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The next Spaces Beyond Growth: Municipal Degrowth Network webinar event will take place on Wednesday 28th May from 9:00-10:30 CEST.
This will be a space to have a discussion on Feminist Municipalism: Local care politics in Grenoble, Hernani and Graz. The speakers Rivka Saltiel, a researcher at the University of Graz, Coline Chardon, a researcher at the University of Freiburg , and Xabier Lertxundi, mayor of Hernani (Basque country) will present their perspectives on local care politics in Graz, Grenoble, and Hernani.
In a recent post, a group of authors expressed their concerns that degrowth risks being lost in pluralism and argued for the need to co-produce a mix of context-sensitive strategies. I believe this re-stirring of the debate on strategy in the degrowth movement is both relevant and timely. While I agree with many of the authors’ concerns, and proposals, I would here like to propose a somewhat di...
According to German columnist Georg Diez, the violation of democratic processes in the wake of the financial crisis in 2007/2008 was an epochal break comparable to the great depression and the developments thereafter. One reason for the increase in racism and rise of the radical right, he writes, is also the helplessness of the left faced with the increasing numbers of people who feel abandon...
Attempts to integrate economics and ecology have been based on one of three strategies: (1) economic imperialism; (2) ecological reductionism; (3) steady-state subsystem. Each strategy begins with the picture of the economy as a subsystem of the finite ecosystem. Thus all three recognize limits to growth. The differences concern the way they each treat [...]
