Federico Demaria is a researcher in ecological economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain); member of Research & Degrowth (@R_Degrowth) and co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (Routledge, 2014).
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‘Development’ is Colonialism in Disguise
The paths to a bio-civilization are multiple – and the pluriverse is already visible in the cosmovisions and radical practices of many groups worldwide. The notion of a pluriverse questions the alleged universality of Euro-Americacentric modernity. As the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, put it so wisely, the pluriverse constitutes “a world where many worlds fit”.
September 12, 2019
Their Recession is not our Degrowth!
Our proposal is not necessarily to reduce GDP (an arbitrary indicator), but rather to ask new questions and search for alternatives to today’s society based on a predatory, unjust and unsustainable capitalist economic system.
May 14, 2015
