Here we list the writers.
writers to be added
Murray Bookchin xxx to be added Cynhtia Cockburn xxx to be added Ewan Clayton xxx to be added Cook & Brown 1999 *The generative dance of knowing* - xxx to be added Abdullah Öcalan xxx to be added Thomas Picketty xxx to be added Kate Raworth xxx to be added Hegeland 2020 - *The future of text* - to be added xxx
writers described
Christopher Alexander was Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his seminal works on architecture including *A Pattern Language*, *Notes on the Synthesis of Form*, and *The Nature of Order,* Volumes I-IV.
David Bollier is an author, blogger and consultant on the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. Co-founded the Commons Strategies Group in 2010.
David Bollier & Silke Helfrich collaborated in a very rich, decade-long programme of investigation in the commons as a paradigm of economy, politics and culture. They co-produced a number of key works between 2012 and 2019, including *Free, fair and alive - The insurgent power of the commons*.
Arturo Escobar is an activist-researcher from Cali, Colombia, working on territorial struggles against extractivism, postdevelopmentalist and post-capitalist transitions, and ontological design.
JK Gibson-Graham is a nom de plume of Julie Graham and Katherine Gibson, action researchers in alternative economy. Their landmark first book *The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)* was first published in 1996, second edition 2006.
Mike Hales is a culture hacker (aka organiser), designer-maker, anthropologist, organic intellectual, dhamma practitioner: theory-of-practice geek . . I'm from Venus, what is it you do round here? aka barefoot doc.
David Harvey is a geographer with particular concerns in global uneven development, social justice and practices of reistance to forces of capitalist exploitation and damage.
Paul Hawken is a grren activist, civil society activist, author and entrepreneur.
Silke Helfrich was a German author and independent activist of the commons. She co-founded the Commons Strategies Group in 2010. Earlier she was a director of the Heinrich Boell Foundation regional offices of Central America, Mexico, and Cuba.
In the 70s, his *Deschooling society* and *Tools for conviviality* brought me to a participant awareness of radical professionalism, as a historical movement of baby-boomers. His commitment to restored (re-invented) vernacular capability has been a keystone of practice for me since then.
Has published a trilogy on modern slavery and a study of mineral extraction that underpins lithium battery production.
Robin Murray was a radical development economist, social entrepreneur, cooperator, pioneer in Fairtrade and early investigator of 'green' economics such as an economics of waste.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard is a political economist and Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Africana Studies Department at John Jay College, City University of NY; and author of *Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice*.
Sheila Rowbotham, Lyn Segal and Hilary Wainwright were involved organising a conference, eventually a book: Beyond the fragments - Feminism and the making of socialism (1979). A revised edition appeared in 2013.
Raymond Williams was a Welsh scholar, socialist, Marxist, author and organic-intellectual theorist of cultural production, significant in the New Left in Britain from the late 50s onwards.
River Wolton is a feminist activist for peace and a teacher of Buddhist dhamma.
Stephen Yeo (2017). 'The three socialisms' in *A useable past Vol 2: The religion of socilaism - Alternatives to State socialism*. Brighton: Edward Everett Root, pp30-103.