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Bumika Muchala

Political economist and adjunct professor at The New School; Senior Advisor at Third World Network focused on global economic governance, feminist economics, and decolonial theory.

Jul 6, 2026

88:03
So explain what is a feminist global Green New Deal?
88:09
Absolutely.
88:10
So let's contextualize.
88:12
This is when Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and perhaps several others during the pandemic, well, no, before the pandemic, 2019, they came out with the Green New Deal sort of plan.
88:25
platform or proposal or project, right? The Green New Deal.
88:29
We all remember.
88:29
I think it sort of faded in relevance because now we have, you know, endless wars and other kinds of commodity and oil price shocks that are far overshadowing the kind of more, you know, world-making propositional vision of the Green New Deal.

10 MINS LATER

98:43
Specifically, what can be done to move Africa from an extraction accumulation existence into a regeneration reparation one? And, you know, so what kind of public policy would be needed to end that and just to end global economic inequality as a whole?

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