What would it look like for our universities to be "radically abundant"? To not be governed by logics of scarcity and precarity, but instead by logics of radical abdundance and sufficiency? What would it look like if they were actually run democratically, and actively working towards dismantling the structures of power that fuel climate breakdown, genocide, fascism and war?
Most importantly, how do we get there?
Our new paper "Degrowth and decolonisation in academia: Intersecting strategies towards transformation" provides a contribution towards answering these questions.
We present a vision for an academic system centered on public provisioning and communal sharing, rather than the currently dominant state of artificial scarcity. We then make use of the “strategic canvas for degrowth,” developed by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, as inspired by the work of Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright, to understand how power is today challenged within the university’s walls, and how transformation towards radically abundant alternatives can be enacted.
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