Dialogues for Degrowth. Transdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures, edited by Ksenija Hanaček, Marula Tsagkari and Brototi Roy, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 235 pp., £110.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-0353-207

It was a genuine pleasure to discover, at the very beginning of the book, the moving dedication offered to women by the three editors and young migrant researchers (Ksenija Hanaek, Marula Tsagkari and Brototi Roy).I embrace this gesture of gratitude, since women, past and present, play a fundamental role as custodians of social, cultural and intellectual legacies that illuminate our path and open the way for new generations.The editors place transmission, solidarity and heritage at the very heart of their work; reaffirming the vital role of women in our societies as guardians of traditions, pillars of family life, and guarantors of national identity.In Morocco, a country renowned for its gastronomy, this heritage endures thanks to women who, with patience and courage, have resisted the dominance of fast food in order to preserve the art of shared meals built around local produce, accessible to all and rich in social meaning.Arpita Bisht in Chapter 13 (pp.165-174) places food at the centre of the reflection on degrowth.Food is not only a matter of biological survival: it is intimately connected with culture, identity and social bonds.Yet contemporary food systems, shaped by colonial legacies, reproduce exploitation, unequal exchange and land grabbing, locking entire communities into debt and dependency.These logics remain inseparable from global capitalism, with its model of cheap food that sustains worker exploitation and the expansion of consumerism.Bisht draws here on the theory of food regimes: from European colonialism and its massive exports, to American agro-industrial dominance after 1945, and finally to contemporary neoliberalism, now disguised as "green capitalism".Bisht demonstrates that food is also a political instrument: withholding it can make it a tool of oppression, as in Gaza, but it can also be a lever of resistance and sovereignty, embodied by movements such as La Via Campesina, which defend local production, social justice and agroecology.When women are present, memory is preserved.Where they have been excludedas in the prestigious crafts of Fez, confined within male guildsknowledge has been lost, weakened by oblivion and mere commerce.Where women have always acted, as in the art of sewing and the Natural Built Social Environment Health