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Confronting global crises of inequality, unsustainability, confilct, and alienation, in the midst of COVID19, requires listening to voices of movements across world ... including those led by women and with a feminist orientation. Both resistance and construction of alternatives are being demonstrated, and lessons from them point to the need for ecoswaraj, a radical ecological democracy based on radical politics, economic democracy, social justice, cultural diversity, and ecological resilience.
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Introduction
Willie Nelson net worth is a testament to his enduring influence and success in many fields. Born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson's journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of the most iconic figures in American music is nothing short of inspirational. His net worth, which estimated to be around $25 million as of 2024. reflects a career that is as diverse as it is prolific.
Early Life and Musical Beginnings
Humble Origins
Willie Hugh Nelson was born during the Great Depression. a time of significant economic hardship in the United States. Raised by his grandparents. Nelson found solace and inspiration in music from an early age. His grandmother taught him to play the guitar. setting the stage for what would become an illustrious career.
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Eco-swaraj: Can environment and human well-being go together?
1. Eco-swaraj:
Can Environment and Human
Well-being Go Together?
Lessons from Environmental and Social
Movements
Ashish Kothari
Kalpavriksh / Vikalp Sangam / Global
Tapestry of Alternatives
6. A bit of development &
environment history…
Colonial period: take-over of common lands (forests,
waterbodies …)
Post-Independence, 1950s-60s: big infrastructure/industry
thrust; Green Revolution in agr
1970s-80s: Environmental movements, laws, policies
1990s-onwards: Neo-liberal, privatized, globalized economic
growth
8. ‘Development’
• Development = opening up of
opportunities: intellectual,
cultural, material, social
vs
• ‘Development’ = material
growth (through industrial and
financial expansion)
– measured in % economic
growth, per capita income,
etc
9. Dominant vision of ‘development’
Violence against nature,
communities, and cultures …
growth as cancer
10. Growth-based ‘development’ is inherently
unsustainable
• Several planetary
boundaries already crossed
• We are already at
1.5XEarth
• Runaway climate change is
at our doorstep
Rockstrom et al 2009
11. Current context:
Destruction of India’s environment,
livelihoods, communities
– 50% forest destroyed in last 200 years
– 70% waterbodies polluted or drained out
– 40% mangroves destroyed
– Many of the world’s most polluted areas
– 10% (?) wildlife threatened with extinction
– Displacement, loss of livelihoods, impoverishment of
several hundred million ecosystem-dependent people
(NBSAP Final Report, 2004)
Smitu Kothari
12. 1% richest own 70% wealth!!!!
Growing inequities,
deprivation
60 million people displaced
by ‘development’ projects
14. … to livelihoods as jobs, divorced from rest of life:
Violence against each of us: our identity, our health, our well-being!
Livelihoods to Deadlihoods
Illustrator unknown
15. Shrinking democracy
Govt/corporate attack on dissenting
civil society: ‘anti-development’, ‘anti-
national’, ‘terrorist’, ‘sedition’
2021: targeting of youth environment /
labour activists in India
16.
17. COVID (and
related global
crises):
an excuse for more
authoritarianism, profit-
making, unsustainability
or
opportunity for systemic
transformation towards
justice, equity,
sustainability?
18. Are there alternatives to destructive
development? How can environment
and human well-being go together?
19. ALTERNATIVES TO WHAT?
Bandaid solutions?
Technofixes, market mechanisms, green growth,
geoengineering, net-zero … ‘sustainable development’
20. Alternatives to what?
Structural roots of unsustainability & inequity
Concentration of power
Capitalism / class
State-dominated regimes
Patriarchy
Caste / race / ethnicity
Anthropocentrism / speciesism
….
21. Doublespeak:
Self-reliance (atmanirbharbharat) and ‘Net-zero by
2070’ (PM Modi at Glasgow COP26)
Really?!?!?!
