[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: Post-Everything Worlds: A Pluriversal Webinar - Thursday, May 21, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. California time

[Ashish Kothari]

	Friends, pl. see below and attached for a webinar on Post-Everything 
Worlds: A Pluriversal Webinar, arising out of the book Pluriverse: A 
Post-Development Dictionary.
ashish

	

	

*Thursday, May 21.  Post-Everything Worlds:  A Pluriversal Webinar*

/Thursday, May 21, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. California time,/

Zoom link: _https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/2295905339 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/2295905339&sa=D&ust=1586039086802000&usg=AOvVaw17DsHKuCduplxbpYyVxsdH>_

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_/Please join us for a plunge into the amazing array of alternative 
ideas, practices, and experiments from all over the world!/

This webinar will include some of the folks associated with the 
visionary book /Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary/, and 
scholar-activists who are working on the many worlds that are coming 
forward even as we endure the coronavirus crisis.

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It is co-sponsored by the _University of California, Santa Barbara 
Environmental and Climate Justice Hub 
<http://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/>_<http://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/>, 
the <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/introduction>_Global 
Tapestry of Alternatives 
<https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/introduction>_, and the 
participants in the class, _The World in 2050 2025:  Systemic 
Alternatives 
<https://nxterra.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/topic-systemic-alternatives/>._

*Speakers*

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/Federico Demaria /is a lecturer in ecological economics and political 
ecology at the University of Barcelona; as well as a member of Research 
& Degrowth.  He is a co-author of /The case for degrowth/, and co-editor 
of /Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era/, and /Pluriverse: A 
Post-Development Dictionary/.

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/Ashish Kothari/, Founder-member of Indian environmental group 
Kalpavriksh, taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, 
coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan 
process, served on Greenpeace International and India Boards, helped 
initiate the global ICCA Consortium. Participated in people’s movements 
including Narmada Bachao Andolan; helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam 
(_www.vikalpsangam.org <http://www.vikalpsangam.org>_)  and Global 
Tapestry of Alternatives _(www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org 
<http://www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org>_) processes and Radical 
Ecological Democracy network_(www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org 
<http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org>)_. He has (co)authored or 
(co)edited many books, including /Churning the Earth: Making of Global 
India /(with Aseem Shrivastava) and /Alternative Futures: India 
Unshackled /(ed., with KJ Joy).

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///Susan Paulson/studies and teaches about gender, class, and 
ethnoracial systems interacting with bodies and environments. She has 
researched and taught in Latin America for thirty years, fifteen of 
those living in South America among low-income, low-impact communities. 
Susan currently serves as Professor at the University of Florida, and is 
studying changing masculinities among men who perform painful and 
dangerous labor in extractive industries. Her recent publications 
include _Degrowth: culture, power and change 
<https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/20882>; 
Pluriversal learning: pathways toward a world of many worlds 
<https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/79937>_<https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/79937>; 
and _From pandemic to care-full degrowth 
<https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Paulson-et-al.pdf>._

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*_/Alberto Acosta/es Economista ecuatoriano. Profesor universitario. Fue 
ministro de Energía y Minas, presidente de la Asamblea Constituyente, 
candidato a la Presidencia de la República. Miembro del Grupo de Trabajo 
Alternativas al Desarrollo de la Fundación Rosa Luxemburg. Juez del 
Tribunal Internacional de los Derechos de la Naturaleza: Compañero de 
ruta de movimientos sociales.

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*Giorgos Kallis *is an ecological economist from Greece. He is an ICREA 
Research Professor at ICTA - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he 
teaches political ecology. He is one of the principal advocates of the 
theory of degrowth.**

* Texts for the webinar*

Ashish Kothari, Arturo Escobar, Ariel Salleh, Federico Demaria, Alberto 
Acosta, “Can the coronavirus save the planet?” (March 26, 
2020),<https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/can-coronavirus-save-planet/>_https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/can-coronavirus-save-planet/_

Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgos Kallis 
with Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance, “From pandemic toward care-full 
degrowth” (April 30, 2020), /Interface//: a journal for and about social 
movements/, 
<https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Paulson-et-al.pdf>_https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Paulson-et-al.pdf_

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh,**Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto 
Acosta, co-editors. /Pluriverse:  A Post-Development Dictionary /(New 
York:  Columbia University Press, and Delhi:  Tulika 
Books/AuthorsUpFront, 2019), 
_https://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/pluriverse/_

Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, “The 
case for degrowth in a time of pandemic” (May 14, 2020), 
_https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/case-degrowth-time-pandemic/_


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