The Global Tapestry of Alternatives: Stories of Resilience, Existence, and Re-Existence By Shrishtee Bajpai, Post Growth Institute Jan 28,2022 https://medium.com/postgrowth/the-global-tapestry-of-alternatives-stories-of-resilience-existence-and-re-existence-2f1db96ed852
Celebrating and learning from approaches that effectively counter systemic problems highlighted by the pandemic.
GTA attempts to foster a dialogical space to show that there are alternative ways of being, knowing, working, dreaming, and of doing things — that the modern capitalist or nation-state dominated system is not the only system around. Along with processes of resistance, across the world there are tens of thousands of attempts to construct alternative realities
GTA has organized over 22 sessions ranging from the responses to Covid by indigenous communities in Peru, Mexico, India, and Bolivia, to the responses of women in Rojava to Black Lives Matter and eco-socialist organizing for radical transformations. Sessions have also included dialogues on techology and alternatives, economies of wellbeing, a commons future, the degrowth movement, alternative models by women farmers, feminist realities and alternatives, artistic resistance in Palestine, the Karen community’s alternatives to state authoritarianism in Myanmar, mining and alternatives by women in Africa, among many others.
Miriam Lang & Ashish Kothari - Alternative Approaches to Crises Resilience, 6 Dec. 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7XzEAvAw5A
Prof. Amirante & Dr Viola - Constitutionalisation of the Environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yQy7xXyrnU Nov 28, 2021 A Practice in Search of a Theory: From the Constitutionalisation of the Environment to Environmental Constitutionalism,
Dr Purabi Bose, Forest Land Diversion for Mining and Indigenous Tribes in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk1tTZPi_j8 Landing Together.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CjZr5S9c04 Forest Rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9DeJeLwGhY Kabza (meaning “capture”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk1tTZPi_j8 Forest Land Diversion for Mining and Indigenous Tribes in India
Dr. Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli - "An Inclusive Energy Transition?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JuepIsVNw Mar 2, 2018 An Inclusive Energy Transition? The Role of Public Participation in International Energy Governance
Sam Adelman - Geoengineering: Risks, Rights and Ethics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7wj4VCh3s4 Feb 18, 2018 Pressure to engineer the Earth’s climate will increase unless greenhouse gas emissions are substantially reduced in the near future. However, manipulating the Earth’s climate may provoke unforeseen, unintended and uncontrollable consequences that threaten human rights. Such risks arise especially from solar radiation management (SRM) techniques and, to a lesser extent, from carbon dioxide removal (CDR). SRM creates particular risks because it is difficult to test on a wide scale and may not be capable of being recalled after deployment.
Dr Tarun Chhabra - Learning From The Todas in the Midst of Global Environmental Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTaqfJz2rjE
Dr Nthabiseng Mohlakoana & Peta Wolpe - Just Energy Transition (Energy Access and Energy Poverty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bsebnnftXA
Dr Dayna Nadine Scott, Jurisdiction Back: Impact Assessment in the South of the North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fHfHcGlHU