The keynote speakers for the seventh Community Economies Research Network (CERN) international LIVIANA online conference (Monday 2 to Friday 13 November) have been announced.
The first keynote "The transformative potential of Indigenous economic practices" will be presented on Monday 2 November by Matthew Scobie (Kāi Tahu), Georgia McLellan (Whakatōhea & Ngāi Te Rangi) and Jack Barrett (Ngāpuhi).
The second keynote "…
The first CEI Online Writing Workshop, The Politics and Practice of Writing for Community Economies, has just wrapped up.
The workshop was run over three weeks in June, with three 3-hour sessions each week.
There were eleven participants from Australia, Brazil, Europe and the UK, India, the Philippines and South Korea. Most were working on publications based on recently-completed PhDs, though several brought practitioner-oriented…
The Inception Workshop of the new Sago+ project was held on 13 May 2026 at the Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Research Institute Conference Centre in Port Moresby. This was followed by the Inaugural Project Advisory Group Meeting.
The Inception Workshop brought together 30 participants, including members of the Sago+ project team…
Community Economies researchers have been providing insights into debates about policy initiatives that can contribute to economic and social wellbeing, and help people to live decent lives.
Australia is one of only a few high-income countries that does not provide free school lunches and there is a push to change this. Community Economies Institute member, Miriam Williams has provided…
A recent 2025 issue of Rethinking Marxism featured a symposium discussing The Handbook of Diverse Economies, edited by Community Economies Institute members J. K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski (Elgar, 2020).
The symposium brings together four review essays on the Handbook, each offering a distinct perspective on the book, followed by a response by Dombroski and Gibson-Graham.
There is also an…
The Embodiment Lab, rooted in critical human geography, is grounded in embodiment, belonging, mentorship, care, and temporal dynamics to challenge norms in the neoliberal university. We argue that the Lab serves as a counter-practice within the academy by prioritizing our individual and collective well-being over productivity metrics. Weekly practices cultivate radical vulnerability, creating a foundation for a caring environment. Delving
Climate change puts an inequitable and heavy burden on people who are forced to adapt to unjust socioenvironmental conditions created by the legacy of ongoing climate coloniality and historical settler and imperial colonialism. However, universalizing climate adaptation discourses fail to conceptualize these historical processes by framing climate change as external to complex social and human systems.
This piece is an edited transcript of a conversation on decolonizing Geography that took place between Lindsay Naylor and Tariq Jazeel in February 2024 in response to the ACME 20+ year anniversary celebrations. As decolonial theory and efforts around decolonizing geography continue to gain momentum, this conversation – between two differently located geographers – reflects on the trajectories, geographies, meanings and (institutional)
Within and outside geography there is a strong interest in the inequities between states and peoples. While work in political geography, particularly in critical and feminist geopolitics, deconstructs discourse and peoples narratives as we seek to understand and represent these inequities, in many cases scholarship remains embedded in western ways of knowing and understanding the world (see: Sharp 2013a,b). Additionally, even as we
Ethical commodity networks have been advanced as a means to promote cooperative development, engender more democratic forms of governance, promote environmental conservation, and redistribute a greater share of returns to farmers and workers. This essay draws upon long-term ethnographic research on the role of solidarity within two Mesoamerican coffee-producing cooperatives to understand the effects of certification regimes that undergird
