Research | ALAMEDA

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AT ALAMEDA

Alameda’s research examines the structural causes of catastrophic threats and explores transformative pathways to a better future. This provides a basis for Alameda to inform strategy and policy, shape public debate, and build relationships with social and political organisations.

Strategic Research for Catastrophic Times

Alameda brings together researchers, intellectuals, activists, and organisers to develop a programme that is invested in social and political realities. Through our network, we explore critical questions at the intersection of politics and economics, culture and ecology.

Connected to social struggles

Grounded in contemporary economic and political realities, our research programme engages directly with social struggles, responding strategically to catastrophic threats and their structural causes

Collaborative, internationalist, and interdisciplinary

We bring together a network of researchers and activists across disciplines and regions to explore international connections and dependencies, addressing critical contemporary issues at their full global scale and promoting internationalism through research.

Public-facing and critically engaged

We aim to shape public debate internationally by sharing research in multiple languages and formats—from essays and dossiers to podcasts, videos, events, and social media, reaching diverse audiences.

Strategy-orientated

Alameda creates space for critical dialogue and collaboration, strengthening strategic thinking on major global crises, with a focus on producing strategic insights towards a more egalitarian future.

See our ‘Pathways of Change’ to understand how our research contributes to social transformation.

‘For Alameda, research is not just an end in itself, but also a means to forming connections, building networks, and, ultimately, guiding strategy’.

Benjamin Fogell, Head of Publishing

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PROJECTS

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After Order examines changes in the exercise of power and sovereignty, and what they mean for the pursuit of collective freedoms.

Just Transitions and the Political Economy of Climate Change explores structural challenges and opportunities for just transitions in energy and food systems.

OTHER PROJECTS

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Emergency! The rise and fall of the aid industry

Explores the contradictions and limitations of humanitarian aid as a response to permanent emergency. It provides an analysis of the political of the rise and fall of the global aid industry since the capitalist crises of the 1970s, and examines the challenges that climate change poses to aid organisations, systems, and technologies.

War after revolution: Maidan and the post-Soviet crisis of hegemony

Examines the relationship between recurrent crises of hegemony in post-Soviet republics, ‘Maidan revolutions’, and the war in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. It also addresses a broader question: why have contemporary revolutions struggled to produce the social transformations their participants aspire to?

Surplus Humanity: De-development from the periphery

Combining empirical and theoretical work, this research explores changes in the world of work and the growing production of surplus populations as part of a de-development process of ‘peripherisation’. It also addresses the effects of this process on politics and democracy.

Beyond Catastrophe: Organising for a future

A new collective imagination of the future has taken form, but it is dominated by catastrophe. This project explores ways in which cultural and political organisation gives form to images of a brighter future, beyond catastrophe.