{"id":980,"date":"2019-12-07T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/sustainable-global-society\/?p=980"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:02:57","slug":"why-a-green-new-deal-must-be-decolonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/why-a-green-new-deal-must-be-decolonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217; must be decolonial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Discussions of a Green New Deal (GND) have been all the rage these days, as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets around the world to demand action on climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for the GND to work and, indeed, transform the economy and our lives, it must be decolonial. This means, its application must go hand in hand with a concerted effort to rethink relationships to land, labour, and our collective imaginaries\u00a0from the structural and historic injustices of Western-style development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><em>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/green-deal-decolonial-191202134707310.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"opinion article (opens in a new tab)\">opinion article<\/a> on Al Jazeera.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green New Deal will not work unless it dismantles neocolonial structures exploiting nature and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"coauthors":[161],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/iob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}