Collaborations & Projects

The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) is a process, initiated in 2019, that seeks to create solidarity networks and strategic alliances among all these existing and emerging alternatives at the local, regional, and global levels. It focuses on connecting and fostering interactions, learning experiences, and collaborations among alternatives. It operates through varied and lightweight structures, defined in each space, that are horizontal, democratic, inclusive, and distributed, using diverse local languages and multiple forms of communication. The initiative has no central structure or control mechanisms, but instead aspires to function in a horizontal, democratic, and reality-based manner. It is important to note that the GTA is grounded in the concepts and practices of indigenous peoples and other local communities and collectives.

This initiative was born from a group of people and organizations from different Latin American countries. We are driven by the urgency to build social dynamics capable of responding to and countering the dynamics of capitalist rearrangement, wealth concentration, and ecosystem destruction that we see emerging in the midst of the civilizatory crisis, and of collectively shaping, together with all who wish to join, a collective horizon of transformation for our America that guarantees a dignified future.

The Observatory of Sacrifice Zones in Mexico is a collective project led by the organization Conexiones Climáticas and supported by a series of collectives, movements, and civil society organizations in Mexico. The observatory has the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico.

The project seeks not only to expand the collection of definitions of what we call “alternatives” but to cultivate what Gustavo Esteva described as a “dialogue of livings.” Rather than privileging the abstract “logos” that often dominates the dialogue of knowledges, this is a dialogue rooted in practices of everyday resistance, conviviality, and care.

Humo. Señales para otros mundos posibles is a podcast of conversations between Pablo Montaño, Yásnaya Aguilar, and Carlos Tornel with various guests that seeks to reflect on the clear failure of the international community, states, and corporations to respond to the climate crisis, pointing to the fact that, as warming is a symptom of the collapse of capitalist modernity (capitalism aided by a colonial and patriarchal enterprise), alternatives toward a less heated future will only be viable from other worlds beyond capitalism.

This group aims to engage with the ideas in Gustavo Esteva’s work by drawing connections with the specific projects and regions with which he collaborated and which he inspired throughout his life. We seek to foster a deep and practical understanding of his theoretical and practical contributions through dialogue and a critical reading of his work.

Rupture Press is a collective effort that provides not-for-profit, open access, affordable paperbacks for critical academic works. We are seeking to support academic books making ruptures with the existing system of extractivism, exploitation and socioecological catastrophe. This press seeks to create an outlet for academics who want to depart from corporate publishing, working towards an anti-paywall, not-for-profit model that makes work open access and affordable.

We are a collective of scholars and activists oriented towards a common horizon of emancipatory social and ecological transformation. With this platform, we aim to animate a space to share, debate and critically reflect on research and activist experiences, observations, methodologies, news, events, publications, art, music and other themes and objects related to political ecology.

FOGATA, a collective self-education initiative aimed at rekindling critical and shared thinking, seeks to be a meeting place that brings together individuals, organisations and communities interested in the collective creation of critical knowledge. As a commitment to lifelong learning, it stems from a desire to create a space for militant research and open, non-academic, self-directed debate, guided by a non-patriarchal, ecological, critical and self-managed perspective. As a project sustained and coordinated through a network of individuals and collectives that make up Volcana Lugar Común, it seeks to foster relevant discussions on current issues, with a particular focus on Mexico and Latin America.