Project description
Exploring environmental movements in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
European researchers and activists argue that a socially just and ecologically sustainable society – in Europe and the rest of the world – is possible when economic and political changes are introduced. The global South needs support because it continues to face environmental problems that are triggered by the climate crisis. An even bigger hurdle is the lack of research on environmental justice movements in sub-Saharan Africa. The EU-funded POSTGROWTH project will use innovative participatory methods with African scholars and activists to conduct work on environmental justice movements in Africa. Ethnographic research on environmental movements that hindered green development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will help create a novel paradigm that prioritises decolonial methods.
Objective
In the face of an escalating climate crisis, social scientists are confronted with an urgent challenge: How can our research contribute to facilitating the kind of radical economic and political reorganizations necessary for reduced resource use on a global scale? European scholars and activists and are at the vanguard of this research, and many approaches have coalesced around theories of degrowth and post-growth, which envisage the transformations necessary to create a socially just and ecologically sustainable society. However, this is not solely a European challenge it is a global challenge. People of the Global South have been and continue to be the most impacted by the environmental devastation being wrought by the climate crisis. One of the most pressing challenges is therefore to co-construct these theories and movements with activists and thinkers from the Global South. While some research connecting postgrowth theories with existing environmental justice movements has begun in Latin America and South Asia, almost no research has been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. This project therefore proposes to work on environmental justice movements in Africa using novel participatory methods that engage African activists and scholars. The overall aim is to develop this research into a novel paradigm (post-growth anthropology) which prioritizes decolonial methods. To contribute to this novel paradigm, ethnographic research will be conducted on environmental movements which have challenged growthism and green development in urban and rural Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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3000 Leuven
Belgium
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