–Please circulate–
(1) How Infrastructure is Shaping the World: A Critical Introduction to
Infrastructure Mega-Corridors
by Nicholas Hildyard and Xavier Sol
Today, infrastructure is not just roads, railways and airports, but also
encompasses gigantic “mega-corridors” that attempt to re-engineer whole
landscapes and legal environments to speed up the circulation of
capital. How can these developments best be fought?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/how-infrastructure-shaping-world
(2) Extreme Infrastructure: Infrastructure Corridors in Context
by Nicholas Hildyard
This presentation sketches the drivers behind planned mega-corridors
expected to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people on nearly
every continent.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/extreme-infrastructure-0
(3) Water and the Struggle for Peace and Democracy
by Nicholas Hildyard
This presentation for a Baghdad workshop looks at how pollution and
reduced water flows in the Tigris and Euphrates are triggering conflicts
and how these conflicts are rooted in the denial of democratic
decision-making processes.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/water-and-struggle-peace-and-democracy
(4) Work, Waste and Climate (Trabajo, Desechas y Clima)
by Larry Lohmann
Contemporary discussions about the problem of solid waste focus largely
on landfills while debate about the climate crisis focuses largely on real
or imaginary carbon sinks. Might looking at “waste as work” shift these
discussions in a more constructive direction?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/work-waste-and-climate
(5) Neoliberalism, Law and Nature
by Larry Lohmann
Effective research and other action in the field of environment and law
requires an understanding of how profoundly both have changed under
neoliberalism.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/neoliberalism-law-and-nature
(6) Ecosystem Service Trading
by Larry Lohmann
Markets in ecosystem-service tokens (carbon, biodiversity, water quality)
have evolved as one component of capital’s troubled struggles to
seek new global arrangements following the collapse of compromises into
which it was forced during the 20th century.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/ecosystem-service-trading
(7) Toward a Political Economy of Neoliberal Climate Science
by Larry Lohmann
Mainstream scientific and political work on climate change is organized
around management of carbon dioxide molecules and a binary division
between adaptation and mitigation. This approach has a political history
and needs to be contested by social movements and scientists alike.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/toward-political-economy-neoliberal-climate-science
(8) Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance
by Tamra Gilbertson
Convinced that carbon markets are making climate change worse, many
environmentalists are proposing carbon taxes as a substitute. But carbon
taxes are likewise unable to address global warming’s roots.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/carbon-pricing
(9) What are Rights? Some Lessons from Struggle
by Larry Lohmann
“Rights” continues to be a buzzword in forest and land conservation
among environmentalists, legal activists, corporate consultants,
international institutions and policymakers alike. But the “rights”
discourse can be a source of confusion.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/what-are-rights
(10) What’s Wrong with Rights? A Commentary
by Nicholas Hildyard
To what extent can — or should — social movements rely on the
institutionalisation of rights to address issues of social injustice?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/whats-wrong-rights
(11) Injustice Anywhere Threatens Justice Everywhere
by Nicholas Hildyard
Injustices carried out as part of the “War on Terror” are in many ways
akin to those inflicted on movements opposing fossil fuels.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/injustice-anywhere-threatens-justice-everywhere
(12) Where’s the Revolution in Democratic Confederalism’s “Ecology”?
by Nicholas Hildyard
Today’s Kurdish freedom movement rejects state-based “solutions” to the
social and economic injustices that pervade its territories in favour of
“democratic confederalism”. This involves not only direct grassroots
democracy and a needs-based economy, but also opposition to patriarchy,
class oppression, and the current exploitative relationship between human
and non-human nature. Mainstream environmentalism can learn much from this
approach.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/where%E2%80%99s-revolution-democratic-confederalism%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cecology%E2%80%9D
(13) What are Social Movements?
by Nicholas Hildyard
Understanding the processes through which a shared understanding evolves
of what constitutes a “good society” is key to effective organising for
social change.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/what-are-social-movements
(14) Ecosystem Services and the Law of Value: A Hypothesis
by Larry Lohmann
The rise of ecosystem services presents both the necessity and the
opportunity to rethink issues of capital and nature.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/ecosystem-services-and-law-value
(15) Postcapitalism and Perpetual Motion Machines
by Larry Lohmann
At the same time that business continues to dream of using perpetual
motion machines to get the upper hand over workers, some theorists of
postcapitalism dream of using such machines to destroy capital itself.
What are the problems for both groups in appealing to these impossible
devices?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/postcapitalism-and-perpetual-motion-machines
(16) Loss, Healing and Struggle
by Hendro Sangkoyo
“Don’t mourn, organize!” goes a well-known movement slogan. But what are
the ways in which such an “emptying out of the space of loss” can
undermine political work?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/loss-healing-and-struggle
(17) Why Are You Crying? An Economy for Whom?
by Nicholas Hildyard
Extreme inequality worldwide is no accident. Some of the best hopes for
contesting it lie in supporting, expanding and interweaving the numerous
acts of “commoning” worldwide that daily assert the collective right of
all, not just the few, to survival. One starting point for solidarity is
likely to be the question: “Why are you crying?”
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/why-are-you-crying
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