Scaling out a pluriversality of alternative futures: The case of Vikalp Sangam

Vikalp Sangam (or Alternatives Confluence) is a national platform and process established in India in 2014 to document, network, and create collaborations amongst grassroots movements and groups constructing alternative models for justice, equity, and ecological sustainability. Last November, authors Emilia Lewartowska and Lone Riisgaard attended the VS General Assembly meeting in Shoranur, Kerala. They offer reflections on participatory democratic processes within multi-level alternative organising, illustrating how the VS process connects the global with the local experimentations on the ground. Rather than aiming to scale up and provide a unified front, the VS process seeks to scale out and deep, interconnecting a pluriversality of experiences, practices voices and justice demands.