Meridian - #14- Collective Dreaming for a world in crisis: New visions for a sustainable future in India – with Ashish Kothari cover art

Meridian - #14- Collective Dreaming for a world in crisis: New visions for a sustainable future in India – with Ashish Kothari

Meridian - #14- Collective Dreaming for a world in crisis: New visions for a sustainable future in India – with Ashish Kothari

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 People feel increasingly overwhelmed and helpless in the face of the many political, economic, social and environmental crises the world is currently facing, from global warming, pollution and loss of biodiversity to war, authoritarianism, landgrabbing, inequality, and deprivation. Visions and pathways out of the crises are required, but cannot lie in the same paradigms of patriarchy, capitalism and racism that created them. The globally dominant idea that economic growth results in well-being of human beings has failed, argues the environmentalist Ashish Kothari. But what are alternative ideas to ensure economic and socio-cultural well-being in line with nature? What can individuals and local communities do to address global challenges, through radical democracy and local ecological and economic security? Which role does the environmental movement play in India and where are differences to the German movement? What can the ‘Global North’ learn from the ‘Global South’?

In this Meridian episode, Kevin Caners discusses with Ashish Kothari new theories and practices in India and the ‘Global South’ for a sustainable future. Kothari presents recent developments in local communities and how they successfully managed to improve living conditions with nature and not against it.

Ashish Kothari is founder-member of Kalpavriksh and taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration. He coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan, served on boards of Greenpeace International & India, ICCA Consortium as well as judge on the International Tribunal on Rights of Nature. He helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) process in India, and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives. He is co-author/co-editor of Churning the Earth, Alternative Futures, and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. In 2023, he was a Mercator Fellow at Kassel University, Germany.

Ashish Kothari, Indian environmentalist, Kalpavriksh, Pune/India and co2libri Fellow at the Berlin University Alliance
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