Recommended Readings

Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible
Author: International Forum on Globalization
Publisher: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc, 2002

The Bioregional Economy: Land, Life and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: Scott-Cato, Molly
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Author: Flaccavento, Anthony – Foreword by Bill McKibben
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016

Green Alternatives to Globalization
Authors: Woodin, Michael and Lucas, Caroline
Publisher: Pluto Press, 2004

Happier People, Healthier Planet
Authors: Belton, Teresa
Publisher: Silverwood Books, 2014

Home Economics
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: North Point Press, 1987

Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
Author: Shuman, Michael
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2000

Local is Our Future
Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helena
Publisher: Local Futures, 2019

Localism in the Mass Age
Authors: Mitchell, Mark T. and Peters, Jason
Publisher: Front Porch Republic Books, 2018

The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift
Authors: Young De, Raymond and Princen, Thomas
2019

Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Author: Schumacher, E.F.
Publisher: New York: Harper and Row, and London: Blond and Briggs Ltd, 1973

Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter
Authors: Robinson, Jennifer, M. and Farmer, James.R.
2017

Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economics for Security in an Unstable World
Author: Douthwaite, Richard.J.
1998

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2nd edition)
Author: Shuman, Michael
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007

The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy
Authors: Bennholdt-Thomsen Veronica & Mies Maria
Publisher: Zed Books, 1999

Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever
Author: Alexander, Samuel
Publisher: Simplicity Institute Publishing, 2015

Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities
Authors: Gibson-Graham, J.K. Cameron, Jenny. Healy, Stephen
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (1st edition)
Author: Hopkins, Rob
Publisher: Green Books, 2008

True Wealth
Author: Schor, Juliet
Publisher: Penguin, 2011

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005

What matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (first edition)
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: Counterpoint, 2011

Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
Author: Teachout, Zephyr
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers, 2020

Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance and Alternatives
Author: Hart-Landsberg, Martin
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2013

The Case Against the Global Economy: and For a Turn Toward the Local
Author: Mander, Jerry, and Edward Goldsmith (eds.)
Publisher: San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Author: Hickel, Jason
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2018

Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision and Human Scale
Author: Sale, Kirkpatrick
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2000

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (1st edition)
Author: Shiva, Vandana
Publisher: South End Press, 2005

Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century
Author: Petras, James and Veltmeyer, Herman
Publisher: Zed Books, 2001

Farewell to Growth
Author: Latouche, Serge
Publisher: Polity Press, 2009

Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives
Authors: Dunkley, Graham
Publisher: Zed Books, 2004

The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization
Authors: Ellwood, Wayne
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications, 2011

They Rule: the 1% vs. Democracy
Author: Street, Paul
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers, 2014

There is an Alternative
Author: Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika, Faraclas, Nicholas and Von Werlhof, Claudia
Publisher: Spinifex Press, 2001

In the Wake of the Affluent Society
Author: Latouche, Serge
Publisher: Zed Books, 1993

When Corporations Rule the World
Author: Korten, David
Publisher: West Hartford, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 1995

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
(main edition)
Author: Zuboff, Shoshana
Publisher: Profile Books, 2019

Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability
Author: Deb, Debal
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

The Breakdown of Nations and the Overdeveloped Nations (new edition)
Author: Kohr, Leopold
Publisher: Green Books, 2001

Carbon Metrics, Global abstractions and ecological epistemicide
Authors: Moreno, Camila and Speich Chassé, Daniel and Fuhr, Lili.
Volume 42 of the Publication Series Ecology. Edited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
2015

Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India
Authors: Kothari, Ashish and Srivastava, Aseem
Publisher: Viking India, 2012

Climate: A New Story
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2018

Consuming Cultures: Globalization and Local Lives
Author: Seabrook, Jeremy
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd, 2004

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
Author: Pascoe, Bruce
Publisher: Magabala Books, 2018

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era
Author: D’Alisa, Giacomo, Demaria, Federica and Kallis, Giorgos
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
Author: Sachs, Wolfgang (ed.)
Publisher: London and New Jersey. Zed Books, 1992

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Author: Escobar, Arturo
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2011

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Author: Heinberg, Richard
Publisher: Clairview Books, 2011

Exploring Degrowth:
A Critical Guide
Author: Liegey, Vincent. Nelson, Anitra
Publisher: Pluto Press, 2020

The Good Life Beyond Growth
Author: Hartmut Rosa (ed.)
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Author: Polanyi, Karl
Publisher: Beacon Press, 2002

Happier People Healthier Planet: how putting wellbeing first would help sustain life on earth
Author: Belton, Teresa
Publisher: Silver Wood Books Ltd, 2014

The Inner Level: Howe More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing
Author: Pickett, Kate and Wilkinson, Richard
Publisher: Allan Lane, 2018

Less Is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness
Author: Andrews, Cecile and Urbanska, Wanda
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2009

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Author: Hickel, Jason
Publisher: Penguin, 2020

Local Dollars,  Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity
Author: Shuman, Michael H.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

Myth of the Machine
Vol 1 & 2
Author: Mumford, Lewis
Publisher: Mariner Books, 1971

