Working across and against nation-state and continental borders, disciplinary boundaries, and institutional barriers, we return to the feminist roots of autonomous knowledge production, challenging what counts as legitimate knowledge and who is granted the right to produce and receive it… While we strongly oppose the privatisation of education at all…
SYMPOIETIC AND AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS:A NEW DISTINCTION FOR SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS Beth Dempster School of Planning, University of Waterloo,Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1 E-mail: mbldemps@fes.uwaterloo.ca Sympoiesis vs. Autopoiesis To gain an understanding of the two poietic system heuristics and the significance of their differences, some specific definitions applied by Maturana and Varela…
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice Community Engagement The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) has developed and embraces a model for community partnership that is called “Communiversity.” This model emphasizes a collaborative partnership between universities and communities. The partnership promotes bilateral understanding and mutual respect between community residents and…
FADA Corinna Dengler, Camila Rolando Mazzuca and Renda Belmallem The Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDA) network was launched in September 2016 at the 5th International Degrowth Conference in Budapest. As an inclusive network of both academics and activists, FaDA aims at fostering a dialogue between feminists and degrowth proponents and…
Degrowth Network By “degrowth“, we understand a form of society and economy which aims at the well-being of all and sustains the natural basis of life. To achieve degrowth, we need a fundamental transformation of our lives and an extensive cultural change. The current economic and social paradigm is “faster,…
Political Ecology Network About POLLEN POLLEN is an umbrella organization of political ecology researchers, groups, projects, networks and ‘nodes’ across the globe. As the name suggests, POLLEN seeks to provide a platform for the ‘cross fertilization’ of ideas and where the world’s many rich, diverse traditions can come together, discuss,…
Undisciplined Environments (formerly entitle blog) About the platform We are a collective of scholars and activists oriented towards a common horizon of emancipatory social and ecological transformation. With this platform, we aim to animate a space to share, debate and critically reflect on research and activist experiences, observations, methodologies, news,…
Environmental Justice Atlas @ ICTA What is the research project about? Environmentalism is about Justice. Our economic system produces social and environmental injustices. Too many people, animals and plants are contaminated, displaced and killed. This is often linked to companies that provide our materials, food, water and energy. Communities and…