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…
CEI Member Elizabeth (Za) Barron recently convened a two-day workshop “Gender, Rights and Opportunities for Women – through Fungi” in Cotonou, Benin, as part of the Fourth International Congress on Fungal Conservation.
The GROW workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds, including agroecology, conservation biology, midwifery and teaching, and from Sub…
In 2026, the CEI Summer/Winter School is taking a rest. In its place the CEI is running an online workshop, 'The Politics and Practice of Writing for Community Economies.'
**NEWS FLASH**
There is now a waitlist for the June Workshop; places still available in the Nov/Dec Workshop
The writing workshop will run in June 2026 for those in…
Throughout 2025, members of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) have published books on an array of topics. Many of these books are open access.
Congratulations to all.
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The Winter 2025 Special Issue of the Journal of Co-operative Studies explores the theme of worker co-operatives and concern for community, and includes contributions by members of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN).
One of the Guest Editors, CERN Member Eleonore Perrin says “the special issue is inspired by co-operative…
The sixth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) international online conference was held Monday 3 November to Friday 14 November 2025. Most sessions were recorded and are available here. Some recordings are in Spanish.
This was the largest LIVIANA conference to date with 31 sessions ranging from those on social design to…
Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein's recent 2024 book, The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks, is now available as an open access publication from the University of Toronto Press.
The book focuses on the informal co-operative banks and rotating savings and credit associations (…
A new report by Dr Joni Māramatanga Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi | Ngāti Whātua | Te Roroa) from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, and member of the Community Economies Research Network, serves as a bridge between the past and the future by exploring ancestral Māori parenting and contributing to the growing body of work that seeks to reestablish Māori ways of nurturing tamariki (children).
The report,…
What is your life’s work? This is a question that Caroline Shenaz Hossein poses in a recent podcast discussion as she reflects on how her life’s work has been devoted to changing mindsets so that people develop an ethical economic consciousness that is centred on norms and values such as cooperation and communal wellbeing, rather…
“It’s easy to feel despair and desperation at a time where our decision makers continue to prioritise profit over people and planet, but when I see the community led mahi happening in Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui, it restores my faith in people power as a pathway to the future. This book shows that we don’t have to wait for politicians to create the communities we deserve.”
This statement by Tamatha Paul, Member of Parliament for…
This year the Community Economies Institute Summer-Winter School, Researching Postcapitalist Possibilities, runs 10 to 19 June 2025.
Expressions of interest closed on 21 February 2025 but places are still available in the Norway face-to-face node. All other nodes are full (with waitlists for those interested). If you are keen, please email Jenny Cameron, school at communityeconomies dot org.
The…
Community Economies Institute Co-Chair, Professor Emerita Katherine Gibson, presented a seminar on "Postcapitalist Community Economies Here and Now" on 26 February as part of Power Up seminar series at the University of Vermont, Institute for Agroecology. The seminar recording is available online, click here. …
Early registration is now open for the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies Spring School.
The 4-day in-person event will take place from March 25 to March 28, 2025, in Rovereto, (TN), Italy.
The School is based on a two-year Erasmus+ project that is investigating how…
A team of CERN and CEI researchers from Aotearoa New Zealand have been awarded a Marsden Fund grant to investigate collective actions to reduce waste.
Conventional approaches to waste reduction focus on getting individuals to change their attitudes and behaviours, often through actions like recycling.
Instead this…
The fifth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) LIVIANA 2024 International Online Conference was held Monday 4 November to Friday 15 November, with 28 sessions covering topics that ranged from diverse democracies and diverse economies, Indigenous-led co-design, diverse economies in more-than-human worlds, art-based practices, and decolonising…
Congratulations to CERN member Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein for the publication in May 2024 of The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks which, as of January 2026, has been made available as an open access publication by the University of Toronto Press.
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The Department of Decolonial Economics at El Cambalache, based in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, is running two online workshops, September to November 2024 (in English and Spanish).
The first workshop, ‘Liberatory Methods for Investigating and Generating Non-Capitalist / Anti-Colonial Social Power,’…
In a recent blog posting, Markus Sattler, Lilian Pungas and the Polička Collective reflect on their experience of writing collaboratively on the topic of diverse economies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The collective, consisting of ten…
“Listening to and learning from others in the pluriverse” is how Miriam Williams characterises Kelly Dombroski’s recent book Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).
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