Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

This article builds on feminist and decolonial perspectives and engages with political geography literature to rethink the way peace and violence are understood in the Global South. Building peace that is coherent with planetary and ecological limits, and that does not further direct and structural violence, necessitates breaking with the extractivist model of development that benefits growth and accumulation over people's wellbeing. By theorizing the way that degrowth strategies can be understood as furthering climate resilient peace in the Global South, this article proposes two ways that we can understand peace as a liberatory praxis based on 'the room to grow' and 'the right to say no'. Through these two strategies, I aim at centering a liberatory praxis for peace on the need to negate both material and symbolic system and structures of oppression that produce climate and environmental changes, as well as reproduce direct, structural, and cultural violence. A peace praxis focused on the liberation of the Global South identifies that different types of violence connected to climate and environmental changes and underdevelopment are not only connected, but that they share their roots in deeper structural systems of extractivism, exploitation, and colonization.

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Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:00
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-KC-1
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Climate (in)justice

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