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In this episode of Reframe, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, general coordinator of Progressive International, asks political economist Jason Hickel if today’s conflicts are a…
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Western politicians and journalists often claim that China is doing “colonialism” in Africa. This narrative has roots in US government discourse going…
The concept of delinking has gained traction recently among some political movements in the global South, including with an international conference in…
Jason Hickel, a leading anthropologist and a key theorist of the global de-growth movement, gives the GRIP Annual Lecture 2025 at the…
In this episode, I’m joined by economic anthropologist Jason Hickel, author of The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets (W.W. Norton, 2018),…
Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode…
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