Beyond Development

About Beyond Development :

« The Global Working Group includes around 30 engaged researchers, movement-based organizers, activists and popular educators from all five continents. It is a collective space where people from different disciplines or schools of thought can converge and dialogue, as ecologists, Marxists, decolonial thinkers, feminists, and others. We firmly believe that ‘only-academic’ perspectives derived from Western epistemologies are necessarily incomplete. We therefore need to recognize the paramount value of multiple ways of knowing and civilizational horizons that endure on the margins of capitalist modernity, especially in the global South. This is why we place value on the diversity of our group’s composition—in terms of geographies, cultures, disciplines, and experiences—as an embodiment of the kind of knowledge production and mutual exchanges we advance.

The Working Group is an independent and self-organized collective operating with the voluntary support of its participants and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. We also work with various platforms and initiatives such as the Radical Ecological Democracy, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and others, we generate, collate, and promote systemic, radical, and emancipatory alternatives to the currently dominant system. »