This chapter is an invitation to reflect on progressive alternatives to development in the Global South. It advocates a post-pandemic turn to the principles of reciprocity, solidarity, and care as expressed in the politics of degrowth. To this aim, it first reassesses Amartya Sen’s development ethic to repoliticize economic growth. It further engages Karl Polanyi’s embeddedness approach to imagine and advance a degrowth-based society. Finally, it suggests that post-pandemic development needs to be grounded in a relational ontology. By drawing both on political theory and political economy, as well as on existing degrowth practices, the chapter shows that an emerging alternative world is not only utopian but real.