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World-making technology entangled with coloniality, race and gender: Ecomodernist and degrowth perspectives

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  • Susan Paulson

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Impelled by the intertwined expansion of capitalist institutions and fossil-fueled industry, human activity has made devastating impacts on ecosystems and earth systems. The colonial, class, racial, and gender systems that coevolved with these historical processes have long been critiqued for engineering exploitation and inequality. Yet the technologies with which these systems interact are widely portrayed as neutral and nonpartisan. This paper interrogates the purported independence of technology on two fronts. First, it uses a political ecology lens to illuminate some ways in which the generation and application of technology have been historically entangled with colonial, racial, and gender systems. Second, it considers how those entanglements have been variously obscured, acknowledged, depoliticized, and/or politicized in two realms of thought and practice: ecomodernism and degrowth. Conclusions call for bringing creative innovation of ecomodernism together with degrowth commitment to just social–ecological transformation.

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  • Susan Paulson, 2024. "World-making technology entangled with coloniality, race and gender: Ecomodernist and degrowth perspectives," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(1), pages 71-89, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:33:y:2024:i:1:p:71-89
    DOI: 10.1177/09632719231209741
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