The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
.Why do degrowth scholars use the word "decolonise" to discuss the process of changing the growth imaginary? Isn’t decolonisation about undoing the historical colonisation of land, languages and minds? How do these two uses of the word relate? This blog post is the result from a discussion held between some participants at a Degrowth Summer School in August 2017. While some parts of this blog...
By Giorgos Kallis A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can ...
Vor gut einem Jahr fand die Vierte Internationale Degrowth Konferenz für Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig statt. Dazu gibt es ein Jubiläumsvideo des Stückes "Metamorphosen": Metamorphosen from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. Zur Eröffnung der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 trat der Klangkünstler Pablo Paolo Kilian mit seinem Stück "Metamorphosen" auf. Visuell begleitet...