Coal mining; contract farming; mega-solar/wind parks;
‘ease of doing business’ for big corporations
22. So, what are real alternatives?
Ploori-verse, by Ashish Kothari
23. • People’s movements against dams, mining,
pollution, over-fishing, SEZs…. India’s most
powerful environmental movements
Resistance to destructive
development…
Protest against dams on
Indravati, 1980s
27. Alternative initiatives for well-being
Water
Crafts
Shelter
Food
Energy
Governance
Livelihoods
Conservation
Village
revitalisation
Urban sustainability
Learning
Health
Producer
companies
Inclusion
Sexuality
Gender
28. •Empowering dalit women farmers, through collectives
•Securing women’s land rights
•Reviving traditional agricultural diversity / practices (millets)
•Creating community grain banks
Deccan Development Society, India:
conservation, equity, food sovereignty, livelihood
security
33. Maha Gram Sabha,
Gadchiroli (Mah)
• Stop mining!
• Federation of 90 villages
• Aims: sustainable
livelihoods, forest rights &
conservation, local
governance built on
traditions of decision-making,
women’s empowerment,
cultural identity
36. Livelihood revival with hybrid
knowledge: crafts / handloom
“The loom is my
computer”: Prakash
Vankar, Bhujodi village
Sheetal Hiteshbhai,
Siracha village
38. ‘’Homes in the City’, Bhuj (Kachchh, Gujarat)
•self-reliance in water (India’s lowest rainfall)
•solid waste management and sanitation
•re-commoning of spaces
•livelihoods, dignified housing for the poor
(Hunnarshala, Sahjeevan, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, ACT, Setu)
Right to a Sustainable City
41. Technology by/for/with/of people
Technological innovations to reduce ecological impact,
governed democratically
(malkha cotton weaving, AP; Hunnarshala housing,
Kachchh; Solar passive architecture, Ladakh; open source
software)
42. Alternative Media, Communications, Arts
Freedom from govt & corporate control:
•Community radio (>150); FM?
•Mobile-based (CGNetSwara, Chhattisgarh)
•Movement newsletters, folk theatre
•Film/video (Video Volunteers)
•Internet (Scroll, Wire, Infochange, India Together …)
•‘Social’ networks … virtual communities
Pic: Puroshottam Thakur
43. Progressive government
responses …
• Laws/policies:
– 73/74 Constitutional amendments for self-governance
– Right to Information Act
– Rural Employment Guarantee Act
– Forest Rights Act
• Programmes:
– Organic farming in 16 states: Sikkim 100% by 2015,
Andhra ‘natural farming’, Ladakh by 2025
– Renewable energy
– Kudumbashree women’s livelihoods, Kerala
44. Commons
Solidarity
economy
Degrowth
Buen vivir / sumaq
kawsay / kametsu
asaike
Ubuntu / ukama /
unhu
Ecofeminism
Agroecology /
permaculture
Biocivilisation
Ecosocialism
Zapatista
Kurdish Rojava
Kyosei
Country
Transition
Nayakrishi
Agaciro
GNH Agdal
Swaraj
ICCAs
Food / energy
sovereignty
Worker-owned
production
Climate justice
Constructive alternatives across the
world
45. Kurdish Rojava women’s movement
Autonomy, democratic confederalism, ecofeminist
principles in midst of war zone
Hevjiyana azad (living together in freedom)
Jineoloji (science of woman & life)
Images: courtesy Kurdish
Women’s Movement
46. Solidarity economy, alternative currencies, open
software: options for urban youth
Beki local currency, Biekerech,
Luxembourg
Time-banking at
neighbourhood school,
Athens, Greece
Pagkaki coop café, Athens
In India:
• Open software / ethical hacking
• Alternative media
• Transformatory arts (e.g.
‘Justice Rocks’
• Millet/organic food restaurants
• Non-profit shops
47. Ecological
resilience &
wisdom
(rights of nature, conservation)
Radical democracy
(direct citizens’ power, accountable
representative institutions, ecoregional
governance, borderless world)
Economic democracy
(producer sovereignty, localised self-
reliance, caring/sharing, commons)
Social justice &
wellbeing
(justice, equity of genders, ethnicities,
Culture &
knowledge diversity
(new learning, knowledge commons,
celebrating creativity, cultural co-
existence, spiritual deepening)
Flower of transformation:
5 spheres of systemic alternatives
VALUES
48. RADICAL POLITICS, ECONOMICS &
JUSTICE
Direct/radical democracy : decisions in hands of
people everywhere (“in our village, we are the
government”): people’s assemblies, referendums
Localisation & democratisation of economy, self-
reliance, caring & sharing, commons, worker-owned
production, qualitative indicators of well-being beyond
growth and GDP
Social justice and well-being: struggles for human
rights - gender equality, castelessness, anti-racism, etc
Cultural / knowledge diversity: decolonial approaches,
commons ; public control over technology/media
49. • Recognising humans as
part of nature
• Respecting rest of nature
(ethical / spiritual / rights)
• Conservation, sustainable
use
RENEWED RELATIONSHIP WITH/IN NATURE
Poorva Goel
50. • Diversity and pluralism (of ideas, knowledge, ecologies, economies,
ideologies, polities, cultures…)
• Self-reliance for basic needs (swavalamban)
• Self-governance / autonomy (swashasan / swaraj)
• Cooperation, solidarity, commons (including knowledge!)
