Von Tilman Santarius
Degrowth-Konferenzen sind nicht nur spannend, weil dort ganz drängende Fragen unserer Zeit mit meist sympathischen Menschen in bunter Zusammenkunft aus Süd, Ost und West diskutiert werden. Sondern auch, weil dort unterschiedliche Formate und Herangehensweisen, wie gesellschaftlicher Wandel ins Werk gesetzt werden können, unter einem Dach diskutiert werden. Weiterlesen auf dem Blog Postwachstum
Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations. Degr...
By Sam Bliss Growth means a process of increasing in physical size. When we think of economic growth, it is difficult to fathom what exactly grows, since 'the economy' is an invented concept that describes billions of human interactions as if they were one giant entity. But gross domestic product is a rate -- the total money value of economic activity per year -- and thus growth really means ...
By Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta André Reichel’s very thoughtful piece ‘Retaking sustainable development for degrowth’ raises several very important issues. We start by acknowledging that we and Reichel are clearly on the same page in criticizing current models of ‘growth’ including in its ‘green’ and ‘eco-modernist’ forms. We concur also on the need for the world to move...
