Common Alternatives

= also called the 'CommonAlts'

URL = http://thecommonalts.com/

Description

"‘Common Alternatives’ comprises of networks of academics, activists, academic-activists, intellectuals, think tanks, initiatives and organizations, policy advocates and university students that through a number of shared projects explore/develop/examine new social concepts, ideologies, practices, policies, programs, experiences and case studies. The projects particularly aim to construct more profound understandings of the root causes of the global crises, and to promote game-changing responses, workable solutions and feasible alternative systems/models/project, as well as strategic actions necessary to realize those alternatives.

Mission

1. Our mission is to help the public, academic and policy circles, and social movements liberate their understandings of self, nature, history, and society from the requisites of Eurocentric, Capital-driven systems of (knowledge) production.

2. We aim to bring together a number of leading inter/national activists, scholars, policy advocates, and research institutes from a broad range of disciplines and ideological backgrounds into a close conversation around multiple alternative modes of livelihood and sociability that function beyond the mainstream free market structure. We hope this will promote cross-fertilization and thereby collaboration among these agents of progressive change.

3. We aim to question our mainstream conceptions of major social issues and myths that have become widely acceptable even among the critics of the establishment. We hope that this would pave the way for the re/invention of alternative concepts that equip our discourses of change."