Seminar: "Vivir Sabroso and Degrowth: Clashing or complementing narratives?"

Dr Roldan Muradian, President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, will be giving a semianr at ICTA-UAB on November 14th.

Seminar: "Vivir Sabroso and Degrowth: Clashing or complementing narratives?"

Speaker: Roldan Muradian, President of the International Society for Ecological Economics
 

Date: Monday, November 14th 2022
Time: From 13.30h to 15h
Venue: Sala Antoni Rosell (Z/022 - Z/023) and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85709465866?pwd=bE5TMDJ6SnFuSm9WM251a1JKTHRGQT09

In this lecture I will compare two narratives for imagining alternative futures: Vivir Sabroso and Degrowth. The former articulates Afro- Latin American aspirations and notions of welfare, while the latter has been developed principally in Europe.  Are these narratives compatible with regards knowledge generation, policy design and political mobilization ? To what extent the class interests and social values that they represent are complementary for the construction of a common policy agenda? What are the points of convergence and divergence between them? These are some of the questions that will be discussed.
 

Short Bio
Roldan Muradian was born in Venezuela. He holds a bachelor degree in Biology from the Simón Bolívar University (Caracas, Venezuela), and a Ph.D in Ecological Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has worked at the Universities of Tilburg and Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and currently he teaches at the Faculty of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the current President of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Roldan was part of the first cohort of PhD students at ICTA, when the doctoral program started, in 1997.