Publications
Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures
The article examines how dwellers in Kenya’s informal settlements engage in continuous tinkering of a particular grassroots infrastructure: local currencies.
Nothing to lose
Highly deprived urban contexts, such as informal settlements in the global south, can turn into niches of extreme innovation and sparkle ingenuity out of necessity.
Organising grassroots infrastructure
In this paper, we assert that measures to contain the Covid-
Sardex: A digital business-to-business currency
The case covers Sardex, a local currency in Sardinia to address the 2008 economic crisis and discusses its operation, integration into local networks, and options for growth through public agencies.
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Commons-based Monies for an Inclusive and Resilient Future
This book delves into the pressing issue of climate change, with a focus on future predictions based on the latest data. It highlights the unprecedented CO2 levels and the risk of societal collapse due to insufficient action .
Organising grassroots infrastructure
In this paper, we assert that measures to contain the Covid-
Complementary Currencies for Humanitarian Aid
It was time to try something new in delivering humanitarian and development aid.
Sarafu; A Cryptocurrency for Kenyan Rural Communities
Life in Miyani was marked by nature’s rhythm, material need and gender
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change
Our dominant monetary systems leads to sustainability problems. Community currencies are showing us ways to design more sustainable monies.
The RAMICS Conference
Malleable infrastructures for the interstices: The case of the Kenyan community currencies
Report to the ICLD
Exploring the interest of diffusing grassroots financial & governance innovations
The research project
Action research methods: from Mombasa and Nairobi to Kisumu
ICLD policy brief No 4
Community tokens as a means of local economic empowerment.
The miracle of Wörgl
Teaching Case
Kenyan community currencies
Teaching Case
A route to commons-based democratic monies?
Embedding the production of money in traditional communal institutions.
Kenyan Community Currencies Role-play
This engaging roleplay brings to life the everyday challenges facing entrepreneurs
“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading,
In this paper, we assert that measures to contain the Covid-