Beyond the National: Cities, Bioregions and the Planetary

Even more, the imperative to collectively manage the regional and ultimately global commons – those resources of the world that are critical to life and over which no private body or nation can have exclusive ownership – is a more compelling reason to attend to these transnational efforts. Today regionalism can become an emergent, albeit unstable,

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These emerging political imaginaries take on the intellectual work of breaking out of the polarisation between a wholly human-centric worldview (of the kind found in orthodox economics and most twentieth-century politics) and the extreme ecological view in which humans are to be despised and rejected. Such a reconnection was the promise of complexi

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biregioning, which is the verb, like how do you do it, really is kind of getting to grips with existing power structures, with politics, with economics, with, uh, climate change with all the kind of challenges and ills that we're facing. [00:06:33] And some people see it as a response to the polycrisis because it embraces everything, because it cov... See more

Bioregioning is essential to re fi tting humanity back into a planet with a biosphere, into the regenerative patterns that sustain life on this planet