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…
In this chapter, I explore the following questions:
• How can design strategically strengthen non-capitalist and postcapitalist economies and increase the social power of those sustaining them?
• What role does aesthetics plays in shifting power towards postcapitalist modes of life?
• How can it more effectively contribute to make postcapitalist modes of life both widely desirable and translocally regenerative?
This
A conversation between Bianca Elzenbaumer and David Bollier, exploring how the design work produced by Brave New Alps does not aim for market development and conventional investment, but for participatory vehicles that honor social imagination, improvisation, and collective impact.
In this paper, we explore instances of grassroots infrastructuring in support of communal learning projects that centre caring food practices. We explore these instances of infrastructuring from a practitioner perspective, i.e. from the perspective of people who are closely involved in these efforts as part of the community academy La Foresta, based in the Italian Alps.
Transdisciplinary collaboration is well-established in sustainability science scholarship. Stakeholders from the cultural and artistic sector can significantly enrich the co-creation process by providing diverse perspectives on caring for people and places in marginalized areas. A key challenge is engaging these stakeholders early in the co-design phase to foster a sense of co-ownership and shared responsibility. To date, artists and cultural
In this text I share some key working principles and community projects that under-pin how I contribute to the collective regenerative work underway in the Italian Lagarina valley.
I introduce the working principles of “commons” and “community economies” that permeate my work, subsequently explaining how these principles manifest themselves as theory-practice relays (aka practical projects in a close and creative conversation with
