Decolonizing Economics Summit 2023
The 4th Annual Post-Capitalism Conference
April 20, 2023, 12:00 PM to April 22, 2023, 5:00 PM EDT
Online Location
Next System Studies at Mason is thrilled to join as an anchor of the this year's Decolonizing Economics Summit:
For the last three years, the Post-Capitalism Conference has brought together organizers, academics, leaders, students, workers, artists, and creators, to imagine a world beyond ecological, economic, social and political crisis. Each year we have committed ourselves to foster a space that challenges us, strengthens our work, and celebrates those who are committed to transformative change.
With the explicit focus on decolonizing economics, we ask ourselves and each other: What does this path look like? Is it as Audre Lorde professed in 1979: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”? What are the ways in which “decolonizing” movements mobilize and rely upon these “master’s tools”? What are the consequences of relying upon these tools (financial/monetary instruments, laws, policies, institutions, technologies, materials, logics, etc.) for “decolonization,” and how do these ultimately reproduce colonial systems and conditions? With these questions in mind, we invite you to participate in a gathering where we lovingly and joyfully imagine the world where we want to live.
Anchored by the Wiyot Tribe’s Dishgamu Community Land Trust, several Cal Poly Humboldt faculty and departments, Cooperation Jackson, Democracy at Work, Green Eco-Socialist Network, Native Roots Network, New Economy Coalition, the US Solidarity Economy Network, CA CLT Network, Solidarity Research Center, CA Public Banking Alliance, Full Spectrum Capital, Cal Trout, Transition US, Next System Studies at Mason, and a growing network of additional partners, this 3-day virtual conference serves as a space to exchange experiences and information, strengthen alliances and networks, and to devise strategies to decenter colonial systems and implement concrete solutions to heal the land and people. Over 1,000 people participated in the 2022 Summit, and we expect even more in 2023!
