Pluriverse: horizons for a civilizational transformation
Keywords:
degrowth, buen vivir, ecofeminism, transition, socio-ecological transformationAbstract
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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