Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

This paper brings the Global South to the center stage of degrowth debates to envision what a truly global and anti-colonial movement towards degrowth could look like. To do so, we first bring the varying definitions of the term 'Global South' to the forefront and consider it not as an undynamic and apolitical category, but as a site of resistance and independent critical thinking against capitalist expansion and the process of neoliberal globalization. Second, we discuss the structural and sociocultural constraints of the Global South that they inherited from their historical experience of colonialism and oppression and paved the way for their so-called 'underdevelopment'. By re-visiting dependency and world-systems theory, we reprise the problematic experience of the Global South's efforts to self-defined and self-generated development in the past. Lastly, we instrumentalize the critical pedagogy framework of Paulo Freire, to illuminate what awauits the Global South in a degrowth transition. We conclude our discussion by arguing that as the 'oppressed', the Global South is the true leader of a revolutionary transformation through and towards degrowth, as only they can liberate both themselves and their 'oppressor' the Global North, from the ossified patterns of (neo)colonialism and domination to achieve such transformation.

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Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:15
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-KC-1
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Contemporary emancipatory internationalism

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