Ashish Kothari
Biographic Data
| ID | 135048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashish Kothari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashish |
| FAMILY NAME | Kothari |
| SIGNATURE | KOTHARI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kalpavriksh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8764-8533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toward a More Globally Attuned Degrowth: Linking Non-Growth Approaches to Direct Democracy and Ecological Sustainability Across Global Divides
This article contributes to the ongoing efforts to develop a more globally attuned degrowth perspective by placing it in dialogue with post-development scholarship. Together, these two critical frameworks challenge dominant growth-oriented paradigms in distinct geopolitical and epistemological contexts. While degrowth, rooted in the Global North, critiques capitalist expansion and advocates for democratically led downscaling, post-development eme…
Flower of Transformation: A Reflexive Method for Change in Alternative Organizing
The Flower of Transformation is a community-based tool originating from grassroots alternative organizing in India. This article discusses the potential of the Flower as an innovative co-creative research method, reflecting on its emancipatory potential on the ground as well as its decolonial, reflexive possibilities for researchers. Drawing on literature on participatory, co-creative, and decolonial research methods and the original goals of the…
Autonomy and pluriversal energy futures in Ladakh, India
In Ladakh, a trans-Himalayan region of India, two drastically opposite visions of energy transition are colliding head-on. The first is a grassroots, indigenous approach that emphasises on low-impact and socioecologically just energy practices, meant primarily for local consumption. The other is a government and corporate driven, technocratic vision pushing for large-scale energy infrastructure and critical mineral mining, to supply energy to hig…
Sanctioning Disciplined Grabs (SDGs): From SDGs as Green Anti-Politics Machine to Radical Alternatives
From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…
Gouvernance et gestion des aires protégées
Le livre “Gouvernance et gestion des aires protégées” est une compilation de textes originaux, d'études de cas et d'exemples du monde entier. Il s’appuie sur une vaste littérature et sur les connaissances et l'expérience de nombreux acteurs des aires protégées. Ces derniers y présentent les connaissances actuelles et les idées innovantes des diverses branches de la gouvernance
Encontrando senderos pluriversales
La crisis actual es histórica y estructural con amplias evidencias en la ecología del planeta que muestra una creciente degradación ambiental. Es necesaria una profunda crítica al desarrollo puesto que los procesos productivos han conducido a un deterioro de los recursos naturales. Se perfila una propuesta de deconstrucción del desarrollo que cuestiona el crecimiento económico, la racionalidad instrumental, el antropocentrismo y el sexismo. Los p…
Hallar senderos pluriversales
Crisis as opportunity
This chapter proposes a strategy for postdevelopment politics, growing organically from ‘a world confluence of alternatives’. It reaches for a pluriverse. In the ‘development’ era, people believed that the culture of capitalist modernity would bring universal progress and material abundance. However, the eurocentric political model has resulted in a global crisis so severe that Life-on-Earth now faces extinction. The reality of development is oil…
Earth Vikalp Sangam: Proposal for a Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Globally there is a visible counter-trend to the destructive process of ‘development’ that the forces of capitalism, statism, patriarchy have imposed. Though still marginal and not yet able to make significant macro-level transformations, the resistance is growing. As is, often emerging from such resistance, there is a re-assertion of ways of life that respect, nature (including humans), co-existence, and justice. Such radical alternatives can be…
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
"Contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values."--Page [4] of cover
A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: Resistances, movements and alternatives
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: Paths to the Pluriverse
This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron 'sustainable development', and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymaker…
Protected Area Governance and Management
Better practices for managing inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas—including rivers, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries—are the focus of this chapter. Most natural protected areas are designated as ‘terrestrial’ or ‘marine’, and the obvious question for most managers is ‘why should I worry about the (usually) small portion of my protected area that involves freshwater habitat’. On the contrary, in this chapter…
Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to sustainable development and the Green Economy
New Steps of Change: Looking Beyond Protected Areas to Consider Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
In 2010, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Aichi Biodiversity Targets as part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. Target 11 calls for 'at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas' to be conserved by way of 'well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures'. Yet four years after th…
India 2100: Towards Radical Ecological Democracy
Conservation as if People Also Mattered: Policy and Practice of Community-based Conservation
Community-based conservation is being increasingly recognised as a major global force in the protection and sustainable management of ecosystems and species. Yet documentation of its main achievements and shortcomings, and the key issues it faces, is still at a nascent stage. This paper introduces the concept and experience of two forms of community-based conservation: Collaborative Management of Protected Areas (CMPA), and Indigenous Peoples' an…
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie
A national plan, built from below ? — The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, India
The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), formulated from 2000 to 2003, was envisaged as a comprehensive action plan for conserving biodiversity in India, that would adequately reflect the aspirations of the hitherto marginalised peoples who have a direct stake in biodiversity conservation. For the first time, a truly participatory approach was adopted for environmental conservation and planning in India. For a country of India'…
People's participation in the conservation of biodiversity
A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: Resistances, movements and alternatives
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: Paths to the Pluriverse
This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron 'sustainable development', and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymaker…
Earth Vikalp Sangam: Proposal for a Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Globally there is a visible counter-trend to the destructive process of ‘development’ that the forces of capitalism, statism, patriarchy have imposed. Though still marginal and not yet able to make significant macro-level transformations, the resistance is growing. As is, often emerging from such resistance, there is a re-assertion of ways of life that respect, nature (including humans), co-existence, and justice. Such radical alternatives can be…
