New Fellow: Susan Paulson

1 October 2024

Photo: Susan Paulson

Susan Paulson is professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies, and previously taught sustainability studies during 10 years in South America and 5 years in Europe. Decades of research on human-environment relations in Andean and Amazonian communities inform her current efforts to mobilize decolonial feminisms and caring masculinities to help forge pleasurable postgrowth societies. Paulson finds motivation in learning with diverse collaborators and public engagement in forums including indigenous leader workshops, executive summits, radio, television, and news outlets ranging from The Economist to Degrowth.info. Her writings include Pluriversal learning: pathways toward a world of many worlds (2019 ); World-making technology entangled with coloniality, racialization, and gender (2024); and the co-authored book The Case for Degrowth (2020), now translated into ten languages.