S03E48 - Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance

Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell discuss Radical Abundance, transition and public-commons partnerships.

Shownotes

Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press.

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/

Kai Heron at Lancaster University:

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron

Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media:

https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/

Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona:

https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell

Abundance (the collective):

https://www.in-abundance.org/

on Marta Harnecker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker

on Michael A. Lebowitz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz

Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project.

https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/

on Yevgeni Preobrazhensky:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky

Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press.

https://files.libcom.org/files/%5bPreobrazhensky%2C_Evgeny_Alekseevich%5d_The_New_Econo(BookZZ.org).pdf

Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

on Public-Commons Partnerships:

https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership

https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/public-common-partnerships-building-new-circuits-of-collective-ownership

for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see:

https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies

on Public-Private Partnerships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership

on council farms in the UK:

https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/

Common Wealth (the organization):

https://www.common-wealth.org/

Common Wealth’s recent project on privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the UK:

https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home

on Che Guevara:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

on Stuart Hall:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)

on Hugo Chávez:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez

Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.

https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/

on agroecology:

https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/

SCOP-TI:

https://www.scop-ti.info/

the Berlin Housing Campaign:

https://dwenteignen.de/en

on the Wards Corner Market:

https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner

Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.

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