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Reimagining Society
Content on theory, vision, & strategy for reimagining society. This includes content about grassroots activism and alternative ideas and thinking that understand that our current institutions are no longer fit-for-purpose and that propose and/or demonstrate by real examples better institutions and ways of living.
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that technological progress and economic growth would solve the problem of material scarcity. In…
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Defining displacement Gentrification is commonly understood as…
How much joy is in your life these days? How much play in your resistance to all the fear, repression, violence, burnout,…
The issue is survival We are in for a long hard time in the U.S. and the world as a whole. The…
Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an evocative description of life under a new social order. “It’s a sunny Friday morning in 2045,…
Never before have the two Israeli communities between which I divide most of my time, the academic and the activist, been so…
Redlining, exclusionary zoning, and predatory lending schemes have put prospective Black homeowners at a severe disadvantage. As the Ballard Center for Social…
Outside the Khirki branch of Delhi’s Community Library Project, a signboard details the day’s programs, including scheduled story times and art activities.…
Etaf Rum’s story begins in the 1990s in the hilly countryside of Birzeit – flocked by olive trees and mulberry bushes, the…
Societies around the globe face multiple crises. In this context, is marshaling hope and dreaming up beautiful futures—imagining a world that could…
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