This article provides a quality check of the degrowth movement's proposal of local
currencies as tools for advancing socially equitable and ecologically sustainable degrowth …

In the UK the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms
to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric of 'localism'. Conventional …

This paper challenges “Big Society (BS) Localism”, seeing it as an example of impoverished
localist thinking which neglects social justice considerations. We do this through a critical …

We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean
to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali …

There has been much debate about the impact of recession and austerity on the voluntary
and community sector over recent years. Using secondary data from the 2008 National …

This paper explores the equity implications of a transition to a decentralised energy system
in the UK. We base our analysis on one of three idealised transition pathways developed by …

Emergency planning often includes assumptions about crowd behaviour. These
assumptions matter, as they can operate as rationales for emergency management …

Self-organisation is an idea whose time has come. As an explanatory concept, self-
organisation is central to complexity theory, which is quickly becoming a powerful and …

In many European countries, the third sector is considered an actor able to improve both the
efficiency and the efficacy of public healthcare systems afflicted by the crisis of the welfare …

Theorizing embeddedness requires sensitivity to the dynamic and multi-layered contexts of
entrepreneurship. Social or network embeddedness influences how social and for-profit …