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Ep 19 - Smart Cities of More-Than-Human Futures by Prof. Marcus Foth from 2020-03-11T09:25:31

Professor Marcus Foth - from Queensland University of Technology - Hosted by Listen

Ep 18 - Alternative commons - Ownership and Governance of platform cooperatives - Prof. Morgan & Dr. McNeill from 2020-01-09T06:30:18

Professor Bronwen Morgan (UNSW Law) and Dr. Joanne McNeill (UWS) discuss the insights gained by thinking about the ownership and governance of platform cooperatives across a range of sectors thr...

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Ep 17 - Alternative Commons - Social Care Services Cooperatives - Robyn Kaczmarek from 2020-01-09T06:14:10

Robyn Kaczmarek (Founder and Managing Director, The Co-operative Life), tells her story about how Australia’s first worker-owned cooperative delivers quality social care services and offers care...

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Ep 16 - Alternative Commons: Housing Cooperatives- Dr Louise Crabtree from 2020-01-09T05:52

Dr Louise Crabtree (and James Brown) discuss how co-operative housing is demonstrating how to break away from developer-led models of housing to focus on people and community. Several case studi...

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Ep 15 - Alternative Commons: Case Stuides of Energy Cooperatives in NSW- Australia - Dr. Jarra Hicks from 2020-01-09T05:39:02

Dr. Jarra Hicks (Co-Founder and Director of Community Power Agency) will discuss the work of the Community Power Agency is helping to support and build the capacity of community energy co-operat...

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Ep 14 - Alternative Commons: Co-operative solutions - Introduction by. Ann Apps from 2020-01-09T05:28:18

This panel brought together a group of people who have experience in designing, analyzing and implementing co-operative solutions to our most pressing everyday needs – work, energy, housing and ...

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Ep 13 - Community Economy: Experiences, Potentials and Challenges - Dr Stephen Healy from 2020-01-09T05:18:01

The Community Economies Research Network (CERN) is an international network of 200 scholars, activists, and artists working in locations throughout the world to enact a post-capitalist politics ...

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Ep 12 - Feminised Resistances and a Politics in/of the Feminine - A/Prof. Sara C. Motta from 2020-01-09T05:03:03

As Marxist feminist political economists demonstrate reproductive labour is a key, oft, invisibilised feminised place, of value production (Federici 2004). As decolonial feminists demonstrate th...

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Ep 11 - Gendered Footprints in the Green Economy - Associate Professor Ariel Salleh from 2020-01-09T04:45

In a time of ecological breakdown on a planetary scale, governments, business and United Nations agencies advance the Green Economy idea and Sustainable Development Goals as panacea. These progr...

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Ep 10 - The Nature and Future of Capital and Its Alternatives in 21st Century from 2019-12-20T03:43:20

By Dr S A Hamed Hosseini at the International Sociological Association World Congress, in Toronto 2018.

Monday, 16 July 2018: 11:30

Location: 713B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)

Or...

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Ep 9 - Taming the Beast: A Challenging New Initiative - Mr Michael Johnston from 2019-11-28T08:28:12

The systematic degradation of the commons must be contained and reversed if future generations are to survive and prosper. The air we breathe, the temperature in which we live and extreme weathe...

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Ep 8 - Implementing a New Human Settlement Theory - Mr Steven Liaros from 2019-11-28T08:18:50

Whilst the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables offers significant environmental benefits, the other transition—from a centralized to a distributed energy system—underpins a disrupt...

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Ep 7 - Reconciling Social and Regional Policy - Professor Watts - Dr James Juniper from 2019-11-28T08:06:20

Reconciling Social and Regional Policy with the Macroeconomic Constraints  Professor Martin Watts and Dr. James Juniper (University of Newcastle, Australia)  This Conference is focused...

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Ep 6 - Toward Democratic Eco-Socialism in Australia - Associate Professor Hans A. Baer from 2019-11-28T07:52:24

I offer a vision of a socially just and environmentally sustainable Australia that draws on the concept of democratic eco-socialism, a term which I along with Merrill Singer and Ida Susser coine...

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Ep 5 - Ecotopianism and the Future of Labour in 21st Century - Professor Emerita Verity Burgmann from 2019-11-28T07:36:15

The potential role of organized workers in combatting environmental problems and global warming is rarely discussed in academic considerations of these problems. For example, Ulrich Beck on The ...

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Ep 4 - From Commoning the Alternatives to Commonism as an Alternative - Dr. S A Hamed Hosseini from 2019-07-29T10:45:34

 Knowledges of the inner nature, deep structures and conflictual dynamism of capitalism potentially constitute a transformative cognitive Commons. Likewise, to achieve an inclusive understa...

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Ep 3 - Building an Earth Centred Future from 2019-07-28T09:52:22

 Building an Earth Centred Future: Culture, Ethics, Law, Economy  Dr. Michelle Maloney  

Australia faces a deeply challenging governance and leadership crisis, as many nati...

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Ep 2 - In Our Time: From Southern Neoliberalism to Cooperative Futures by Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell from 2019-07-28T08:14:16

 In Our Time: From Southern Neoliberalism to Cooperative Futures  Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell   The Hunter region has been through a sequence of changes that are distinc...

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Ep 1 - "Subverting the Corporate Form" by Dr. Jim Stanford from 2019-07-28T07:32:45

 Subverting the Corporate Form  by Jim Stanford for 2018 Alternative Futures Symposium UON   Alternative Futures and Regional Prospects Symposium Working across Differences, ...

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