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In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Asmaa Elmalky speaks with Mariona Bonsfills Clotet about ecofeminism as a project of economic democracy, collective emancipation, and degrowth transformation.
Mariona reflects on growing up on an organic farm in the Catalan Pyrenees and later organizing within labor and political advocacy spaces. She explains how feminism transformed her understanding of value, labor, and whose voices count in history.
From that experience, ecofeminism became a way to rethink both economic systems and everyday political participation.
Together, Asmaa and Mariona discuss the sidelined memories of women during the Spanish Civil War. They also reflect on how to challenge the myth of endless economic growth and confront the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism. This conversation shows that feminism and ecology are not side issues. Instead, they are central to restructuring economies around the maintenance of life.
The episode also becomes a call for mass participation and transnational organizing. At the same time, it defends the radical belief that everyone, regardless of background, is a legitimate political actor.
Mariona Bonsfills Clotet (interviewee) is an ecofeminist researcher, labour unionist, and organizer from Catalonia. She is part of Research & Degrowth and an activist working on ruralism and the transition toward an ecosocialist future.
Asmaa Elmalky (interviewer) is a feminist environmental lawyer from Egypt. She holds a Master’s degree in International and Comparative Law from The American University in Cairo and is Head of Research at the Egyptian Foundation for Environmental Rights.
This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative. It uses a chain-interview format to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles.
Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre. Find out more at degrowth.org
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