 127, click here
- New Books in Italian Studies Podcast, click here.
September 2025. The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981. By Daniel Wortel-London. Published by the University of Chicago Press.
Extras include University of Chicago Audio, click here.
September 2025. Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future. Edited Lewis Akenji, Philip J. Vergragt, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Thomas S.J. Smith, Laura Maria Wallnöfer. Published by Routledge. Open Access.
An interactive online 'Wiki' version is available through the Hot or Cool Institute: https://vocabulary.hotorcool.org/ .
Includes chapter by CERN Members Lindsay Naylor, Zeynep Özsoy, Benedikt Schmid, Adrian Smith, Thomas S.J. Smith, Lucie Sovová.
November 2025. New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies: explorations into the economic modes of organising of the New European Bauhaus community. By Bianca Elzenbaumer. Published by La Foresta - community academy (IT) and Trajna (SLO). Click here for Open Access publication.
November 2025. All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces. By Lindsay Naylor with Emerald Christopher LaToya Eaves, Eden Kinkaid and Caroline Faria. Published by University of Georgia Press.
December 2025. Conundrums of Care: Feminist Entanglements in Critical Development Studies. By Wendy Harcourt. Published by Bloomsbury. Open Access.