Myriam Best is a caring human, an activist, and professional currently in transition. She worked as a strategy consultant before joining the first cohort of the online master’s degree in Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Her interests are wide-ranging, converging on issues of decolonisation, environmental and climate justice, ecofeminism and the modalities of a socio-ecological transformation. She aims for a better “world where many worlds fit”.
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“We invent nothing, or only very little.” A portrait of Les Soulèvements de la Terre and some reflections
Although the movement’s actions are based on local struggles, it is part of a broader post-capitalist and post-development struggle. The movement aims to abolish the patriarchal, colonial, racist, and extractivist growth regime while building a new world here and now.
July 10, 2025
Beyond Growth 2023: critical reflections on a “historic conference” with blind spots.
As historic as the conference may have been, much remains to be done to strengthen the degrowth paradigm and avoid its co-option by institutional politicians of all stripes, but also to create a genuine dynamic for transformation.
July 26, 2023
