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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:1, Social Justice
Solid swings but not many ward wins – unpacking the results of the 2024 Brisbane City Council election
Well it’s six days since the council election, and the last few postal votes are being scrutinised closely, with the Greens frustratingly close to winning in a couple of different electorates both in Brissie and elsewhere in South-East Queensland. Across Brisbane’s 26 wards, the Greens primary vote has grown by a very healthy 5.2% on average, to 23%. (There’s a few percentage points difference... Read More
Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Virtual Issue
Feet, bikes, busses and trains, not electric cars
Australia faces massive problems with our transport system. We have some of the most spread-out cities in the world, and huge distances between major population hubs as well. We have in turn become a car-dominated society, with public policy focused heavily on building more and more expensive and complicated road infrastructure – just look at the disaster of the Rozelle... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Social Justice, Theory, Virtual Issue
Crisis, resistance, and the lure of liberal nation-building
Writing together as activist scholars, as people committed to thinking about the practice of collective struggle, we consider Sri Lanka's landscape of state crisis, popular resistance, and liberal reform. [...]
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Sustainable materialism as political action
Are these kinds of movements the solution to all of our troubles? Absolutely not. Do the mainly white western environmental activists doing this work think it’s everything? Of course not. But are sustainable materialist movements politically valuable? Absolutely. For this project I wanted to examine positive everyday practices, possibilities already being lived, grounded imaginaries, visions for a future that are... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Peace, Social Justice, Theory, Virtual Issue
From disruption to destruction
"What is it going to take?" I know your job seems important right now. I know your 'clean record' so you can still fly overseas seems important now (not that it actually stops anyone from travelling, so far). I know that police are scary, the state is scary. I know, I have been arrested 33 times now. [...]
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Social Justice
Talking degrowth in Zagreb
Anitra Nelson, scholar-activist and member of Degrowth Central Victoria, reports on a recent international degrowth conference and an international degrowth network assembly which took place in Zagreb in late August and early September. Zagreb (Croatia) provocatively winks at visitors. A human-scale capital of just one million inhabitants it has grown a museum of broken relationships, a museum of hangovers, a... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Social Justice, Virtual Issue
Visioning futures
If, in the future, we would like to be able to safely house climate refugees in our neighbourhoods, what do we need to be agitating for now? What needs to change in how we understand housing, property, and the right to safe shelter? What do we need to unlearn in settler-colonial entitlement and domination, what racism and xenophobia must we... Read More
Green Agenda 2023:2 - On Living Democracy
On Living Democracy
Our contributions are grounded in and written from within different parts of the left and environmental movement. As a whole the issue brings together diverse perspectives on what’s at stake and how to pursue the politics of living democracy. [...]
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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:2 - On Living Democracy, Social Justice, Theory
Like futurology
There’s something about Tim Hollo’s Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, that feels like that, like futurology. So I want to talk about the end of the world and liberation amid its end and about the kind of ecological politics that may help us get us past it. All this is... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:2 - On Living Democracy, Social Justice, Theory
A New Common Sense
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. Living Democracy presents us with a powerful framework to think about where we have come from, where we want to go, and how to get there. Once we can see and believe, change can happen quite quickly. [...]
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