Newsflash: Degrowth is not decolonisation

Samantha Suppiah
POSSIBLE FUTURES
Published in
4 min readOct 15, 2023

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Private sector and academic discourse on degrowth and postgrowth has overt colonial agendas.

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One way we can easily identify colonial patterns within degrowth discourse is through the concepts it considers as fundamental, while intentionally ignoring basic decolonial objectives and approaches such as anti-oppression and justice, let alone self-determination and care. It assumes that modern…

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Samantha Suppiah
POSSIBLE FUTURES

Southeast Asian trickster. Design strategist for decolonial sustainability & regeneration. www.possiblefutures.earth/samantha