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Scientific paper • 2014

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A historical exploration of ruralist ideology in Spain and its importance for the degrowth and democracy debate

By: Santiago Gorostiza

degrowth, autonomy, democracy, fascism, ruralism, Spain

Scientific paper • 2014

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Getting to Postgrowht: The Transformative Power of Paradigm Shifts

By: Maja Goepel

Abstract: Humans create stories about why they are here, what the purpose of this journey is and how to relate to their human and natural environment. These stories rest on some core ideas that feed into the common language and sense-making that people apply when engaging in collaboration, the design of institutions or legitimization of domination. Looking at what the story of neoclassical econ...

Scientific paper • 2014

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The power of neighborhood – rethinking the way of life within co-housing projects in Switzerland

By: Sanna Frischknecht

Abstract: Focusing on the question of how people live and interact, co-housing projects, such as “Kraftwerk1”, “Nena1” and others attempt to withdraw imperatives of growth by establishing a new way of life in urban contexts. Some of the projects are closely connected to the ideas of an urban utopia “bolo’bolo” which was written by P.M. in the 1980ies. This ideal of a new way of life describes a...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

GDP; power; war; markets; economists; globalization

Scientific paper • 2014

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Degrowth and the domination of nature

By: Arianna Ferrari

Abstract: Despite the fact that degrowth theorists offer different analyses of the concept of nature, they share the belief that it is necessary to overcome the idea of a strict divide between subject (the human being) and object (the environment). They challenge the belief in technological progress as providing solutions to any problem, promote a social, fair and ecological perspective and typ...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Peoples Sustainability Treaties: A Platform for a Common Narrative, Agenda and Movement

By: Uchita de Zoysa

Abstract: Given the inequities and unsustainability of the present model of development, the world needs profound transformations in the fundamental values and organizing principles of society. The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy of the global polity as an outer layer of the nested system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places, and to build the processes of democratic gl...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Changing Perspectives in Eastern Europe

By: Brian Davey

Abstract: Western Europe and the USA have held themselves up as models to be followed by the countries of Eastern Europe - democratic countries run according to the rule of law, with market based consumer societies, privatised key sectors and focused on economic growth. Joining the European Union and learning how to be like the "successful" western economies has been seen as Central and Eastern...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Growth, Domination and Democracy. Shortcomings of the (De-)Growth Debate

By: Ulrich Brand

degrowth, domination, democracy, Marxism, feminism

Scientific paper • 2014

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De-growth as Counter-Hegemony? Lessons from Turkey

By: Bengi Akbulut, Prof Fikret Adaman, Murat Arsel, Duygu Avci

Abstract: That degrowth agenda has not taken an explicit stance vis-à-vis the organization of the economic relations has been a point of sharp criticism, especially regarding the viability of a degrowth trajectory. While the critiques have predominantly emphasized the material role of economic growth in the reproduction of capitalist relations of production, we argue that the notion of growth a...

Scientific paper • 2013

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From economism to autonomy: A Greek economic emergency and the transformative vision of degrowth

By: Panos Petridis

Economism, autonomy, Greece, crisis, democracy, degrowth, transformation

• 2013

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Rotes Grün

By: Hans Thie

Der Verlag: »Grüner Kapitalismus« ist kompatibel mit den Mächtigen, sorgt für das Flair ökologischer Modernität. Aber er ist keine Antwort, wenn es um fundamentale Zukunftsfragen geht. Wer Ökologie für alle will, muss die Wirtschaftsordnung ändern. Sattes Grün verlangt kräftiges Rot. Strom nur mit Sonne und Wind, neuen Speichern und intelligenten Netzen. Kaum noch Autos in den Innenstädten. ...

Scientific paper • 2012

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From economism to autonomy: a value reading of the "Greek crisis"

By: Panos Petridis

Abstract: The density of events over the last years, together with the continuous scaremongering from the dominant political and media circles, has put the Greek society into an informal “economic state of exception”. Austerity measures and neoliberal policies such as large scale privatisations, under the name of “reform” or “modernisation” are presented as a painful but necessary evil and a va...

Scientific paper • 2012

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Grabbing of natural resources and environmental justice: breaking the circle

By: Annalisa Stagni, Mani Tese

Abstract: The consumption pattern in the north requires an intensive exploitation of natural resources in the south of the world, making some countries totally depending from the sale of their natural resources. The global north needs to stop consumption without limits of our environment and people must be aware that these limits exist, due to the finiteness of our world. Our lifestyles have a ...

Scientific paper • 2012

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Permaculture proposals and tools for degrowth process in the fields of rural work and agriculture in Brazil

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre e Jacques Dias

Keywords : Work, hunger, poverty, Industrial farming, Permaculture, autonomy

Scientific paper • 2012

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Building a collective sense of responsibility to redefine the concept of justice

By: Jean-Louis Aillon, Elena Dal Santo

Abstract: In 2000, 189 nations committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, namely a promise to free people from extreme poverty and deprivations. Unfortunately, UN reports and estimates show that MDGs are far from being achieved. Although the objectives are certainly ambitious, the lack of improvements in the basic life conditions of the world population is strictly connected to t...

Report • 2012

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Atlas der Globalisierung - Die Welt von morgen

By: Le Monde Diplomatique

Wer bekommt die Seltenen Erden aus China? Mit wem verbünden sich die aufstrebenden Mächte des Südens? Was machen die Neonazis in Europa? Welche Folgen hat der Landraub für Afrika? Wie verändert der Drogenkrieg die Machtverhältnisse in Mittelamerika? Wann kommt der Happy Planet Index für das gute Leben? Antworten auf diese und ander wichtige Fragen von morgen gibt der neue Atlas der Globalisier...

• 2012

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Schatten über dem Kongo - Die Geschichte eines der großen, fast vergessenen Menschheitsverbrechen

By: Adam Hochschild

Die Geschichte des Kongo um die Jahrhundertwende ist eine Geschichte von Blut und Gewalt. Getrieben von der Gier nach Geld, Macht und Ruhm, brachte König Leopold II. von Belgien den Kongo 1885 in seinen Privatbesitz. In der Folgezeit ließ er das Land mit auch für damalige Verhältnisse beispielloser Grausamkeit ausbeuten und plündern. Geiselnahme, Vergewaltigung, Mißhandlung und Mord waren di...

• 2012

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ABC der Alternativen 2.0

By: Ulrich Brand, Bettina Lösch, Benjamin Opratko, Stefan Thimmel

»Es geht ... um die Kritik und Veränderung bestehender Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse, die Alternativen dazu sind jedoch vielfältig, müssen praktisch entstehen, stehen teilweise in Spannungen zueinander. Die Ausrichtung von Alternativen kann am Staat orientiert, staatskritisch oder anti-staatlich sein, vom Anspruch her oder in der Praxis systemimmanent oder System transformierend. Ökologisc...

Interview • 2012

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Creating Culture

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Janice Harvey

[ Janice Harvey // Creating Culture ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Janice Harvey made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Janice Harvey talks about culture and what it is. It is pre-reflective, it gives a frame for what people live in, for taking decisions etc.. Further she talks about how culture can change.

Scientific paper • 2012

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Growth and democracy: Trade-offs and paradoxes

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

Abstract: The present paper attempts to reveal the relationships between some long-run systemic processes (on the economic, ecological, social and symbolic levels) and the theme of democracy. Starting from the distinction between democracy and autonomy, the paper focusses on its main issue: the trade-off between growth and autonomy. Continual growth can be produced, and indeed has been produced...