RADICAL ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND COMMUNITY-BASED PATHWAYS TO SOCIOECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
Annotatsiya
Radical Ecological Economics (REE) provides a more suitable framework for engaging and collaborating with communities in the Global South. Unlike conventional Ecological Economics, it expands both conceptual and methodological perspectives by
incorporating social realities that are often overlooked despite their continued existence and resistance worldwide. The approach emphasizes three key dimensions. First, it broadens the concept of the social beyond a purely human-centered perspective, recognizing complex systems of organization, cultural and biological reproduction, identity formation, and struggles for autonomy led by revolutionary communitarian actors in response to historical forms of oppression. Second, it acknowledges the existence of socio-economic systems where resources and goods are not primarily allocated through market mechanisms. In these contexts, production is embedded within social relations, surpluses are generated and distributed in both material and non-material forms for the benefit of human and nonhuman communities, and socioecological processes are guided by longstanding worldviews that respect ecological limits. Third, REE is grounded in distinct ontological, epistemological, methodological, and political principles that embrace diverse realities and ways of knowing. As a result, it offers a comprehensive framework for understanding alternative social and ecological systems developed by long-standing communities that seek to create sustainable futures beyond the capitalist model while addressing the multiple crises affecting their societies.
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