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Scientific paper • 2012

Grabbing of natural resources and environmental justice: breaking the circle

By: Annalisa Stagni, Mani Tese

Abstract: The consumption pattern in the north requires an intensive exploitation of natural resources in the south of the world, making some countries totally depending from the sale of their natural resources. The global north needs to stop consumption without limits of our environment and people must be aware that these limits exist, due to the finiteness of our world. Our lifestyles have a...

Scientific paper • 2012

From economism to autonomy: a value reading of the "Greek crisis"

By: Panos Petridis

Abstract: The density of events over the last years, together with the continuous scaremongering from the dominant political and media circles, has put the Greek society into an informal “economic state of exception”. Austerity measures and neoliberal policies such as large scale privatisations, under the name of “reform” or “modernisation” are presented as a painful but necessary evil and a...

Position paper • 2011

Small is beautiful: Renewable energy supply in rural communities

By: Conrad Kunze

Position paper by Conrad Kunze for the workshop "Small is beautiful: Renewable energy supply in rural communities" at the attac-congress "Jenseits des Wachstums?!" 2011 in Berlin. From the program: The production of renewable energy makes it possible to create full spectrum supply on a smaller scale. This also makes it possible to break free from the existing chain of fossil energy sources...

Misc • 2011

Re:organisieren

By: Rainer Rilling, Bernd Riexinger, Horst Kahrs, Christina Kaindl, Mimmo Porcar, Tasos Koronakis, David Cohen, Peter Martin, Marlene Streeruwitz, Jeffrey Raffo, Corinna Trogisch, Ibrahima Thiam, Amacodou Diouf, Malte Daniljuk, Nik Theodore, Ai-Jen Poo, Judith Butler, Richard D. Wolff, Jan Rehmann, Ethan Young, Ingar Solty

Zeitschrift «Luxemburg» 04/2011 Niemand kann mehr sagen, dass sich kein Widerstand gegen die herrschende Krisenpolitik regt. Seit Anfang des Jahres sind »plötzlich« neue Kämpfe entstanden (vgl. Luxemburg 2/2011). Nicht einzuordnen in die üblichen Kategorien der politischen Wahrnehmung, getragen von »ganz normalen Leuten«, scheinen sie unorganisiert. Vergangene Bewegungen und ihre Erfahrungen...

Misc • 2011

Grüner Kapitalismus? - Klimawandel, globale Staatenkonkurrenz und die Verhinderung der Energiewende

By: Jonas Rest

Der Übergang zu einem grünen Kapitalismus wird von transnationalen Konzernen ebenso gefordert wie von den Regierungen führender Staaten. Dennoch scheitern die internationalen Klimakonferenzen und die CO2-Emissionen steigen weiter an. Eine Klimakatastrophe, die das Leben von Millionen Menschen bedroht, wird immer wahrscheinlicher. Die These dieses Buches: Ohne die Entmachtung der fossilen...

Interview • 2010

Inside Job

By: Charles Ferguson

Documentary about the financial crash in the US in 2008. Interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists.

Presentation • 2010

Degrowth and inequality: the link between ecological and social crisis

By: Hervé Kempf

Keynote by Hervé Kempf at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "The degrowth proposal: what is it about, how do we achieve it?" Introduction French writer and journalist, H. Kempf is the author of How the rich are destroying the earth (2007), and of Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme...

Misc • 2009

Die Macht der Bedürfnisse

By: Marianne Gronemeyer

Überfluss und Knappheit Der Verlag: Wer sich mit den menschlichen Bedürfnissen beschäftigt, sieht sich in lauter Widersprüche verwickelt: Wir glauben, die Welt werde nach unseren Bedürfnissen eingerichtet, tatsächlich richten sich unsere Bedürfnisse nach der Welt. Wir sind überzeugt, dass wir Macht über unsere Bedürfnisse haben, in Wahrheit sind die Bedürfnisse das Einfallstor der Macht, die...

Report • 2008

Let's make MONEY

By: Erwin Wagenhofer

Austrian Documentary about the global financial system, about the logic of money and it's consequences. Dokumentation aus Österreich über das globale Finanzsystem, über die Logik des Geldes und Auswirkungen dieser Logik.

Report • 2003

THE CORPORATION

By: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan

thecorporation.com: Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the...

Scientific paper • 2001

Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-governmentality and other Transnational Practices of a 'Green' World Bank

By: Michael Goldman

Abstract: This article contends that the debates on the effects of "globalization" on states and state power could be enhanced by focusing on new global regulatory regimes for the environment, especially those that have recently been designed and operationalized by the World Bank in its borrowing countries. The article concentrates on both the changing structural relations within and among...

Misc • 2000

Gouvernementalität der Gegenwart - Studien zur Ökonomisierung des Sozialen

By: Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann, Thomas Lemke

Im angelsächsischen Raum hat sich eine Forschungsrichtung etabliert, die Foucaults Machtanalytik produktiv aufgenommen und weiterentwickelt hat: die governmentality studies. Der vorliegende Band knüpft an jene Forschungen an und erschließt das von Foucault entwickelte Instrumentarium für eine Analyse aktueller gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. Gemeinsamer Bezugspunkt der exemplarischen Studien ist...

Misc • (no release date)

Walking for Peace as Wars Rage On

By: Áine Donnellan

Walk Peace EU's marches for justice gather people together to walk across country borders and connect. This invitation to 'walk the talk' prompts us to question whether we live what we preach, then act on the insights gained during the walk.