Decolonising Economics - African and Feminist Perspectives on Post Growth Futures

Summary

Sonia Tesfaye, writing for the Post Growth Institute, argues for an understanding of wellbeing that takes in “cultural heritage, social cooperation, environmental stewardship, and community resilience”. Questioning Western-imposed metrics lets formerly colonised nations and communities “redefine progress on their own terms”. Non-western cosmologies hold regenerative ways of living already: better futures “already exist, if we know where to look”.

Rationale

‘Better futures’ that already exist match something we say of practice: “there’s already deep culturally impactful work everywhere”. Tesfaye locates it in African and feminist economies that Western metrics overlook.