ECO-DEM Project Kicks Off in Bogotá

With Pedro Alarcón‘s workshop, ECO-DEM (Ecological Transitions and Democratic Futures) project was kicked off in Bogotá. The project has been granted cross-hub funding, enabling participants from Bogotá, Cape Town and Colombo to engage in a series of online workshops over the coming months. Culminating in a conference in Cape Town later this year, the initiative will explore energy transitions and political transformations across the Global South.

This South-South collaboration interrogates development, democracy and the ecological transition which subverts eurocentric tendencies in hegemonic development discourses.

The participants in this project are:

Pedro Alarcón (Cape Town), Olivia Arigho Stiles (Bogotá), Alex Dyzenhaus (Cape Town), Rocío Fernández Ugalde (Bogotá), Pooja Kalita (Colombo), Elena Pérez-Lagüela (Cape Town), and Sarah Thompson (Colombo) and Kathy Hochstetler (Advisory Board).