A semi-regular column with local newsmagazine Amherst Indy that focuses on local and state efforts. It features original writing, stories from other parts of the world that can inform local happennings, and features the work of students. The column begins from a consideration of the following–How to orient towards and become part of other worlds in the making—worlds in which being human is not measured by our aspirations towards whiteness, individualism, development, and accumulation but towards caring for each other and all beings? How to break open capitalist realism?  A significant, though certainly not sufficient step, is to realize and invest ourselves in ways of being—near and far; in the present and past and future—that are already and always in the making. This includes, as will be the focus of this column, community and municipal projects and movements that are unleashing suppressed and new practices and narratives about being in the world in relational, interdependent ways.

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Fight and Build: Envisioning Solidarity Economies as Transformative Politics (2023)

This essay teases out some of the tensions involved in solidarity economy movement and discourse with the intent of locating a worlding politics. Published in NPQ, the essay is adapted from a more extensive journal article, “Fight and Build: Solidarity economy as ontological politics,” published in 2022 by Sustainability Science, volume 17, pp. 1207-1221. Thanks to Steve Dubb and NPQ for adapting this essay for their readership.

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