by dirkholemans | Apr 16, 2023 | News
In 2021, together with Marie-Monique Franssen and Philsan Osman, I wrote the essay in Dutch ‘ Who do we want to take care of? Ecofeminism as a source of inspiration”. The reason was of course the corona crisis, which exposed how little we really care for each...
by dirkholemans | Apr 16, 2023 | Articles
It is an insight we can no longer ignore: the economy cannot keep growing on a finite planet. The illusion of infinite growth disrupted the natural processes that provided a stable living environment, with ever more frequent heat waves, forest fires, hurricanes, and...
by dirkholemans | Apr 20, 2020 | Articles
Governments compete on the global market for medical equipment produced elsewhere. Squeezed public sectors are stretched beyond their limits and the social consequences of shutdowns reverberate across the world. The coronavirus crisis has fundamentally questioned how...
by dirkholemans | Mar 13, 2020 | Articles
Emancipation in the Neoliberal Era: Rethinking Transition with Karl Polanyi The economic historian Karl Polanyi charted the development of market society. Moving beyond a simple opposition between the state and the market, his seminal The Great Transformation...
by dirkholemans | Jan 20, 2020 | Articles
The new role of cities in our society. Almost 75% of Europeans live in cities nowadays. At the same time, cities are becoming a crucial transnational governance level. They are organising themselves in a whole tissue of networks, like Eurocities, Fearless Cities or...
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