#Liviana2025 - Session 5.1

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Session 5.1

Solidarity Economies Navigating Diverse Pathways to Transformation in Authoritarian Times

7th November (Friday)
2 hours
New York 18:00 (6th November)Buenos Aires 20:00 (6th November)Amsterdam 00:00 (7th November)Nairobi 02:00 (7th November)Bangkok 06:00 (7th November)Warrane-Sydney 10:00 (7th November)Aotearoa-NZ 12:00 (7th November)
Organiser: Stephen Healy

AbstractThis session will bring together authors from the diverse economies liveable worlds book series who have published on cooperative and solidarity economies, as well as other CERN members researching on the topic. CERN members who have written on the topic include Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Craig Borowiak, Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Andrew Zitcer, Penn Loh, Boone Shear, Lauren Hudson, Caroline Woolard, Amy Cohen, Ethan Miller, Anna Heras, Peter North, Priscilla Ferreira (and others... apologies if I left anyone out). The format will involve sharing insights from our own work as well as connections we have made at a time when solidarity seems to be widely understood as an important response to authoritarianism. Solidarity economies seem to have garnered considerable attention in international governance while also taking on more radical forms in the form of a politics of mutual aid, and have been enrolled in the struggle against new forms of totalitarianism. What can diverse economies scholarship add here? What are the connections and points of difference?The discussion will be oriented around the article by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor that appeared in The Guardian earlier this year on fascism in the end times. That piece provides the context for thinking about "transformational" as opposed to "reactionary" forms of solidarity:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-muskOur hope is twofold: first, to give those working in this space—including the authors of Solidarity Cities—time to share a few reflections on their book, and second, to invite them to respond to the position articulated by Astor and Klein in the Guardian article.

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