Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence - Questions, experiences, and proposals from two Indigenous territories

Summary

Writing to the degrowth movement, Padini Nirmal and Dianne Rocheleau offer a decolonial and feminist critique: re-situate degrowth in the Global South and Indigenous resistance. Drawing on Zapatista and allied groups in Mexico and three Adivasi communities in India, they argue for “a profoundly material strategy” of resurgence “through practices of re-rooting and re-commoning”, towards “futures of sufficiency and celebration”.

Rationale

Getting Deep names commoning as one way people might experience different dispositions. Here it’s resurgence, defended by communities resisting growth’s reach into their land.