Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari is a founder of the Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, and served on Greenpeace International and Greenpeace India boards. An active participant in peoples movements, he helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam Global Tapestry of Alternatives processes and Radical Ecological Democracy network. His books include Churning the Earth: Making of Global India (with Aseem Shrivastava), Alternative Futures: India Unshackled (co-edited with KJ Joy), and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (co-edited with Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta).