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About Mariana Calcagni

Mariana Calcagni is a sociologist and PhD student in Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Strategy • 05.03.2021

Collective learnings from the 2020 Latin American Degrowth Forum

Collective learnigns

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 inhabit...