Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya;Alexander Paulsson;Stefania Barca;

Author:Ekaterina Chertkovskaya;Alexander Paulsson;Stefania Barca;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2012-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

This chapter has shown how, rather than a recent concept in social science, decoloniality has been a historical practice of counter-colonial populations (Bispo dos Santos 2015). The chapter has also shown how, in the experience of the Brazilian Amazon, social movements acting side by side with indigenous, Quilombo, and other traditional communities have long challenged the monocultural idea of progress and growth. Resisting genocide via re-existence (or the defense of alternative life-projects and territorial difference), these movements oppose the civilizing project of economic growth as implemented by both progressive and authoritarian governments. The ideology of growth—monocultural, universal—is thus both ontologically and materially challenged by the opposition represented by territorialized collectives in the Amazon (Amerindians, Forest People Alliances, agro-ecological peasant communities) not only resisting the material plundering of resources but also reacting epistemically and ontologically in envisioning possibilities for re-existence. Going beyond the motto “Another world is possible”, these other worlds that already exist also resist and revive (Walsh 2017). And by resisting and reviving they contradict the theology of extractivism and its “manifest destiny”.

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