How can we nourish and sustain communities of hope and action amidst climate and societal breakdown? How can we draw on India's rich history of pluralistic traditions to build interfaith and intergenerational dialogue?
We explored these questions and many more during the Social Well-being and Justice Sangam which took place at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre from January 23rd- 26th, 2025. The four-day sangam brought together participants from all over India to embark on a shared inquiry on social action, spirituality, and justice.
Read the full report here: https://vikalpsangam.org/article/vikalp-sangam-on-social-well-being-and-justice/
Social Well-being and Justice Sangam took place at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre from January 23rd- 26th, 2025. The four-day sangam brought together participants from all over India to embark on a shared inquiry on social action, spirituality, and justice.
vikalpsangam.org/article/vika...
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Necibe Qeredaxi shares the story of Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), who dedicated her life to the Kurdish freedom movement. Her courage, resilience and determination continue to inspire millions.
Read our latest article: radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/i-am-sakine-...
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Necibe Qeredaxi shares the story of Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), who dedicated her life to the Kurdish freedom movement. Her courage, resilience and determination continue to inspire millions.
Read our latest article: radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/i-am-sakine-...
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Vikalp Sangam - Alternatives’ Confluence
The name ‘Vikalp Sangam’ is Hindi for “Alternatives’ Confluence”! As the world hurtles towards greater ecological devastation, inequalities, and social conflicts, the biggest question facing us is…
🍃‘Vikalp Sangam’ (VS) is Hindi for ‘Alternatives Confluence’.
Vikalp Sangam is an evolving process that involves in its core functioning, over 90 movements and organisations in India.
🍃Visit our website to know more: vikalpsangam.org
#VikalpSangam #NationalVikalpSangam
11.02.2025 06:56 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Originally published by the Post Growth Institute, this article by Miho Soon explores alternative ways of relating to money and work, and re-evaluating what constitutes a 'good life'
Read it here: radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/decoupling-t...
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Join us as we explore alternatives to the dominant, ecologically destructive industrial model of fast fashion.
How can we bring about cultural shifts by reimagining beauty as a form of art and fashion as a tool for creative expression and liberation?
Register here: bit.ly/RED-fashion-webinar
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Thank you for this thought-provoking interview, Alexandrina! We deeply admire your commitment to this important and timely research. We are excited to read, support, and amplify more of your work.
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Working class life: Emerging Alternatives in Russia
An interview with sociologist Alexandrina Vanke by Mitja Stefancic Mitja Stefancic interviews Dr. Alexandrina Vanke, author of The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia, about the motivation …
An interview with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ is out in Radical Ecological Democracy. It seems that my two topics of workers’ life and everyday ecologies conjoined. @manchesterup.bsky.social Read it here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
13.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Dr. Vanke shares the motivation behind writing this book, why the concept of ‘class’ is understood differently in Russia, and forms of everyday #resistance to neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.
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14.01.2025 04:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In our latest article, Mitja Stefancic interviews Dr. Alexandrina Vanke, author of The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia (2024), about her decade-long research on the lives of working-class people in post-industrial Russia.
Read: radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/working-clas...
14.01.2025 04:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Political-economist eyes on more humane economies & how they might just be built.
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Climate journalist, Carbon Brief. Interested in energy, climate, land, food, politics, rights, critters, culture. Recovering Twitter junkie. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.
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Passionate about equitable #postgrowth futures beyond capitalism; and matching offers and needs. Co-founder and Director of Strategy at the Post Growth Institute. He/him. Views are mine.
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Across India, grassroots groups & social movements are building a just world where rights of people and nature are respected. Join the movement! 🐛🦋🌍
Lecturer in Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki (PhD in IR), following global inequalities, peace & development, displacement, forced migration, activism, social movements, post/decolonial & feminist theory.
Exploring this new space now.
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Sociologist, senior researcher, gardener 🌹🌿| Author of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ (ManchesterUP, 2024) https://t.ly/2VHg1 | Social theory, ethnography, class, inequality, urban space, deindustrialization, everyday environmentalism
Writer, Researcher, Activist (Post-development, alternatives, governance, rights of nature ) and my head is a veritable cauldron
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
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Prof at Cambridge.
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Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
