CERN Aotearoa New Zealand
CERN Aotearoa New Zealand meets the last Friday of each month, 1pm to 3pm (NZ time), by Zoom. Members are from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Meetings start with members doing a ‘go round’ to catch up with each other and then there is discussion of a reading. The group uses a shared Google docs to record reactions and thoughts on the readings.
2023 Readings
For the last part of 2023, the group is reading four open-access articles on diverse and community economies:
Christina Jerne, The Diversity of Solidarity Economies: A View from Danish Minority Gangs, click here.
Michael Emru Tadesse and Esra Erdem, Postcapitalist Imaginaries of Finance: A Diverse-Economies Perspective on Equubs within the Ethiopian Diaspora in Germany, click here.
Borja Nogué-Algueró et al, Limits to fishing: the case for collective self-limitation illustrated with an example of small-scale fisheries in Catalonia, click here.
- Gillette et al, Doing conservation differently: Toward a diverse conservations inventory, click here.
For the first eight months of 2023, the group read Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (with a focus on doing the exercises in this book). For more on this reading, click here. The group is running a session on their reading of this book during the online CERN LIVIANA conference. For more on the session, click here.

2022 Readings
In 2022, the group read articles from the 2022 Special Issue of Asia Pacific Viewpoint on ‘Surviving well: From diverse economies to community economies in Asia-Pacific.’ Many of the articles in the Special Issue were written by members of CERN Aotearoa New Zealand. For more on this special issue, click here.