Jason Hickel is an anthropologist That’s probably all that needs to be said about how intellectual hegemony works because he is fêted and hailed as providing the pathway for socio economic development that enhances human wellbeing through “degrowth”. His work is held us as providing leadership on economic strategies for the world. My critique is not about nomenclature, cause others have done this. It is about the positioning of a set of propositions that erases The Global Majority reducing billions to a sideshow simply because the protagonist is white, male, lives in a wealthy part of the world and is given the benefit of the doubt. This folks is what erasure looks like. Hickel does not even have to know about or grapple with development economics, structuralists, techno institutional paradigm shifts, institutional economics or innovation studies. His failure to acknowledge political economy or international relations theories while promulgating what he regards as policy relevant scholarship is only possible because two different sets of rules apply. Degrowth as put forward by Hickel and his passionate adherents does not provide explanations or solutions for a women facing a decade of drought in the Sahel region of Africa. Until it does and those thought leaders and practitioners working on these questions are held up and amplified as much as this author, we have work to do. Onwards! #intellectualhegemony #coloniality
Join me in 5 hours for the r3.0 Degrowth (De)coloniality Open Dialogue featuring Aashis Joshi & Erin Remblance reflecting on the significance of the recent exchange between Aashis & Jason Hickel when it comes to the degrowth movement advancing coloniality or decoloniality -- or both. You can join us here at 1:15 - 2:45am UTC https://lnkd.in/euw8i_NT Meeting ID: 860 5102 0723 Passcode: 762474 Yes, we will record this session and post it afterwards for those who can't make it. For background context, please see my previous post: https://lnkd.in/eKwG8asF One question we'll explore is whether collapse -- as evidenced, for example, by climate migration that disproportionately impacts colonized populations -- is a present reality that must be navigated, or future prospect that can be avoided through degrowth. Please bring your questions to this vitally important conversation! See you soon...
Gillian Marcelle, PhD... I have not delved into "degrowth" much... I am currently beginning to go deeper into overlaps-of/distinctions-across postcolonial and decolonial intellectual positions. Perhaps there is some sleight-of-hand in "degrowth"... But, is it the time to do these debates [they are okay, indeed needed, in academic publishing outlets] or do the mega-work of maga-resistance? When Drill-Baby-Drill-Climate-Go-to-Hell is at the doorstep, do we need to get into racial/Global-North-South aspects of decolonial-degrowth? To advance along the progressive frontier, all-of-the-above approach is the imperative of the day.
Hickel's entire response https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/1818247158165901654 to Aashis Joshi's (quite reasonable) critique https://x.com/aashisjo/status/1817498705177800890 is cringe-worthy, but Hickel really exhibits ignorance when he tweeted https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/1818247177816178977 "To say you want to deny people access to this life-saving technology now, because decades down the road (if we fail to implement ecological planning) they might need to migrate or we might not have manufacturing capacity... this is not acceptable." Uh ... climate migration as a problem "decades down the road"?? Really??? There are already an average of 21.5m climate refugees annually from 2008 - 2016 https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/stories/frequently-asked-questions-climate-change-and-disaster-displacement with a record high of 32.6 million in 2022 https://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2023/ Here are links to the recording and chat from the Open Dialogue: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billbaue_as-promised-here-are-links-to-the-recording-activity-7264659914436890624-7a-9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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