38: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari

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Marisol Cortez speaks with Ashish Kothari about radical democracy and alternatives to colonial development paradigms in climate struggles.

Send us Fan Mail Deceleration’s Marisol Cortez speaks with Ashish Kothari on his work with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, recently returned from the People’s Summit and COP30 in Belem, Brazil. An activist and author based in Pune, India, Kothari has been at the forefront of movements both in India and globally to imagine and enact on-the-ground alternatives to “development” as a colonial and often environmentally destructive paradigm. We talk with Kothari about radical democracy as the ...

People in this episode

Host: Marisol Cortez

Guest: Ashish Kothari

Topics covered

• radical democracy
• climate struggles
• development alternatives
• activism
• environmentalism

Keywords

• radical democracy
• climate change
• activism
• development
• environmental justice

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Global Tapestry of Alternatives

Places: Pune, India, Belem, Brazil

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