Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures (Decolonization and Social Worlds)

Carrasco-Miró, Gisela

ISBN 10: 1529236487 / ISBN 13: 9781529236484

Published by Bristol University Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures (Decolonization and Social Worlds)
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529236487
• ISBN 13: 9781529236484
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Despite the urgency to understand how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West' in academic and political spheres, feminist economics has yet to tackle critiques from postcolonial and decolonial feminists about Western-centric modernism in the field.

This book introduces a decolonizing approach to feminist economics, offering insights that move beyond the boundaries of modern Eurocentrism. The author explores the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, heteropatriarchy and ecological degradation, while offering critical feminist and decolonizing tools. By investigating global struggles, the author illuminates our hijacked present and imagines a decolonizing feminist economic landscape that is under transformation.

Transdisciplinary and innovative, this book fills a vital gap by exploring the interplay between decolonization and feminist economics, challenging the growth logic, capitalism and Western-centrism, and imagining new possibilities for more just futures.

About the Author

Gisela Carrasco-Miró is lecturer in Feminisms, Ecology and Post/decolonial Thought at Escola Massana, Autonomous University of Barcelona, within the Critical and Cultural Studies Programme. She also conducts international research on gender, economic and ecological justice for various organizations worldwide. Gisela holds a PhD in Gender and Postcolonial Studies from the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (Utrecht University) and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. With over 18 years of experience, she has collaborated directly with social and feminist movements, environmental leaders, governments, local communities, Indigenous peoples, NGOs, artists and international development organizations across North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Western Balkans. Gisela has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Central European University (Vienna) and as a guest lecturer at American University, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Cambridge University. She is the author of numerous international reports, peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters, and her work has been selected in research-art residencies such as the Southern Summer School/Residency: Decolonialization at BAK in the Netherlands and the Konvent Residency The Word for World is Forest in Catalonia, Spain.