Gabriela Cabaña is a sociologist and anthropologist with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently a member of the Pacto Ecosocial e Intercultural del Sur, Energía y Equidad, and a researcher at Fundación Tantí (based in Chile).
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Decarbonisation plans in Europe are causing social and environmental disasters in Chile. In this article, Gabriela Cabaña explores resistance to green hydrogen projects in Antofagasta.
By: Gabriela Cabaña, Diego Arahuetés, Mariana Calcagni, María Paz Aedo, CASA - Centro de Análisis Socioambiental
What does degrowth mean in the Latin American context? In 2020, a series of six self-organized encounters attempted to dive into this question. Each meeting reflected the metaphor of the agricultural process: from sowing to harvesting. Among the conclusions was a unanimous desire to put into practice ‘other ways of inhabiting the world’, valuing the knowledge of the original peoples and...
By: Gabriela Cabaña, Vandana Sharma
In a recent article for Forbes, Corbin K Barthold makes several allegations against the idea of degrowth without having a clear understanding of the concept. He also includes some quotations - originally reported in a different article (by Aaron Timms) - from a vibrant classroom discussion which took place at the 2019 Degrowth Summer School hosted by the Institute of Environmental Science...
By: Julio Linares, Gabriela Cabaña
The following text is an excerpt from “Towards an Ecology of Care: Basic Income Beyond the Nation-state (unpublished). Even though the degrowth movement has shown the limits of our civillization’s obsession with growth, and has promoted and proposed complementary currencies, the degrowth critique has yet to consider the role that money/credit creation plays more explicitly. Ecological...