By A/Prof Kate Booth For the purposes of this article, let’s say anarchism is this: ‘Anarchism is, fundamentally, an ethical critique of authority – an ethical duty to question and resist domination in all its forms’ – Saul Newman In classic anarchism, the questioning of power described by Newman comes with the idea that allowingContinue reading “Post-anarchism and collapse – full article”
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Call for papers
Futures of Global Catastrophic Risks and Societal Collapse Submission deadline for this special issue of Futures: 21 March 2027 Guest editors: Danilo Brozović (University of Skövde, Sweden); Florian Ulrich Jehn (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany); Elena Kavanagh (Arctic Youth Network and University College Cork, Ireland); and Just Collapse’s Kate Booth (University of Tasmania, Australia). “Against thisContinue reading “Call for papers”
The safest place on Earth?
Tasmania/Lutruwita is where Just Collapse resides. New research says it’s the safest place on Earth in a global catastrophe. That’s a worry! In a globalised world, we’re not that isolated, we are definitely not self-sufficient in food, democracy is under as much pressure as anywhere else, inequality is growing, and very little is decentralised. InsteadContinue reading “The safest place on Earth?”
What could a Collapse Camp look like where you live?
Collapse Camp 2026 has just wrapped up in Germany. A huge success by all accounts! Collapse Camp aims to act now because the “…existing systems are already unstable or reaching their limits, crises and disasters are increasing. The compulsion to grow and the promise of eternal progress through technology are no longer viable. We seeContinue reading “What could a Collapse Camp look like where you live?”
What is mutual aid?
Mutual Aid is an essential part of a Just Collapse. In addressing inequity and inequality, mutual aid can help house and feed people, build a sense of belonging and solidarity, and contribute to networks and movements standing against the far right and other forms of oppression. Article by Abby Lee Hood: “After the tornado, IContinue reading “What is mutual aid?”
Can we go green again?
Many who are aware of unfolding and irreversible collapse are familiar with the planetary boundary diagram. Updated periodically by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the green center at the heart of the diagram is our ‘safe operating zone’. The spectrum of yellow, red, and purple signify how the boundaries of this zone are being transgressed, contributingContinue reading “Can we go green again?”
“I’m scared”: the conversation nobody wants to have
Excerpt from Tadzio Mueller’s forthcoming book: I’m scared of the future. It wasn’t always like this, because despite being a “commie eco faggot”, I am, first and foremost, a fairly privileged, bourgeois (albeit half-migrant, but white-passing) cis man, and as such the world didn’t, until recently, really have to frighten me. Until not so veryContinue reading ““I’m scared”: the conversation nobody wants to have”
New article: Just Collapse and post-anarchism
If irreversible collapse changes politics and activism, what do we call this politics? In this new article, A/Prof Kate Booth looks at ‘post-anarchism’ as a way of articulating and acting for socio-ecological justice in decline and disaster: “… post-anarchism is about living between worlds– between the dying, collapsing world of global capital and climate-ecological destruction and the unknown future worlds of disparate peopleContinue reading “New article: Just Collapse and post-anarchism”
EVENT: How collapse changes politics and action
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Upcoming event – Germany
Mutual Aid HEAT is an upcoming week-long event, practicing mutual aid in stressful situations. This kind of event is collapse activism – the new frontier of leftwing politics. Why? Because collapse changes politics and activism, and we must do what we can for each other and to resist the rise of the right. “We areContinue reading “Upcoming event – Germany”
