Issue 20: Positivity and Violence
Editorial: Positivity and Structural Violence It is generally easy to take sides, or sometimes take action, when we see direct physical violence being perpetrated. We see […]
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Consumerism Inflicts Structural Violence
Billions of people suffer from the rich world’s overfed appetite. Consumerism violates human rights and ravages the environment. The interests of a consumer society are […]
Thich Nhat Hanh: Only love can save us from climate change
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world’s leading spiritual teachers, is a man at great peace even as he predicts the possible collapse […]
Gandhian Ecology
To comprehend the ecological dimensions of Gandhian thinking and practice, we shall have to go well beyond the ordinary implications conveyed by the categories of […]
Violence and our Environment
Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis and a participant in the ecosocialist coalition System Change Not Climate Change, examines […]
Environmental Values, Policy and Conflict in India
Shiv Visvanathan argues that the very language of modernity does injustice to traditional knowledge; it is a modernity that does not value the multiplicity of […]
The TAO of Toolbox
To follow is an excerpt from Occupy this Book: Mickey Z. on Activism One “debate” that never seems to end centers around the vague concept […]
Materialism and Misery
Unequal societies have higher degrees of distrust, alienation and division, says Graham Peebles London: We live under the omnipresent shadow of a political/economic system, which promotes […]