This presentation will be an overview of critical analyses of the polycrisis (ranging from intersectional feminism to critical scholarship in international relations from the Global South) and their implications for doing development differently.
Contribution long abstract
The global polycrisis reawakened debates around the limitations of our current mode of development. While conventional accounts of the polycrisis assert that business as usual can continue if we implement a few technical tweaks, a wide range of alternative perspectives of the polycrisis recognise that what is needed for sustainable development is nothing short of systemic transformation.
This presentation will explore critical accounts of the polycrisis across three main dimensions: social reproduction, global capitalism and its institutions, and multiple intersecting systems of oppression. By exploring these perspectives, we can begin to understand how we could do development differently. They highlight that genuine development must recognise the dependence of the economy on the environment and on the care sector, challenge existing power relations in the global system, uncover systems of oppression and learn from the perspectives of those most affected, and acknowledge an draw on diverse forms of knowledge.