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- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
Documents > Dynamics of change and Prospective < Volver
March 03 2012
Life beyond Growth
After thousands of years of steadily increasing growth, it seems
possible that the human species is realizing that it will soon ...
By Institute for Studies in Happiness Economy and Society
February 03 2012
Socioeconomic Democracy and Sustainable
Development
Socioeconomic Democracy is a theoretically consistent and
practically implementable socioeconomic system wherein there ...
By Center for the Study of Democratic Societies ◾ Robley E. George
February 02 2012
A new historical period?
It is impossible to draw one single strategy for the planet and it
is useless to attempt to establish universal tactics. Although ...
By Edgardo Lander
January 22 2012
From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan
Order
Who gets what, when and why are no longer questions confined to
state silos, democratic or otherwise? Who makes the rules ...
By David Held ◾ Social Europe Journal
January 19 2012
Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and
the green economy in Africa
As Africa faces up to the enormous challenge of climate change and
the creation of a sustainable ‘green economy’, it must look ...
By Pambazuka News ◾ Third World Network-Africa ◾ Yash Tandon
January 13 2012
The Ethics of Sustainability
Sustainability yet remains inherently difficult to implement because
of its complexity and due to the enormous shifts in thinking that ...
By Anna Peterson ◾ Charles J. Kibert ◾ Leslie Thiele ◾ Martha Monroe
January 10 2012
Switching paradigms: the only way forward
The current crisis of the international system as a whole opens up
the possibility of rethinking the relationship between state ...
By Alejandro Chanona ◾ Social Watch
January 06 2012
The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice
Movement
We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, keeping the
eyes on the end goal – a different kind of world-system, far ...
By Immanuel Wallerstein
January 02 2012
The Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability
We have examined our scenarios in great quantitative detail to the
year 2100 for eleven world regions. The summary presented ...
By Christi Electris ◾ Paul Raskin ◾ Richard Rosen ◾ Tellus Institute
December 14 2011
Governance of international trade for the green
economy
Today’s trade system may be incapable of steering the world into a
“green economy.” It is, however, a wisely constructed ...
By International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development ◾ Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz