South South Dialogue on Sustainability (SSDS)
Perspectives on People’s Economies
Following our webinar series Delinking for Self-Determination and Solidarity, we invite you to join a discussion centered on perspectives of people’s economies. Over recent decades, labor unions, cooperative movements, peasant organizations, community-based initiatives, people’s communes and feminist collectives have waged struggles around land access, the organization of production, collective planning, assembly-based power, social ownership of the means of production, modalities of self-management, alternative redistribution, and the social appropriation of value, among other dynamics. These practices have taken root in local territories while simultaneously contesting state policies.
Can we understand these efforts as constituent elements of potential delinking agendas for sovereign projects? Is it possible to construct national and transnational delinking strategies grounded in such experiences? Might people’s economies offer critical pathways for alternative development and economic models emerging from the Global South?
Co-Organizers:
Global University for Sustainability
CCRD-CS, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
Daraja Press
ALBA Movements
National University of Communes, Venezuela
Southern School of Social Policy and the Postgraduate Program in Social Policy, UFES, Brazil
The Network for Post-Capitalism Studies, Mexico
Date: 31 October 2026 (Saturday)
Time: UTC 13:00 (Mexico City 07:00, Caracas 09:00, São Paulo 10:00, Dakar 13:00, New Delhi 18:30, Bangkok 20:00, Hong Kong 21:00).
Zoom registration:
https://lingnan.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UidL-uydSGC8GobdLz8lmQ
Simultaneous Interpretation: English/Spanish/Chinese
Moderator: Hernan Vargas (National University of Communes, Venezuela)
Speakers:
- Miguel Stedile (MST, Brazil)
- Akkanut Wantanasombat (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
- Maisa Bascuas (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Miriam Nobre (World March of Women, Brazil)
- Emilia Reyes (Gender Equity: Citizenship, Work and Family, Mexico)
