http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India. The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tuned in!
In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth. How to live better with less? This novel project enhances new critica...
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...
Von Ulrich Schachtschneider Mit der Degrowth-Bewegung ist ein neuer Stern am Himmel der sozialen Bewegungen erschienen. Doch die traditionelle Linke beobachtet diese Neu-Erscheinung etwas kritisch – ist es doch ein Aufbruch, der auch ohne sie möglich erscheint. Es fehlten die marxistischen, feministischen und antirassistischen Analysen und die entsprechenden Parolen. Wo sie doch kamen, wurden ...
