Narratives for Wealth Systems Change

Summary

A former #FeesMustFall student leader traces the idea of who counts as rational from Aristotle to the Washington Consensus, and finds post-growth frameworks starting from the Western canon. Her answer is to “begin elsewhere”, from Global Majority knowledge, with stories that reach the nervous system, not only the intellect, because “We cannot build a new economy on an old epistemology.”

Rationale

The question we turn on ourselves, whether we’re “mirroring the very things we want to see changed”, she turns on post-growth thinking, and finds the mirror in whose knowledge counts.