A feminist and decolonial green new deal: principles, paradigms, and systemic transformations. 

A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal (GGND) resists the socially constructed hierarchies of racial, gender, class, caste sexuality and ability based inequalities which underpin colonial, neoliberal, and capitalist structures, systems and discourses. It recognizes that the ecological collapse we are experiencing in climate change is the direct result of an unequal social contract in which these hierarchies shape our social and economic relations. A decolonial stance means that we cannot deny that we live in a world where black, brown, feminine, queer and working-class people endure acts of dehumanization. A feminist and decolonial GGND creates a new paradigm that forges active links between climate change, racialized and gendered labor exploitation, trade rules and economic structures that reproduce inequalities both within and among nations. It is critical for a feminist and decolonial GGND to be global, as no country or region exists in isolation in a world that is inextricably interdependent through trade, human, capital and climate flows. An internationalist, intersectional, global justice and decolonial historical lens and consciousness is indispensable to a future that is ecologically, economically and socially just.
Author(s): Bhumika Muchhala
Date Published: 2021

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