by dirkholemans | Aug 5, 2024 | Articles, Books, Uncategorized
This book is a compelling narrative about a world with less inequality and fewer private jets, burn-outs and landfill sites, about a healthy planet with more quality of life, time for each other and sustainable products. In other words, about a good life for everyone...
by dirkholemans | Dec 5, 2018 | Books
A closer look at citizen collectives established in 2015 and 2016 In order to find responses to current societal challenges, citizens increasingly take control, including in the form of citizen collectives that produce goods or services themselves, usually as a quest...
by dirkholemans | Nov 13, 2018 | Books
Housing, food and slow roads as reinvented commons Land has been privatized, parceled and marketed for more than two centuries. And for a while there are timid attempts to stop or reverse that process – think of rent, social housing, nature restoration or urban...
by dirkholemans | Nov 29, 2017 | Books
Context People all over the world are taking their future back into their hands. Together, they are taking initiatives in the fields of renewable energy, local food production, sharing tools, and so forth. This is the most hopeful movement of our time. Where the...
by dirkholemans | Sep 14, 2016 | Books
Samenlevingen veranderen doorheen de tijd. Zo zorgde de welvaartsstaat vanaf de jaren 1950 ervoor dat burgers van toenemende vrijheid genoten, terwijl de overheid voor zekerheid zorgde. Vanaf de jaren 1980 maakte de neoliberale markt van vrijheid en zekerheid dan weer...
by dirkholemans | Aug 23, 2015 | Books
Vlaanderen is ondertussen superdivers geworden. In onze steden – zeker in bepaalde wijken ervan – is er amper nog sprake van een culturele meerderheid. Als leraar, leerling, werkgever, werknemer, buur, buurtwerker, vakbondsmilitant, vrijwilliger,...
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