Earthy Governance: How to Learn About Democracy From Indigenous Peoples? [REDWeb}

[Pooja Kishinani]

Dear All, 

Our latest article on REDWeb may be of interest-

Earthy Governance: How to Learn About Democracy From Indigenous Peoples? by Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari 

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.

Read it here- https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/earthy-governance-how-to-learn-about-democracy-from-indigenous-peoples/ 

Note: This article was originally published by Berliner Gazette on 17 June 2026.

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In solidarity, 

pooja 

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curator, Radical Ecological Democracy