Ep 2 - In Our Time: From Southern Neoliberalism to Cooperative Futures by Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell - a podcast by Common Alternatives

 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 distinctive, but in many ways reflect the wider story of Australian settler colonialism and postcolonial development. Reflecting on my own attempt to define a socialist agenda about forty years ago, I argue that systems models of power, and global-North models of transition, are not helpful. In thinking forward now, we need to reckon with a changed and increasingly unstable global economy, new organizations of gendered power, new strategies of profit and subordination, and the new authoritarian politics of fear. We also need to consider the resources currently to be found within Australian and regional society for democratic and co-operative futures. These can be seen in social movements in the public sphere, as we all recognize, but also in such practices as education, knowledge-making, and the continuous creation of domestic life. Our difficulty is not so much in imagining futures, but in imagining them simultaneously at world and local levels.  Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita at University of Sydney and Life Member of the National Tertiary Education Union.  Her books include Southern Theory, Gender: In World Perspective, Masculinities, and Making the Difference. Her new book, The Good University, will be published early in 2019.  Raewyn has worked for labour, peace and women’s movements, and for democracy in education. Website www.raewynconnell.net, Twitter @raewynconnell. 

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 Alternative Futures and Regional Prospects Symposium Working across Differences, beyond Carbon, Capital and Commodity  Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd of November 2018 Organizers: The University of Newcastle Alternative Futures Network, Common Alternatives Network (http://thecommonalts.com/); hosted by The University of Technology Sydney 

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