Autonomy and pluriversal energy futures in Ladakh, India
In Ladakh, a trans-Himalayan region of India, two drastically opposite visions of energy transition are colliding head-on. The first is a grassroots, indigenous approach that emphasises on low-impact and socioecologically just energy practices, meant primarily for local consumption. The other is a government and corporate driven, technocratic vision pushing for large-scale energy infrastructure and critical mineral mining, to supply energy to hig…
Sanctioning Disciplined Grabs (SDGs): From SDGs as Green Anti-Politics Machine to Radical Alternatives
India 2100: Towards Radical Ecological Democracy
People's participation in the conservation of biodiversity
A national plan, built from below ? — The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, India
The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), formulated from 2000 to 2003, was envisaged as a comprehensive action plan for conserving biodiversity in India, that would adequately reflect the aspirations of the hitherto marginalised peoples who have a direct stake in biodiversity conservation. For the first time, a truly participatory approach was adopted for environmental conservation and planning in India. For a country of India'…
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie
Conservation as if People Also Mattered: Policy and Practice of Community-based Conservation
Community-based conservation is being increasingly recognised as a major global force in the protection and sustainable management of ecosystems and species. Yet documentation of its main achievements and shortcomings, and the key issues it faces, is still at a nascent stage. This paper introduces the concept and experience of two forms of community-based conservation: Collaborative Management of Protected Areas (CMPA), and Indigenous Peoples' an…
Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to sustainable development and the Green Economy
New Steps of Change: Looking Beyond Protected Areas to Consider Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
In 2010, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Aichi Biodiversity Targets as part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. Target 11 calls for 'at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas' to be conserved by way of 'well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures'. Yet four years after th…
India 2100: Towards Radical Ecological Democracy
Protected Area Governance and Management
Better practices for managing inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas—including rivers, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries—are the focus of this chapter. Most natural protected areas are designated as ‘terrestrial’ or ‘marine’, and the obvious question for most managers is ‘why should I worry about the (usually) small portion of my protected area that involves freshwater habitat’. On the contrary, in this chapter…
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: Paths to the Pluriverse
This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron 'sustainable development', and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymaker…
A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: Resistances, movements and alternatives
Crisis as opportunity
This chapter proposes a strategy for postdevelopment politics, growing organically from ‘a world confluence of alternatives’. It reaches for a pluriverse. In the ‘development’ era, people believed that the culture of capitalist modernity would bring universal progress and material abundance. However, the eurocentric political model has resulted in a global crisis so severe that Life-on-Earth now faces extinction. The reality of development is oil…
Earth Vikalp Sangam: Proposal for a Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Globally there is a visible counter-trend to the destructive process of ‘development’ that the forces of capitalism, statism, patriarchy have imposed. Though still marginal and not yet able to make significant macro-level transformations, the resistance is growing. As is, often emerging from such resistance, there is a re-assertion of ways of life that respect, nature (including humans), co-existence, and justice. Such radical alternatives can be…
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
"Contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values."--Page [4] of cover
Gouvernance et gestion des aires protégées
Le livre “Gouvernance et gestion des aires protégées” est une compilation de textes originaux, d'études de cas et d'exemples du monde entier. Il s’appuie sur une vaste littérature et sur les connaissances et l'expérience de nombreux acteurs des aires protégées. Ces derniers y présentent les connaissances actuelles et les idées innovantes des diverses branches de la gouvernance
Encontrando senderos pluriversales
La crisis actual es histórica y estructural con amplias evidencias en la ecología del planeta que muestra una creciente degradación ambiental. Es necesaria una profunda crítica al desarrollo puesto que los procesos productivos han conducido a un deterioro de los recursos naturales. Se perfila una propuesta de deconstrucción del desarrollo que cuestiona el crecimiento económico, la racionalidad instrumental, el antropocentrismo y el sexismo. Los p…
Hallar senderos pluriversales
From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…
Sanctioning Disciplined Grabs (SDGs): From SDGs as Green Anti-Politics Machine to Radical Alternatives
Autonomy and pluriversal energy futures in Ladakh, India
In Ladakh, a trans-Himalayan region of India, two drastically opposite visions of energy transition are colliding head-on. The first is a grassroots, indigenous approach that emphasises on low-impact and socioecologically just energy practices, meant primarily for local consumption. The other is a government and corporate driven, technocratic vision pushing for large-scale energy infrastructure and critical mineral mining, to supply energy to hig…
Toward a More Globally Attuned Degrowth: Linking Non-Growth Approaches to Direct Democracy and Ecological Sustainability Across Global Divides
This article contributes to the ongoing efforts to develop a more globally attuned degrowth perspective by placing it in dialogue with post-development scholarship. Together, these two critical frameworks challenge dominant growth-oriented paradigms in distinct geopolitical and epistemological contexts. While degrowth, rooted in the Global North, critiques capitalist expansion and advocates for democratically led downscaling, post-development eme…
Flower of Transformation: A Reflexive Method for Change in Alternative Organizing
The Flower of Transformation is a community-based tool originating from grassroots alternative organizing in India. This article discusses the potential of the Flower as an innovative co-creative research method, reflecting on its emancipatory potential on the ground as well as its decolonial, reflexive possibilities for researchers. Drawing on literature on participatory, co-creative, and decolonial research methods and the original goals of the…
Political science (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)