Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
Exploring Alternatives Interactive Flowchart
Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.
Maldhari Knowledge Keeping Chotila’s Grassland Mosaic Alive
Pastoralists stitch together access to gauchars, vidis and forest lands. They pay where they must, negotiate where rules are unclear, and absorb the cost when grazing lands degrade or disappear.
On The Cardamom Trail: The Invisible Women Behind A Premium Spice Trade
Men dominate the cardamom trade that is worth crores but it is women’s labour and agricultural knowledge that holds up the industry.
South Asia’s Climate Governance needs a Bioregional Reset
Bioregionalism stems from a simple premise that ecological systems and political borders rarely coincide, and governance works better when it reflects the landscapes and communities that hold a region together.
Women-led pond restorations challenge the Ken-Betwa Link Project as an answer to Bundelkhand’s water woes
Jal Sahelis reviving local water management are challenging the Ken-Betwa Link Project’s controversial vision of development and water security in Bundelkhand.
That kind of kind: Reflections on Jantar Mantar
The sit-in was like a prolonged chess game, where one player sacrifices a pawn to save the king, and to diffuse the pressure from one part of the board move to another. It worked, at least for the moment.
When Rabha Women Came Together To Reclaim Lost Lands
Women from Rabha tribe in Andu Basti forest village of West Bengal are preserving their community practices by running learning centres, rejuvenating unused common land, and taking pioneering decision-making in cropping
AVOIDING THE FATAL TEMPTATIONS OF A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST
One basic problem of revolutionary movements has been the lack of ‘prefiguration’, or advance visioning of what kind of society we want after our objectives have been fulfilled.
वैश्वीकरण का संकट और विकल्प की खोज- In Hindi
मानव इतिहास में आमूल-चूल व्यवस्थागत परिवर्तन हुए हैं—उदाहरण के लिए, सैकड़ों वर्षों के राजाओं के शासन का अंत, औपनिवेशिक साम्राज्यों का पतन, नारीवादी विचारों और प्रथाओं का उदय, या प्रकृति की आवाज़ों को समाहित करने वाले स्वदेशी और सामुदायिक विचारों का पुनरुद्धार