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By: Peter Bierl

Aus dem Artikel: . . . Die Degrowth-Bewegung versteht sich mehrheitlich als links, die meisten Vertreter grenzen sich nach rechts ab, gegen Alain de Benoist, einen Vordenker der sogenannten Neuen Rechten, oder den konservativen Meinhard Miegel, der unter dem Deckmantel des Postwachstums den Sozialabbau vorantreiben will. Dennoch gibt es Positionen in der Bewegung, die nach rechts tendieren oder...

By: Sam Bliss, Aaron Vansintjan

We’re not trying to sound nice. Take your positivity and shove it.

By: Rowan Alcock

From my research on Degrowth China is conspicuous in its absence. Degrowth theory, in order to be a global movement, should begin to research this increasingly important country in more detail. People may believe that one of the world's biggest environmental polluters where multiparty elections are illegal could not possibly have an indigenous degrowth movement. However in my paper I argue that...

By: Joanna Boehnert

This project will provide an overview of the degrowth movement. I will do this by visualising the degrowth discourse along with other environment discourses on a matrix. I will use surveys and discourse mapping techniques. I will start by constructing a short survey to collect opinions within the degrowth community on discourses in environmental movements. The survey will identify 100 global ac...

By: Josefa Kny

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Stiftung FUTURZWEI geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei ...

By: Alex Jensen

A thorough and detailed overview of the socioeconomic situation in India and the extent to which the Degrowth discourse can be extended in countries beyond the Global North. The speaker explores the aftermath of the neoliberalization of India: from GDP and billionaires growth to the extreme wealth gap alongside increasing inequality, unemployment, extreme air pollution, fossil fuels consumption...

By: Irmi Salzer, Julianna Fehlinger

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um ernährungssouveränität geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei...

By: Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey answers questions about the current state of the degrowth movement, degrowth in Eastern Europe and about the European Union. From the text: These days, the degrowth movement is not interested in provocation anymore. Instead it wants to stimulate discussions amongst the people who believe that it is possible to decolonise our minds. Vincent Liegey, the coordinator of the latest...

By: Aaron Vansintjan

Over a year ago I lived in Barcelona, where I was lucky enough to witness a social movement—in large part fuelled by cooperatives, squats, and other autonomous spaces—win the mayoral elections. I had spent the year being involved with a group that studies and advocates ‘degrowth’—the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable society, and that we therefore m...

By: Ludivine Damay, Anne Guisset

In different cities around the world, one can find a lot of citizen initiatives that propose alternatives to the main consumerist and capitalist logic of production and consumption (Pleyers, 2011). They defend other conceptions of society through cooperative, networks for exchanging goods and services, collective vegetable gardens, “repair cafés”, local currencies, etc. This communication is ...

By: Marco Fioretti

Digital Do-It-Yourself (DiDIY) is a set of DIY activities and mindsets made possible by the availability of low cost software, digital communication networks and digital fabrication devices. Today, the most popular examples of DiDIY are 3D printing and the “Makers Movement”. DiDIY, however, is a much bigger phenomenon, with potentially huge effects on the economy and the environment. So far, t...

By: Brototi Roy

From the text: The context for a degrowth movement in India differs significantly from that of the Global North. Although founded upon the same philosophical, and ideological basis, the differences in scope between the two are sharp. For India, what is of central importance is the preservation of the “degrowth” paradigm in practice, rather than the establishment of it as a novel paradigm. Tradi...

By: Miklós Antal

Language use and cognition are generally underappreciated topics in alternative economics, even if effective communication is essential for social and political impact. To challenge the economic growth paradigm, the concept and term degrowth has recently been embraced by various activists and scholars. Drawing on a body of evidence from cognitive science, psychology and related fields, we argue...

By: Jan C. Zoellick

Degrowth is a conglomerate of several streams of thought offering a variety of sometimes conflicting positions (Demaria et al., 2013). Some of these tensions smoulder inexplicitly below the surface of celebrated diversity. This proposal explicates the tension between conservative and reformist approaches on the one hand and revolutionary approaches driving for fundamental change on the other ha...

By: Andreas Michael Giselbrecht, Stephanie Ristig-Bresser

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei...

By: Christiane Kliemann

Herausgeber_innen: Was kann die Degrowth-Bewegung von anderen sozialen Bewegungen lernen? Was können diese wiederum voneinander und von Degrowth lernen? Und wie können alle besser zusammenarbeiten? In dem Multimediaprojekt »Degrowth in Bewegung(en)« gehen Vertreter von Initiativen diesen Fragen nach. Christiane Kliemann untersucht den möglichen Beitrag der Ökodorf-Bewegung.

By: Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Degrowth was first used and find its roots in the 1970s debate of the limits to growth. At the beginning of the 2000s it was launched as a slogan by activists, and in the following decade turned into a frame for a social movement as well as a concept debated in academia. Although its origins have been traced (Demaria et al 2013), two main issues remain contested and in need of clarification: 1)...

By: Nicholas A. Ashford

Keywords: degrowth; sustainable consumption; sustainable production; inequality; sustainability; employment

By: Fabrice Flipo

Presentation by Fabrice Flipo Political prayers lie on the growth’s comeback to ensure financial incomes to be given out. That for science is seen by many essentially as a tool to provide techniques able to raise productivity, whatever the environmental or social consequences. For those reasons, and especially since the second half of the 20th century, public policy and investment have allowed...

By: Nimmo Bassey, Sheila Menon

Keynote on the topic "Forming Alliances" at the Degrowth Summer School 2016. With Nnimmo Bassey and Sheila Menon. From the Program: We want to hear the voices of people who have been part of networks in the struggle for climate justice and a fairer and more sustainable economy and society. For this purpose, we will invite people from the international climate movement and local resistance. ...