Gabriela Cabaña

@gcabana.bsky.social

Antropóloga // degrowth, energy, coloniality, new extractivisms, value(s). LSE alumna. Senior researcher at @globalvalueinquiry.bsky.social gabrielacabana.org, https://igvi.org/team/gabriela-cabana/

We are actively recruiting scholars to join our new 4-year research project: "Abundance, Freedom and Limits in Latin America." This is a well-funded, remote position (no need to relocate!) Please check out the CfA and spread the word to anyone you think might be interested. igvi.org/opportunitie...

4 Project Researchers in the "Abundance, Freedom, and Limits" Research Group - IGVI

IGVI is now accepting applications to join a new research group

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Hemos extendido la fecha de postulación hasta el 6 de septiembre. Por favor compartir con potenciales interesadas igvi.org/opportunitie...

4 Project Researchers in the "Abundance, Freedom, and Limits" Research Group - IGVI

IGVI is now accepting applications to join a new research group

igvi.org

Gabriela Cabaña@gcabana.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Desde @globalvalueinquiry.bsky.social estamos buscando investigadoras/os para nuestro nuevo grupo de investigación sobre abundance, libertad y límites igvi.org/opportunitie... para trabajar conmigo durante 4 años

Futuro refletido: por que ler novamente Clóvis Caldeira "Mutirão, puxiron, adjunto, batalhão, adjutório, trabalho mútuo, como queira chamar, é a associação livre do povo para realizar tarefas laborais de forma colaborativa e sem remuneração. +

Futuro refletido: por que ler novamente Clóvis Caldeira.

Com imagem do livro recentemente publicado: Mutirão, ajuda mútua no campo, de Clóvis Caldeira por Teia dos Povos e Glac e Entremares

Esse é o ponto central. A eletrificação via renováveis como tática de diminuição de emissões não pode ser a única tática. Temos que reduzir e recusar usos supérfluos, desnecessários, e aqueles que chegam para aumentar a exploração do trabalhador. E onde aumentamos oferta, que seja para bons usos.

Yuri Albuquerque@yurialbuquerque.dev · 2mo ago

Mesmo que fosse só energia renovável, foda-se, sabe? Essa energia podia estar sendo usada pra coisas melhores do que alimentar o hype do momento. É tipo o pessoal da mineração do Bitcoin. Eles alegam que a quantidade de energia consumida pela mineração não é tão ruim porque as redes investem em

We are recruiting for our Indigenous Governance of Biodiversity project. Scholars focused on indigenous communities in the Amazon, the Andes, or mountainous areas in India or Africa should apply. These are well-funded, 4-year remote positions. Please read and repost the CfA! igvi.org/opportunitie...

4 Project Researchers in the “Indigenous Governance of Biodiversity” Research Group - IGVI

IGVI is recruiting 4 scholar to join the Indigenous Governance of Biodiversity team

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If you're curious about what happened at the first-ever international convening on transitioning away from fossil fuels, please read @ninalakhani.bsky.social's excellent analysis.

Drilled@drilledmedia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Everything you need to know about the #santamarta climate conference, what worked, what didn't, why the process needs to be radically different from other international climate dialogues, and how a human rights frame might get it there. From @ninalakhani.bsky.social drilled.media/news/santa-m...

🔥 La ilusión de un mundo con crecimiento ilimitado está llevando a las personas y a los ecosistemas más allá de sus límites. ¿Y si organizáramos el trabajo, la producción y la riqueza de otra manera, en torno al cuidado, la dignidad y el bienestar colectivo? 🌱✊🏽

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Happy to announce that a new book chapter of mine has been published and it is available open access. As part of a book edited by Dena Freeman on the Global Left, I explore the problems behind articulating sovereignty in ways that mimic imperialists and ignore the planetary boundaries.

First page of article: Faulty State Sovereignty
in the Polycrisis - Arguments for Considering
‘Ecological Sovereignty’ in Left Internationalism

Sabrina Fernandes
Introduction
The debate over sovereignty has long been dominated by the frame of state and
national sovereignty in a competitive capitalist world order. It is a notion mobilised
by states, multilateral institutions and political powers to assert one’s autonomy,
but also dominance. Inter-state competition for resources and to secure a territory
and its borders is intertwined with the ebbs and flows of capital accumulation, so
that, under capitalism, the sovereignty of a national state is hardly ever detached
from the goal of advancing the interests of the national bourgeoisie, domestically
and abroad. Because of this, ‘sovereignty’ is the direct object of imperialist conflict. Imperialism is understood as the geopolitical imposition of one state’s socio-
economic interests over others, and is necessary to capitalism’s thirst for resources,
cheap labour, territorial expansion and the creation of new markets, especially in
times of crisis. The ubiquity of the imperialist threat dictates a rationale of sovereignty based on a game of hierarchies, where one must eat or be eaten.

Mañana comienza el trabajo del grupo Más allá del Extractivismo. Esperamos recibir a casi 100 personas entre viernes y sábado para hablar de esto: ¿Cómo lograr que la transición fuera de los fósiles sea también una superación del extractivismo?

Una slide the power point con letras negras sobre fondo verde lee:

Título: Más allá del extractivismo
Vías para una transición energética justa y acelerada 

Abajo: Pre-Conferencia científica de la Primera Conferencia para la transición más allá de los combustibles fósiles
Santa Marta, Colombia. 24–25 Abril 2026

War and capitalism do "degrowth by disaster". When we speak of the need for selective degrowth by design, just and ecological, it's because a 4-day work week is possible, sovereign access to renewables too, but we're trapped in dependency. Being this vulnerable is a choice of the system.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

21/ Its day eleven. Hormuz is Closed. Fuel is trapped in Persian Gulf. Asian Countries now rationing fuel. – Vietnam told people to WORK FROM HOME because they're running out of fuel – Bangladesh started fuel RATIONING -limits on how much you can pump per vehicle –Asia-wide petrol prices surging