GRIP
GRIP
Jason Hickel, a leading anthropologist and a key theorist of the global de-growth movement, will give the Third Annual GRIP Lecture at the University of Bergen.
In this lecture, supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, he will present his exciting new work on global inequality.
How exactly do dynamics of capital accumulation and unequal exchange in the contemporary world actively prevent development in the global South? How and why are billions of people subjected to needless deprivation? The lecture will show that if we are serious about development in the 21st century this will require clear-eyed strategies and strong movements for achieving economic sovereignty. There is no alternative for delinking from the neo-imperial centers of capital and for implementing eco-socialist policies that will then become possible.
About Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel (born in Eswatini) is professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rodney Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, and the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health.
Jason’s research focuses on political economy, inequality, and ecological economics. His two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020; listed by the Financial Times and New Scientist as a book of the year).
Jason’s ethnographic work focuses on colonialism, anti-colonial struggles and the labor movement in South Africa, which is the subject of his first book, Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa (University of California Press, 2015). He is co-editor of Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014) and Hierarchy and Value: Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order (Berghahn, 2018).
Jason writes regularly for The Guardian and Foreign Policy, as well as Al Jazeera, New Internationalist, and Monthly Review. His media appearances include the BBC World Service, Viewsnight, the Financial Times, Sky News, NPR, and more than 20 podcasts.
Jason holds an ERC Synergy grant for research exploring novel pathways for radical climate mitigation, economic democracy, and post-capitalist transition.
