Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist and author whose work focuses on global inequality, development, ecological economics, and degrowth. He is best known for The Divide and Less Is More, books that have shaped debates on poverty, capitalism, and sustainability and are widely discussed in academic and public policy circles.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Jason Hickel’s work grew out of a biography unusually close to the questions he would later study. Raised in Eswatini, he went on to study anthropology at Wheaton College, earning his bachelor’s degree in 2004, and then completed an MA and PhD in anthropology at the University of Virginia. His doctoral research focused on moral order and political conflict in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and that line of inquiry shaped his first major book, Democracy as Death, a study of anti-liberal politics, colonial histories, and labor struggle in South Africa. ((https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-led-forum-helps-meet-increased-interest-african-studies?utm_source=openai))
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Voix de la Communauté
"Jason Hickel turns growth and development inside out with a radically possible post-growth vision"
— Kate Raworth
"Jason Hickel dispels ecomodernist fantasies of green growth"
— Giorgos Kallis
"With passion and panache, Jason Hickel tells a very different story of why poverty exists"
— Danny Dorling
"Jason Hickel shows how the drive to increase GDP fueled ecological crisis and why degrowth is essential"
— New Scientist
"Jason Hickel takes us on a profound journey through 500 years of capitalism and ecological collapse"
— Alnoor Ladha
"Jason Hickel tears apart the destructive myths surrounding global inequality"
— Raoul Martinez
"Jason Hickel shows that recovering the commons and decolonizing nature are necessary for a common future"
— Vandana Shiva
"Jason Hickel shakes up the prevailing paradigm of development at its root"
— Ha-Joon Chang
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