Activities for Principle#5

Level of complexity: Medium

Estimated time: 3 hours

• Ask participants to watch or explore one or more of the following or similar materials in advance:
• Tawai: A Voice from the Forest (2017) (external link) - Indigenous philosophies and critiques of Western individualism.
• Explore resources from the South Feminist Knowledge Hub (external link) and Vikalp Sangam (external link) (Alternatives Confluence)
• Selected chapters: Demaria, F., Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., & Acosta, A. (2023). Post-development: From the Critique of Development to a Pluriverse of Alternatives. In The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology: A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier (pp. 59-69). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Divide participants into small groups based on the resource they explored.
• Ask each group to discuss:

• What cultural practices, forms of knowledge, or ways of living are presented?
• What values underpin these practices?
• How do they challenge dominant paradigms of growth or development? 

• Each group briefly presents their insights to the larger group.

Level of complexity: Medium

Estimated time: 2 hours

• Facilitate a session where the group collaboratively creates a map (physical or digital) of diverse practices, movements, or communities around the world that embody sustainable, post-growth ways of living.
• Reflect collectively: What did you learn from these diverse perspectives?
• Discuss in plenary the challenges and possibilities of resisting growth dependencies through alternatives to development.