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Joseph Cederwall
Freelance Writer
Joseph is Co-editor of Scoop and Editor of The Dig. Joseph is an editor, writer, and social entrepreneur with an interest in open and participatory media and business models. In 2019, Joseph founded The Dig. Joseph has qualifications in law and anthropology and previously practiced as a lawyer in the Immigration and Human Rights field. He is now applying this background to the practice of ‘reverse anthropology' using a framing of indigenous worldviews to deconstruct the dominant worldviews and cultural myths of Western society. Joseph has a longstanding interest in the commons, participatory democracy, social justice, and human rights. He was a co-founder, and founding Director of ActionStation Aotearoa - now NZ's largest online movement-building organisation. Joseph is also a Director of Freerange Publishing Cooperative, and a long-time contributor to Enspiral - a non-hierarchical collective of freelancers and ventures dedicated to collaborative business practice and purpose-driven enterprise. He lives in beautiful Taranaki and enjoys watersports, permaculture, tai chi, music, and being in nature.
Joseph Cederwall - Latest News [Page 4]
Queenstown Airbnb Reform a Good Start But Not Far Enough
Friday, 10 November 2017, 12:20 pm | Joseph Cederwall
The Proposed changes to short-term visitor accommodation rules in the Queenstown Lakes district are a good step in the right direction to ensuring affordable housing for locals and longer-term tourists. More >>
How To Vote To Ensure A More Open Government
Thursday, 21 September 2017, 6:43 am | Joseph Cederwall
Part two of an Opening the Election 2017 series on Open Government in Aotearoa. If you are still wondering what open government is, and why it is important to NZ then the first article is a good start for you . More >>
Open Government – Inoculating Against Fascism
Friday, 1 September 2017, 4:15 am | Joseph Cederwall
The ultimate aim of any human society should be to ensure the prosperity, freedom and fulfilment for all of its members. Our shared natural, economic and social resources are part of a common inheritance or ‘commonwealth’, therefore must be utilised ... More >>
Why We Need a More Open Election in 2017
Friday, 18 August 2017, 3:23 am | Joseph Cederwall
In April Scoop received crowdfunding from our generous supporters in order to achieve the goal of “Opening The Election” in 2017. We are happy to announce that Scoop’s new Opening The Election 2017 page is live now. More >>
UBI could increase human well-being and help save the planet
Thursday, 17 August 2017, 11:45 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Anthropologist Jason Hickel believes basic income could be part of the solution to this problem of the pervasiveness of the growth mentality. He presents UBI as forming part of a strategy of "planned de-growth," which he believes will "increase ... More >>
Universal Basic Income - The Future of Work in Aotearoa?
Monday, 14 August 2017, 9:22 am | Joseph Cederwall
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an unconditional minimum income provided to every member of society regardless of age, working status or level of income. The UBI seeks to maintain a functional market economy in the face of increasing technological disruption, ... More >>
Freshwater as a common good; healthy and sustainable water
Thursday, 20 July 2017, 10:35 am | Joseph Cederwall
“How can we ensure we have healthy and sustainable water in New Zealand for the future?” More >>
WOMAD goes Literary
Friday, 28 October 2016, 11:23 am | Joseph Cederwall
Usually host to a world of music and dance, this year WOMAD is expanding their horizons to incorporate the ‘world of words’ – a sort of pop-up global literary café. The programme is focused on literature, poetry and stories and thinking from around ... More >>
No Safe Haven
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 9:11 am | Joseph Cederwall
New Zealand’s continued refusal to do more to help the world address the worst refugee crisis since World War II appears to be coming under international pressure. US President Barack Obama called for a ‘collective effort’ and for richer developed ... More >>
Havelock North Gastro Outbreak Raises Risk of Bowel Disease
Wednesday, 7 September 2016, 2:14 pm | Joseph Cederwall
The recent Gastro outbreak affecting over 5,000 people in Havelock North is likely to increase the rate of serious autoimmune diseases among those affected. Common inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis have been ... More >>
