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About Sara al Mahdi

Sara Al Mahdi is a degrowth researcher, political ecologist and human rights activist whose work links politics, economics, and economy to confront genocide, inequality, and social injustice. She's trained in environment and development anthropology with a current focus on degrowth policies via her graduate studies at ICTA-Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

Decolonisation • 17.10.2025

Delinking Global South from Global North: Political Strategies for Disrupting the Globalized World Order

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By: Sara al Mahdi

Formed in the wake of the International Degrowth Conference 2024 in Pontevedra—following an intervention by Luisa Emilia Reyes Zúñiga - the Delinking & Degrowth Collective convenes organisers, scholars, practitioners, and learners from around the world, within and beyond the degrowth community. Meeting monthly and coordinating via a shared WhatsApp hub, the collective uses leverage from wit...