New Economic Paradigms for Peace and the Planet: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives

The fourth and final webinar of CGSHR’s Spring 2021 Speaker Series, “Prospects for Sustainable Peace at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and the Climate Crisis.”

This intervention introduces degrowth scholarship and activism and discusses how it can help us to build a new economic paradigm – a paradigm that ventures beyond what Rachel Carson has called the “war on life”, a war arising from an economic system that structurally depends on the exploitation of nature, women, and people discriminated against in terms of, for example, class, race, and gender. Having its origins in an ecological critique of our economic system, this talk emphasizes that a degrowth alternative necessarily needs to embrace intersectionality in order to pave the way for socially (and also: gender-) just and ecologically sustainable futures.