AbstractRecognizing that continued critique of the hegemonic forces of capital serves to reinforce their dominance, community economies scholars seek to develop a weak theory approach that is open to diverse worldmaking possibilities (Gibson-Graham 2008). However, as calls to decolonise geography and related disciplines proliferate, community economies scholars have recognized the need to more directly attend to racialized and colonial histories and the power configurations that flow from them (e.g. Araujo 2017; Gabriel & Sarmiento 2020; Miller 2019; Naylor & Thayer 2022). Our engagement in making liveable worlds therefore also requires that we contend with more than five hundred years of racialized colonial and imperial violence, a fact that has long been the focus of decolonial scholarship (Naylor & Thayer 2022). Naylor & Thayer (2022) therefore call for diverse economies scholars to engage with decolonial theory in the struggle against capitalism.This session seeks to provide a space for discussion among CERN and non-CERN scholars to discuss how we might engage decolonial theory to develop new language of economic difference that specifically contends with histories of capitalism and white supremacy in the Americas. We will invite scholars from outside CERN who engage with decolonial scholarship to this session for a conversation about how we can balance our collective desires to enact more just and liveable futures with the need to contend with histories of violence and erasures that have led to Eurocentric economic practices. After some initial remarks from invited scholars, we will leave ample time and flexibility for exchange and dialogue among all attendees.
