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
.One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
The signs from the Degrowth-Conference having disappeared from the walls of the portentous building of Corvinus University, and the streets of Budapest emptied from the stalls and the babble of the Degrowth-Week, the time is ripe for another evaluation-round. The conference can be assessed from diverse perspectives – with disparate outcomes, I suspect. Even if I am relatively new to the Degrow...
Dieser Text ist eine gekürzte Fassung des Beitrages zur Jugendumweltbewegung für „Degrowth in Bewegung(en)“ Wir sind beide langjährig mit der BUNDjugend ehren- beziehungsweise hauptamtlich verbunden und sprechen daher vor allem für diesen verbandsgeprägten und organisierten Teil der Jugendumweltbewegung. Gleichzeitig fühlen wir uns als Teil der Degrowth-Bewegung. Dieser Text ist eine subjekti...