Earthy Governance: How to Learn about Democracy from Indigenous Peoples?

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Jun 25, 2026, 12:03:20 PM (10 days ago) Jun 25

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Friends, this article published in Berliner Gazette, may be of interest. In English and German.

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Earthy Governance: How to Learn about Democracy from Indigenous Peoples?

In light of the planetary polycrisis, it is time to challenge the dominant strand of Western thought that asserts only humans possess rights and that other species exist solely for human benefit. In their contribution to the “Deep Democracy” series, Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari propose an Earth-centered form of governance. This form of democratic self-organization is based on the idea that all species and nature as a whole have rights to be respected and be able to thrive. Read the article here.

English: https://berlinergazette.de/earthy-governance-how-to-learn-about-democracy-from-indigenous-peoples/