Yoshihiro Nakano

https://postcapitalism.jp/index/english/ The areas of specialisation are social philosophy and critical development studies, especially history of global development, politics of development discourses, and grassroots alternatives. Dr. Nakano’s research consists of two parts: (1) history, political economy, and biopolitics of global development and (2) global intellectual history of anti-productivist social theories and epistemologies of the south. The first research area examines unsustainable nature of global capitalism in late modernity or the Anthropocene with a particular focus on the history of development and globalisation. The second area explores systemic alternatives to globalisation, investigating diverse grassroots social innovations. Dr. Nakano is particularly interested in the evolution of anti-productivist social theories in the Global North and the Global South, especially the diversity of their cultural roots and the process of dissemination, reception and translation among different cultural and linguistic universes. His research covers postdevelopment, degrowth, social and solidarity economies, the Gandhian economics, feminist economics, the economics of happiness, community economy and commons. Recently his research examines the evolution of Japanese theory of postdevelopment and degrowth in the context of global intellectual history. Dr. Nakano is an instigator of degrowth and convivialism in Japan and publishes the Japanese translation of French, Spanish, Italian and English literature in the related field. The past collaborators include Serge Latouche, Jean-Louis Laville, Alain Caillé, Marc Humbert, Stefano Bartolini, Florance Jany-Catrice, José Luis Coraggio, Arturo Escobar, Ernesto Laclau and others.

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