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Locking Down Leviathan

The streets of Jayanagar, a residential area in Bengaluru, are strewn with spring flowers. Yellow copper pods, lilac crape myrtles, pink-and-white honges and orange gulmohurs blaze overhead and underfoot; vitality and senescence mirroring each other. The normally hard surfaces – […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Environment, Health, Inequality Tagged With: civilization, community, culture, health, indigenous, well-being

Post-pandemic development: a Ladakhi perspective

A week before the announcement of the Janata [public] Curfew slated for March 22, 2020, I spoke with a 43-year-old close relative in her village in Leh, Ladakh, by phone from Delhi. Around that time, the news of rising infections […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Development, Education, Food and Farming, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, culture, farming, global food, indigenous, local food, localization, well-being

We will survive the Coronavirus. Will we survive ourselves?

What an astonishing slap in humanity’s face, this coronavirus. But the silver lining is that it is also a rude wake up call. I say ‘silver lining’, for at the centre of this is a massive humanitarian crisis of illnesses […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Democracy, Environment, Health, Indigenous worldview, Inequality, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, democracy, globalization, health, indigenous

Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been “liberalized” – opened up […]

Filed Under: Community, Development, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Indigenous worldview, Localization, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, community, corporations, development, farming, globalization, health, indigenous, local food, trade agreements

Old Mother Forest

I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy that’s baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years I’ve been here. The forest sustains. As do you […]

Filed Under: Environment, Indigenous worldview, Inner transformation Tagged With: climate change, culture, health, indigenous, technology

Reading Tagore to Become Human

In 1922, Rabindranath Tagore published one of his most important works, the play Mukta-Dhara. The story, rich in symbolism, is a simple yet powerful one. A child of mysterious birth is found abandoned by a mountain waterfall. He is adopted […]

Filed Under: Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Indigenous worldview, Inner transformation, Technology Tagged With: climate change, community, consumerism, corporations, democracy, development, freedom, happiness, indigenous

Mending a History of Discrimination through “Person-to-Person Reparations”

Although systemic economic forces make it difficult for anyone to survive as a farmer — and even harder to acquire enough land to start a farm — institutional racism and other forms of discrimination have made it all but impossible for people of color. […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, indigenous, livelihoods, local food, localization

Farewell to Development: An interview with Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar is co-editor of The Post-Development Dictionary and author of Design for the Pluriverse. He was interviewed by Allen White, Senior Fellow at the Tellus Institute, sponsor of the Great Transition Initiative, where a slightly longer version of this […]

Filed Under: Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: community, consumerism, degrowth, democracy, development, economic growth, economics, indigenous, localization

Will the Poor Always Be With Us?

It’s a familiar story. On his final journey toward Jerusalem, Jesus stops in Bethany to eat at the home of Simon, a leper. A woman enters with an alabaster jar of expensive ointment; she breaks the jar and pours the […]

Filed Under: Community, Livelihoods and jobs, New economy Tagged With: community, consumerism, development, economics, happiness, indigenous, new economy, systems thinking

Adivasi Economics and Re-awakening the Indigenous Mind

When the East India Company set up in India, the commodities they originally traded included hundreds of unique artifacts made in India, including textiles whose quality has never been surpassed. As the EIC set up a subsidiary called the Government […]

Filed Under: Indigenous worldview Tagged With: Adivasi, colonialism, community, development, happiness, india, indigenous, tribal communities

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