Soziale Bewegungen sind zentrale Akteure gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse. Durch ihre Arbeit sind viele der gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen der letzten Jahrzehnte erst möglich geworden. Für soziale Bewegungen ist es jedoch eine Herausforderung, interne Strukturen nach den partizipatorischen, demokratischen, transparenten, gleichberechtigen und inklusiven Anforderungen zu gestalten, d...
Since the 2014 Leipzig Degrowth Conference, the argument that climate justice cannot exist without degrowth has repeatedly been made. In a keynote at the Degrowth conference in Budapest, in September 2016, I developed this line of thinking further and argued that the opposite is equally important: There is not degrowth without climate justice. My argument, which I presented as someone involved ...
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 ...
