NOG Masterclass & Book Talk 

On January 13 & 14, 2025, the NOG is organising a book talk and masterclass with Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró (Escola Massana, Autonomous University of Barcelona) on ‘Decolonizing Feminist Futures: What kind of economies do we want?’.

Book Talk: Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures

What are the power dynamics of what we are theorizing as feminist economics, and what changes does it generate? To what extent does it promote control and exploitation, to what extent does it promote radical socio-economic transformation, post-capitalist imaginaries and decolonization? The book takes seriously these questions, not settling for mere criticism, but developing a map for a decolonizing feminist economics approach. In its chapters, the suppression and devaluation of non-modernist and post-capitalist economic knowledges by the dominant economic epistemology is denounced, in addition to investigating feminist and decolonizing tools and proposals around the world to illuminate our hijacked present and to imagine a decolonizing feminist economic landscape that is under transformation.

The book talk will be a conversation between Gisela, Kathrin Thiele, and Ana Maria Miranda Mora. The book talk will be moderated by Adriano Habed

Masterclass: Decolonizing Feminist Futures: What kind of economies do we want?

This masterclass will explore the imagination as an economic faculty. Imagination is understood here not as an individual capacity, but a social, common practice, creating relationships of meaning. What can imagination be, as a practice of decolonizing feminist economic transformation, in conditions of growing crisis and isolation?

With the aim of addressing this question, this masterclass invites the participants to imagine new, better economies and to vindicate shared feminist futures looking at the projects of post-extractivism, ecofeminism and post-growth/degrowth from a decolonizing feminist perspective.

The participants will be encouraged to share their research, practices and interests. Together, we will create space for confabulative  dialogues activating feminist imaginaries of the future in the present.

Suggested reading*:

  • Carrasco-Miró, G. 2025. Glossary for confabulating futures. Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

* The text will be made available upon registration

Gisela Carrasco-Miró holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Utrecht University and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. With over eighteen years of experience, she has served as a gender policy advisor and researcher for several international organizations, including UN Women, UNDP, WHO, UNEP, SIDA, GIZ, and Global Humanitaria, as well as grassroots movements across North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Balkans.

Gisela has taught post/decolonial and feminist issues, focusing on critical and decolonizing development, environmental justice, imagination, and feminist economics at universities such as UNAM (Mexico), Cambridge University (UK), and American University (Washington, D.C.). As a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Central European University (Vienna), she developed and taught the courses “Decolonising Development” and “Feminist Economics”. Additionally, she created the postgraduate course “Feminist Epistemologies, Culture and Economics: Dialogues with Africa and Asia from a Decolonising Perspective” at UNAM and co-coordinated the “Decolonising the Gender and Economics Curriculum” Global South Series at American University.

Her research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and policy reports, and she has participated in artistic residencies such as BAK-basis voor actuele kunst in the Netherlands and Faber Humanities-Science-Art and Konvent in Spain. Currently, she is the Principal Researcher on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion at Includovate and lecturer on feminisms, decolonial thought, and ecologies at Escola Massana at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her book, Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures, is set to be published by Bristol University Press in March 2025.

(R)MA and PhD students are eligible to receive 2 ECTS for active participation in both the masterclass and the lecture as well as for writing a 1000-words (max.) entry of the glossary that will be discussed during the masterclass. 

Booktalk 13 January

Location & Time: Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Grote Zaal/Theatre Room, Utrecht University. 17:30-1900h.
Registration: send an email to nog@uu.nl with ‘registration book talk Decolonizing Feminist Futures’ as the subject line. Registration closes Friday, December 20, 17:00h.

Masterclass 14 January

Location & Time: Drift 25, room 206, Utrecht University. 10:15-12:30h.
Registration: send an email to nog@uu.nl with ‘registration Masterclass Decolonizing Feminist Futures’ as the subject line. Registration closes Friday, December 20, 17:00h.