In this interview, conducted at the historic Café Le Metro in Paris, Serge Latouche—a foundational thinker in degrowth—explores the often-overlooked relationship between anthropology and degrowth. The idea of conducting this interview emerges from co-teaching an anthropology course, where we identified a gap in addressing Latouche’s anthropological foundations. Although he has frequently highlighted anthropology’s role in conceptualizing degrowth, his personal reflections on this connection remain underexamined. Drawing on his intellectual and life experiences, Latouche offers some provocative ideas on this relationship, as well as on the degrowth movement and literature at large. This dialogue responds to a growing academic interest in this intersection, illustrated by recent events such as the Anthropology and Degrowth seminar at the London School of Economics (Cabaña et al., 2023a, 2023b) and publications like Degrowth and Anthropology in the Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology (Paulson et al., 2024).
Lucía Muñoz-Sueiro a,* and Miquel Figueras Moreu b
a Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain
b Anthropology Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
* Corresponding author
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