Beyond Sustainable Development to Sustainable Societies: Insights from Feminist and Indigenous Theories and Praxis

Manisha Desai

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-99109-7_6

Beyond Sustainable Development to Sustainable Societies: Insights from Feminist and Indigenous Theories and Praxis

Manisha Desai

Sociology

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Drawing on feminist, indigenous, and abolitionist thinkers, I suggest that we need a fundamental transformation in how and what we produce, consume, and redistribute and how we relate to each other and to all living and nonliving entities on this earth. This means going beyond sustainable development, a one-size-fits-all model based on neoliberal, market-based growth, to conceptualize place- and culture-specific sustainable societies. I define sustainable societies along three dimensions: economic, epistemic, and political. Sustainable societies are one articulation of eco-social contracts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures
Subtitle of host publication	Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	97-111
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031991097
ISBN (Print)	9783031991080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99109-7_6
State	Published - Jan 1 2025

Keywords

Care-based economies
Coalition politics
Epistemic justice
Sustainable societies

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Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures: Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis. Springer Nature, 2025. p. 97-111.

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