Susan Paulson serves as Professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies, and previously taught sustainability studies at Lund University, Sweden. For 30 years she has studied human-environment relations in Andean and Amazonian territories, 15 of those years living full-time in South America. Paulson analyzes environmental dynamics from local to global scales, with attention to roles played by class, gender and ethnoracial systems. Her delight in conversation across difference and commitment to engaging wide audiences are manifest in invited lectures delivered in 20 countries, and in publication in scholarly journals representing an unusually wide range of disciplines (anthropology, environmental studies, forestry, gender studies, geography, political science). For the past decade, Paulson has been exploring paths toward degrowth in diverse forums, among them Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance. Her most recent book, the co-authored The Case for Degrowth (2020), has been translated into eight languages.
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Susan Paulson shared her story at our Sogeti Summit 2023, for which we gathered some of the most visionary speakers to share their insights around the theme 'Scarcity in Abundance'.