[PeDAGoG] A new article on REDWeb - "Localization: Bringing about Buen Vivir to address climate fluctuations and globalization"

Mon Aug 22 00:24:52 CEST 2022

Friends,

A new article, "Localization: Bringing about Buen Vivir to address climate
fluctuations and globalization" has been uploaded on REDWeb.

https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/localization-bringing-about-buen-vivir-to-address-climate-fluctuations-and-globalization%EF%BF%BC/

In the last fifty years or so of rampant globalization, the decision making
processes related to all aspects of people’s lives – food, water, shelter,
learning, health, governance – have become restricted to a self-serving
collaboration between corporations and international finance, enabled by
their nexus with governments all over the world, whether they are openly
autocratic or continue to operate under the pretense of democracy. The
results now stare us in our faces – runaway economic inequality and
increasingly frequent environmental crises. Is there a way out of this
quagmire? Christian Stalberg advocates for local control over the means of
production and trade, and self-reliance in meeting basic needs from within
a human-scale local region. Based on a presentation he made at a session at
the World Social Forum earlier this year in Mexico City, Stalberg advances
the Andean idea of “Buen Vivir” centered on “localization”, where our
choices can be informed by their impact on the earth’s ecology as well as
human wellbeing, not just the chimera of convenience and price tag.

Please take a look and join the discussion on REDWeb listserv or the
website discussion forum. The author is copied here in case you would like
to contact him directly.

Best,

Pallav
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