Pluriverse: horizons for a civilizational transformation

Authors

  • Federico Demaria Universitat de Barcelona, International Institute of Social Studies (Holanda)
  • Alberto Acosta FLACSO Ecuador
  • Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh (India) e Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCA) Consortium
  • Ariel Salleh University of Sydney (Australia)
  • Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina (EEUU)

Abstract

This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron "sustainable development", and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development research agenda for a civilizational transformation. We present and discuss three examples of alternatives to development: ecological swaraj from India, buen vivir from the Amazonian and Andean indigenous world of Latin America and Degrowth from Europe. This gives a hint of our book titled Pluriverse: The Post-Development Dictionary (AUF, 2019), that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymakers and scholars on a variety of worldviews and practices relating to the collective search for an ecologically wise and socially just world. This volume could be one base in the search for alternatives to United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in an attempt to truly transform the world. In fact, it is an agenda towards the "Pluriverse": "a world where many worlds fit", as the Zapatistas say.

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Published

2021-06-03

How to Cite

Demaria, F., Acosta, A., Kothari, A., Salleh, A., & Escobar, A. (2021). Pluriverse: horizons for a civilizational transformation. Journal of Critical Economics, 1(29), 46–66. Retrieved from https://revistaeconomiacritica.org/index.php/rec/article/view/249

Issue

No. 29 (2020): First semester 2020

Section

Articles