• Rights with responsibilities of meaningful participation
• Dignity & creativity of labour (shram)
• Qualitative pursuit of happiness
• Equity / justice / inclusion (sarvodaya)
• Simplicity / sufficiency / enoughness (aparigraha)
• Rights of nature / respect for all life forms
• Non-violence, peace, harmony (ahimsa)
• Interconnectedness / reciprocity
• Fun!
WORLDVIEWS THAT CELEBRATE LIFE!
Values & principles of
transformative alternatives ….
51. Eco-swaraj:
Radical ecological democracy
(Radical = going to the roots, challenging the conventional)
• achieving human well-being, through:
– empowering all citizens & communities to participate in
decision-making
– ensuring socio-economic equity & justice
– respecting the limits of the earth
Community (at various levels) as basic unit of organisation,
not state or private corporation
52. Swaraj
• Sangharsh (resistance) to nirman
(reconstruction)
• Individual / collective autonomy,
responsible to others’ autonomy
• Personal = political
• Politics & spirituality integrally linked for
power to be emancipatory
53. Pre/Post-development worldviews from
elsewhere … a pluriverse
• Indigenous peoples’ territorial struggles and notions of well-
being
– buen vivir: sumak kawsay (Andes), suma qamana (Bolivia), kume
mongen (Chile), kamatse asaike (Peru)
– ubuntu (S. Africa), umuntu (Uganda), ukama (Zimbabwe), eti
uwem (W. Africa)
– kyosei (Japan), sentipensar, minobattsiiwiin (native American)
– jineoloji / hevjiyan azad (Kurdish)
• Roots & radical re-interpretations of major religions
• Degrowth, Commons, Solidarity economy, Biocivilisation,
Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism …
54. Issues for dialogue….
Who will catalyse the transformation: Mass movements? NGOs?
Worker unions? Political parties?
Would there be a state? Its form and role?
What would be the nature of global governance? (Not the UN!)
Would there be a private business sector?
How to rethink academics / ‘disciplines’, epistemologies?
55. How to make macro-change
happen?
• Resistance /subversion
(sangharsh/satyagraha) + construction
/ reconstruction (nirman/swaraj)
• Transition + transformation
• Outscaling, not upscaling
• Visions of the future, building on
ancient worldviews
58. Vikalp Sangams
(regional)
Andhra Pradesh: Oct 2014
Tamil Nadu: Feb 2015
Ladakh: July 2015, Sept 2021
Maharashtra: October 2015
Kachchh: July 2016
W. Himalaya: Aug 2016
Kerala: April 2017
Madhya Pradesh: Sept 2017
West Himalaya: Nov. 2018, Oct
2021
(thematic)
Energy democracy: March 2016
Food sovereignty: 2016 & 2017
Youth: 2017-2022
National: Nov 2017
Peace in conflict areas: June 2018
Health: June 2018
Well-being: 2019-2022
Democracy/swaraj, Oct 2019
Economies, Jan 2020
Worldviews, Nov 2022
62. Confluences of resistance and
alternatives across the world
Sharing/exchanges/collaborations
Collective visioning of a just world …
and how to get there!
Global Tapestry of
Alternatives
https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org
63.
64. Radical alternative practices & worldviews
across world - 100 essays
Alternative visioning & case studies from India:
political, social, cultural, economic, ecological
65. UTOPIA?
Eduardo Galeano, quoting Fernando Birri:
"Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer;
it moves two steps further away.
I walk another ten steps, and utopia runs ten steps
further away.
As much as I may walk, I never reach it.
So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: it
makes us continually advance.”