The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
.Should arguments for degrowth be anthropocentric or ecocentric? And what does this mean in practice? There is an interesting discussion going on, starting with two recent court rulings in New Zealand and India about rivers being granted personal rights. We present an article by Ashish Kothari, Mari Margil and Shrishtee Bajpai, first published for The Guardian. Several geographically-distan...
Degrowth has been described as a “movement” rather than an ideology1, and as such it presents several variations. For some of its proponents, degrowth is a proxy for sustainable consumption, and to a lesser extent production2. A second group of degrowth advocates are those for whom an emerging discussion of “sufficiency” as a societal norm is taking shape, as a result of activism3. Finally, a t...
Die Grenzen der Megamaschine von Kontext-TV Nach mehrjähriger Recherchearbeit hat Kontext-TV-Redakteur Fabian Scheidler sein Buch "Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation" vorgestellt. David Goeßmann sprach mit ihm über die Ursprünge des kapitalistischen Weltsystems, die ersten Aktiengesellschaften, die Zusammenhänge zwischen Geldökonomie und Krieg, über den...
