Thank you for your interest in collaborating with us! Before submitting your text to us, please consider a few things about our blog, our readers, and our style.
Degrowth.info is one of the most prominent online spaces sharing information on degrowth with a public audience. Our blog communicates the diversity of degrowth happening across the world, expanding debates around the concept beyond the academic sphere. We give space and visibility to struggles for social and ecological transformation that align with degrowth principles, even if they don’t use the term, seeking to learn and take inspiration from them. We strive to platform voices that are often less heard in the degrowth movement, such as those from the Global South.
Our main audiences are the existing degrowth movement, political allies, and newcomers. We welcome writing that presents concepts and arguments in a way that's understandable to someone who has never read a paper about degrowth, or even heard of it. We seek pieces that connect degrowth principles to case studies, personal stories, political strategy, grassroots movements, and current events. Critiques of degrowth that can constructively shape the development of the movement are also encouraged.
When writing your text – be it an informative, opinion piece or something else – keep in mind that our target audience, i.e. the readers we are catering to, are mainly students, activists, people who are politically involved and journalists searching for information. Use vocabulary that is informal and colloquial rather than academic and complicated: imagine you are having a conversation and use words that you would use when you speak. We are not an academic blog, nor a lifestyle publication; we navigate in between those two worlds building a bridge between academia and everyday practice. Lastly, we aim to foster participation and active engagement, so we invite you to add calls to action for the readers where appropriate.
Some additional details to consider before submitting:
Note that we publish all blog contributions under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license. This means that your blog post may be reproduced elsewhere and/or adapted (for example translated), with the only restrictions that it cannot be for commercial use, and that the original publication must referenced.
We are a mainly volunteer-run association and are usually not in a position to offer financial compensation for blog posts. However, we currently have a limited budget allocated to covering a few blog posts. If your ability to write a blog post depends on financial compensation, please get in touch with us and will be happy to talk about your needs.
Please email your submissions to blog@degrowth.info. We look forward to reading them!
We hope to confirm receipt of your pitch within two weeks, but we evaluate blog pitches' suitability for publication on a monthly cycle, so don't worry if you don't hear from us straight away.
