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Category Archives: ecology
Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structure complexes and coloniality.
Originally posted on Uncommontater:
Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structures and coloniality. This is a working paper in which I explore some ideas I’ve been working with. It takes a long and comprehensive view of where we are, how we…
Posted in coloniality, Disability, ecology, Equality, ideology, psychology
Tagged 21st Century malaise, coloniality, ecology, inequality, the mess we're in
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Fracking near home
Sunday and I joined the rally against iGas’s exploratory drilling for shale gas and coal bed methane at Barton Moss near Eccles, just across the Ship Canal from here. It was a good turnout – my estimate is around 400 … Continue reading
It’s the climate, stupid. Preventing the coming catastrophe.
So of course this is the no 1 story that dominates all political discourse, no? Planet likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn (the Guardian) http://gu.com/p/3ygbq/tw “New climate model taking greater account of cloud changes indicates heating will … Continue reading
We must articulate and publicise viable alternatives.
In the last few days I’ve been moved to write two responses to public statements that each in their way exemplify the bankruptcy of dominant understandings of the challenges facing our society and economy. The first was from Richard Leese, … Continue reading
Festival review: El Sueño Existe
http://thejazzbreakfast.com/2013/09/02/festival-review-el-sueno-existe/ Well this review has saved me the job of writing a post on El Sueño Existe (The Dream Lives On). It captures very well the unique feel of the festival which, at 40 years after the imperio-fascist coup in … Continue reading
Posted in coloniality, ecology, Latin America, music
Tagged Chile, extractivism, nueva canción
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Too much green growth
An interesting concept, isn’t Green Growth OK? One problem of the idea of ‘sustainable growth’ is that nobody yet has found a way to ensure that the resource throughputs of an economy are decoupled from its growth, whatever the nature … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, everyday life
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Venezuela: promise and challenge
One of the best articles I’ve seen on the state of the Venezuelan “Bolivarian Revolution”: it sets out its promise and the challenges and contradictions it faces. Notable among them is this: “…the priority to preserve the planet and save … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, Latin America
Tagged Bolivia, buen vivir, Ecuador, neo-extractivism, Venezuela, vivir bien
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Well-being and economic alternatives – a week with 2 conferences
On Monday I went to a conference on Extractives and Development in the Andes. It was at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at Univ of London and co-sponsored by Bolivia Infor,mation Forum and Peru Support group. The … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, Latin America, Uncategorized
Tagged buen vivir, Cuba, ecology, economy, Latin America, steady state economics, Steady State Manchester
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Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structures and coloniality.
Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structures and coloniality. This is a working paper in which I explore some ideas I’ve been working with. It takes a long and comprehensive view of where we are, how we got here, and what … Continue reading
Posted in coloniality, ecology, economics, Equality, ideology, Latin America, NHS
Tagged 21st Century malaise, coloniality, exclusion, global crisis, ideology, oppression, the mess we're in
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Mending clothes
On the way to Making Another World Real: Latin America Today on 26 Jan, as I got on the tram money fell out of my trousers, one of 2 pairs of very nice green corduroys bought in Valencia back in … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, everyday life, Latin America, Manchester
Tagged sewing, stewardship
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