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…
“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…
The first keynote for the 2024 CERN LIVIANA online 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…
The Community Economies Institute Summer/Winter School is in its last few days and it wraps up on Thursday 27 June.
Nearly 50 participants from fifteen countries have been participating through five nodes.
During the first part of the school the focus was on the foundational concepts of Community Economies research and practice,…
Three new books have been published recently in the Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds book series edited by J. K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Healy, Maliha Safri and Kevin St. Martin, and published by University of Minnesota Press.
The 9th EMES International Training School will take place in Trento (Italy) from 30 June to July 4, 2024.
The School is held every two years, and the 2024 theme is "Developing Transdisciplinary Research Capacities to Advance the SE Field in the Face of Multidimensional Crises: Exploring the different facets of the…
Researching Postcapitalist Possibilities, 18 to 27 June
A SMALL NUMBER OF PLACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE at some nodes.
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The fourth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) LIVIANA International Online Conference has just concluded and recordings from the 26 sessions have been uploaded to the LIVIANA 2023 Playlist that is part of the…
In Postcapitalist Imaginaries of Finance: A Diverse-Economies Perspective on Equubs within the Ethiopian Diaspora in Germany, a recently published open access article, CERN members Michael Emru Tadesse and…
In a recently published article, The Diversity of Solidarity Economies: A View from Danish Minority Gangs, CEI member Christina Jerne explores solidarity economies in the unlikely setting of Danish minority gangs.
The gangs that Jerne studied have their roots…
The recently published open access collection Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste (Leiden University Press, 2023) will be the focus of an online Symposium, 12 October, 4pm (Sydney time), organised by the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) Asia and Centre for Sustainable Communities,…
A group of Community Economies Research Network (CERN) members and close colleagues organised two sessions on ‘Degrowth from the East’ at the 9th International Degrowth conference in Zagreb, Croatia, 28th August to 2nd September.
The current issue of Future-Makers features Community Economies Research Network (CERN) member Bhavya Chitranshi and her research with Eka Nari Sanghathan (or “single women’s collective”).
As reported in Future-Makers, in 2013 Chitranshi moved to Emaliguda in eastern India to immerse herself in the…
The work of Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein has been featured in Ms. magazine, in an article by Rickey Gard Diamond on…
An Action Plan for better protecting Aotearoa New Zealand's te taiao (the environment that contains and surrounds us) was recently launched at Victoria University Wellington | Te Herenga Waka.
The Plan was developed over a two-year period by New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, Adaptive Governance and Policy Working Group that includes CERN member Maria…
The Station for Transformation project, which will convert the main building of the Rovereto train station in the Italian alps into a public-civic hub for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and heritage regeneration, has been awarded a European Urban Initiative – Innovation Actions grant of almost €5 million.
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The following article by Kootyin Chow, Community Economies Research Network (CERN) member, first appeared on SAPIENS, 5 April 2023, under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here.
The first keynote of the 2022 CERN LIVIANA conference was delivered by Dr Priscilla Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Geography and Latinx and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, who explored the lived tactics of Black survival especially by Black women who are experimenting with…
The second keynote of the 2022 CERN LIVIANA conference was delivered by Associate Professor Stephen Healy, Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, who focused on ways of responding to climate change in an urban context such as Sydney.
Healy’s presentation “…
