“When you told your friends and family you were going to a degrowth gathering, they asked, ‘What is degrowth?’ How did you respond?” The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with this question. The first day’s thirty-odd attendees wrote their responses on sticky notes as they scraped the last bites of lunch off the dishes the event’s organizers had told them to ...
Was Migration mit imperialer Lebensweise, Degrowth und neuem Internationalismus zu tun hat Eine Auseinandersetzung aus kritischer Perspektive mit Fluchtursachen im globalen Süden ist dringend notwendig und darf nicht dem politischen Establishment überlassen werden. Anstatt jedoch ›Entwicklungshilfe‹ als potentielle Lösung zu sehen, sollte das Paradigma der ›Entwicklung‹ grundlegend problematis...
By Corinna Burkhart Humans get used to quite a lot of things and live their daily life through a set of what we can call habits. Everyday experiences are not much worth a thought as long as everything is like it always is. This can be driving by car to town, only to get stuck in the usual traffic jam, or something very simple like flushing the toilet or using knife and fork to eat a grilled pi...