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 am in the process of setting up an international research group on non-capitalist forms of abundance in Latin America.
Last publications and events
Green extractivism in Colombia: A scoping review on indigenous rights and livelihood impacts, and policy and social movement responses (2026) – Gabriela Cabaña y Katharina Richter
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
