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Alternatives to Globalisation Forums: Localisation |
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Alternatives to Globalisation Forums
The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice's forms often cover what is wrong with the current corporate-centric globalisation we are currently experiencing, but what are the alternatives to this? In or first series of forums for 2008 we explore a range of alternatives to economic globalisation.
Do we need to localise and turn to a slower, less transport intensive society where all our sources of food and fuel come from the local area? Does the answer lie in a single moral community? Or does it lie in a multitude of singularities all networked and interlinked with peers interacting to create an information-based society on all levels from the individual to the global?
Forum 1: Localisation
Speaker: Gilbert Rochecouste (Village Well - http://www.villagewell.org/)
With people feeling increasingly disconnected from their communities and climate changed caused in no small part by our transport needs, localisation provides an attractive alternative to 'economic globalisation'. It is a move to greater social, cultural and ecological diversity – a world that is locally self-sufficient and not based on a competitive consumerist society. Can a cooperative, mutually beneficial world work? How will it work? Can it really provide us with the cultural and spiritual improvements it promises as well as feed the nation?
When: Tue 15th April, 7pm.
Where: Horse Bazaar (http://www.horsebazaar.com.au/), 397 Little Lonsdale Street
Cost: Gold coin donation (free for ACDJ members)
Contact: centre@democracyandjustice.org
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