The New Peasantries: Rural Development in Times of Globalization
Author: Van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development
Author: Sachs, Wolfgang, 2015

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
Author: Kothari, Ashish et al
Publisher: AuthorsUpFront, 2019

The Post-Development Reader
Author: Rahnema, Majid (ed.)
Publisher: London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1997

Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (reprint edition)
Author: Jackson, Tim
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Author: Stoll, Steven
Publisher: Hill & Wang, 2017

Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel: The Paving of Paradise and What You Can Do to Stop It
Author: McLaren, Deborah
Publisher: West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1998

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: Evolver Editions, 2011

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
Author: Yunkaporta, Tyson
Publisher: Harper One, 2020

Seeing Like a State
Author: Scott. James, C.
Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999

Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
Author: Andrews, Cecile
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2006

Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We have so Little Left
Author: Taylor, Mark C.
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Stone Age Economics
Author: Sahlins, Marshall
Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 1974

Tools for Conviviality, and Deschooling Society
Author: Illich, Ivan
Publisher: Marion Boyars, 2001

The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (new edition)
Author: Winner, Langdon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Victims of Progress (5th edition)
Author: Bodley, John H.
Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2008

Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Author: Galeano, Eduardo
Publisher: St. Martins’s Press, 2001

Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal
Author: Magdoff, Fred and Tokar, Brian
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2010

Agroecology: Science and Policy
Author: Rosset, Peter and Altieri Miguel
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing, 2017

Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness
Authors: Norberg-Hodge, Helena. Merrified, Todd. Gorelick, Steven
Publisher: Zed Books (UK) and Kumarian Press (USA), 2002

Climate: A New Story
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2018

Eating Tomorrow:
Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food

Author: Wise, A. Wise
Publisher: Small Planet Institute, 2019

The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community and the Land
Author: Wirzba, Norman
Publisher: Counterpoint Press, 2004

The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Author: Kimbrell, Andrew (ed)
Publisher: Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2002

Farming While Black
Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Author: Penniman, Leah
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018

Food
Author: Clapp, Jennifer
2020

Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community
Authors: Desmarais, Annette. Wittman, Hannah, Kay. Wiebe, Nettie
Publisher: Food First Books, 2010

Food Town USA
Author: Winne, Mark. 2019.
Publisher: Island Press, 2019
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Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity
Author: Pimbert, P. Michel
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Formerly Known as Food
Author: Lawless, Kristen
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, 2018

From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helena. Goering, Peter. Page, John
Publisher: Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture & Zed Books, 2000

The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming
Author: Weis, Tony
Publisher: Zed Books, 2007

Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America
Author: Gayeton, Douglas
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014

The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture and the Community of Life
Authors: Freyfogle, Eric
Publisher: Island Press, 2001

A Small Farm Future
Authors: Smaje, Chris
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020

Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter
Author: Robinson, Jennifer, Meta and Farmer, James, Robert
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2017

Tending the Earth: Traditional, Sustainable Agriculture in India
Author: Pereira, Winin
Publisher: Bombay. Earthcare Books, 1993

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: San Francisco. Sierra Club Books, 1977

We Feed the World:
A Celebration of Smallholder Farmers and Fishing Communities
Author: The Gaia Foundation, Foreword by Shiva, Vandana
Publisher: The Gaia Foundation, 2020

The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Author: Courtwright, David
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2019

Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture, and The Overworked American, and The Overspent American (reprint edition)
Author: Schor, Juliet B.
Publisher: Scribner, 2005

Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Author: Ewen, S.
Publisher: Basic Books, 2001

Confronting Consumption
Editor: Princen, Thomas
Publisher: MIT Press, 2002

The High Price of Materialism
Author: Kasser, Tim
Publisher: MIT Press, 2002

Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World
Author: Kasser, Tim and Kanner, Allen
Publisher: APA Books, 2004

Craeft: an Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
Author: Langlands, Alexander
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture and Story
Author: Nabhan, Gary, Paul
Publisher: Counterpoint, 1998

Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect
Author: Orr, David, Washington, D.C. and Covelo, California
Publisher: Island Press, 1994

Hind Swaraj and other writings
Author: Gandhi, Mohandas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition, 1997

Humankind
Author: Bergman, Rutger
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2020

A Language Older Than Words
Author: Jensen, Derrick
Publisher: New York: Context Books, 2000

Last Child in the Woods
Author: Louv, Richard
Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2008

Lost Connections
Author: Hari, Johann
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2018

The Practice of the Wild
Author: Snyder, Gary
Publisher: Counterpoint, 2010

Seeds of Peace
Author: Sivaraksa, Sulak
Publisher: Parallax Press, 1992

The Snow Leopard
Author: Matthiessen, Peter
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1978

Team Human (1st edition)
Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Walden: Or, Life in the Woods New Edition
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 1995

Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helena
Publisher: Local Futures, 1991 (updated in 2016)

Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia (2nd edition)
Author: Rizvi, Janet
Publisher: Delhi: Oxford India Press, 1998

Trekking in Ladakh (3rd edition)
Author: Loram, Charlie
Publisher: India Trekking Guides, a Trailblazer publication, 2004