Two really amazing opportunities to become #AtlanticFellows close soon. Both are global and are open to people without formal educational qualifications.
Please share widely.
1. Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (closing 11 January 2024): https://afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/apply
2. Atlantic Fellows for #RacialEquity (closing 29 January 2024): https://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/join-the-fellowship
New year, new me, new server. Introduction to come. For now, an invite:
"In a world on fire—facing threats to multiracial democracy, tensions from rising #economicinequality, and even the existential threat of #climatechange—can we build an alternative economics based on #cooperation?"
Manuel Pastor, director of the USC's Equity Research Institute, says yes. On 23 January, he'll deliver the annual keynote lecture of the #AtlanticFellows at #LSE. I serve as discussant.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/01/202401231830/solidarity
The dominant Europe-centred paradigm in #CooperativeEconomics means the field is working with an incomplete, therefore inadequate, record of the rich diversity of ways people have understood and practised cooperation as an economic strategy. For instance, the #AfricanPhilosophy of #Ubuntu imparts a model in which cooperation is a perpetually sought ideal state and seeking it creates cooperative economic relations.
Read more in my blog from the #AtlanticFellows at LSE: https://afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/blogs/how-piecing-together-an-ubu-ntu-cooperative-model-made-me-want-to-write-again
A friend whom I hadn’t seen in a while asked recently why I stopped writing. “It’s like you were everywhere one day,” he said, “and then you suddenly stopped and were gone the next.” He was referring to my writing on economic and social disparities in post-apartheid South Africa. I was once prolific, writing weekly columns in national newspapers and a monthly column for the international edition of The New York Times. But I quit all of it all at once in 2016 because it felt pointless. Writing felt pointless—a manifestation in me of alienation under capitalism.
T. O.
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