This year we’ve formed a #repair_studies group at UNSW, supported by UNSW Allens Hub for technology, law and innovation, Environment and Society Group @UNSW, School of Humanities & Languages UNSW Law & Justice | Dr Kayleen Manwaring Bronwen Morgan @paulgmunro Roberta Pala & @shanilsam | Some thoughts on the #righttorepair 1/6

Wonderful to hear you are running for this important post Melina Morrison and will look forward to following and supporting #Coop #CooperativeAction #Global

This is quite a story of creative compliance that thoroughly undermines the spirit of the right to repair: this is what happens when the power disparities between consumers and producers are already far too wide #righttorepair, #reuse, #DIY, #technology, theverge.com/2022/5/21/2307…

Gregory Patmore, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney explores the value of the co-operative business model and the need for better co-operative education in our business schools in The Conversation. "This neglect is costing us all."

The launch issue of this exciting new journal is out today - read it online and join the conversation at the launch on 23 June - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journ… Global Social Challenges Journal

Encouraging to see economic democracy gaining ever wider footholds in different countries

So pleased to have this out along with terrific companion pieces in this stimulating special issue of Urban Studies Journal

Heard this delivered at Law and Society conference _ an important paper on municipal legality Amelia Thorpe Bronwen Morgan out now journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

This group is really enriching debates around the #righttorepair, connecting its more technical dimensions to issues of community, democracy and systemic perspectives on economic change

An insightful analysis by Katharina Burger and @ProfMartinP on how one of the UK's pioneer SDG implementing cities has thereby added value to its actions: Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals as a boundary object in the City of Bristol bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journ…

Combining #openaccess scholarship with explorations of #climatejustice is integral to the overall ethos of the @GSC journal's approach, challenging both the form and substance of business-as-usual

This feels like tectonic plates shifting in economic development assumptions towards #Regeneration - fantastic to see committed institutional support for rethinking #growth and opening up #degrowth and #postgrowth debates to wider audiences Erin Remblance Oliver Kunz

It's thanks to colleagues such as Peer Zumbansen and Matt Canfield that dialogues such as those we hope this article will spark seem possible -

A balanced treatment of the degrowth debate in CNN Business - interesting times! Good to see a recognition that "advocates...make clear they aren’t promoting austerity, or telling developing countries ... that they shouldn’t reap the benefits of economic development".

An engaging reflection on varieties of community and freedom in the context of Twitter and its antecedents. arena.org.au/the-technoking…

Great to see the #SSE social and solidarity economy becoming increasingly prominent in United Nations discussions - it's such an important pathway for #SDG ambition

Three new vibrant research articles in Global Social Challenges Journal out now, exploring coloniality in research funding, smallholder farmer perspectives on nature-positive policies, and the vital role of social Infastructure in austerity urbanism - enjoy! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journ…

If this isn’t an example of a broken system eating it’s own tail I’m not sure what is…

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Not That Smart by Victor Saad victorsaad.com/not-that-smart/