Renowned Latin American scholar-activist, Arturo Escobar, brings a vision integrating human communities and the Earth in the face of climate crisis.
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Degrowth: Coming to a Hemisphere Near You
Marisol Cortez A few years ago, while writing a series about development politics in San Antonio, and specifically about alternatives to development as a conceptual paradigm, I signed up for a listserv called “Research and Degrowth.” And every so often, news of degrowth-related conferences and submission opportunities would congregate in […]
Can Ecuador’s ‘Buen Vivir’ translate in the United States?
San Antonio’s PR teams are advancing a particular vision of sustainability. And they’re tapping into the language of “buen vivir.”
Deceleration at ASLE 2017
This past week the environmental humanities arm of Deceleration took two days off work and Xanax’ed our way through nightmare flights to/from Detroit, where we joined up with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, a biennial conference of scholars, writers, activists, journalists, and artists working at the […]