Saurabh Arora is a Senior Lecturer in Technology and Innovation for Development (SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit) University of Sussex Business School. His research and learning journeys over the last two decades have focused on sustainability and its politics, particularly in relation to science, technology and innovation issues in agriculture and energy. More recently he has also worked on politics of urban transformations and of poverty alleviation. Much of this research was based in India and East Africa.
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From Growth, through Degrowth, to a Pluriverse of Flourishings
Only by defying the persistently narrow choice between ‘growth’ or ‘degrowth’ in forms that are categorically given, can the twin faces of colonial modernity in technocratic consumerism and environmental authoritarianism finally be confronted and transformed.
May 9, 2023
Whither the pluriverse? Degrowth and coloniality
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
September 23, 2021
