Buchrezension "Smarte Grüne Welt?" Technologien sind schöne Projektionsflächen. Wie die gute (oder böse) Fee im Märchen verkörpern sie häufig, je nach Sichtweise, entweder die Hoffnung auf eine fast magische Lösung unserer Probleme, oder die Bestätigung unserer Ängste. Eine vorurteilsfreie umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit den gesamtgesellschaftlichen Chancen und Risiken neuer Technologien f...
Why do degrowth scholars use the word "decolonise" to discuss the process of changing the growth imaginary? Isn’t decolonisation about undoing the historical colonisation of land, languages and minds? How do these two uses of the word relate? This blog post is the result from a discussion held between some participants at a Degrowth Summer School in August 2017. While some parts of this blog...
As Vincent Ligey, coordinator of the Budapest Conference organizing team mentioned in the closing plenary, it was an experiment to hold an international degrowth conference in a former socialist country where the soil for degrowth ideas is not particularly fertile. The more it came as a surprise that the conference had received a widespread coverage in Hungarian media. Szandra Koves, press out...
