Gabriela Cabaña is sociologist with an MSc in social anthropology and a PhD in anthropology. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on energy transitions in the context of ecological crises, degrowth and universal basic income.
Gabriela is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Global Value Inquiry, and is in the process of setting up an international research group on non-capitalist forms of abundance as a political value in Latin America.
Last publications and events
New research article: Nuestra casa comienza en Chacao: ecoautoridades, burocracia y transición energética en torno a una carretera eléctrica en Chiloé, Chile
Participation in the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels Conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, April 2026.
Readings for the online course “Decrecimiento. Introducción desde una perspectiva latinoamericana” (2021-2022-2023)
Anthropology And Degrowth: Where To Next?
In 2023, together with Andrea Pia, Lorenzo Velotti and Lucía Muñoz Sueiro, we organised an international workshop on the theme of ‘Anthropology and Degrowth’, attended by over 30 people from various countries. We published some of our findings in this blog post on Undisciplined Environments
