The next Spaces Beyond Growth: Municipal Degrowth Network webinar event will take place on Wednesday 28th May from 9:00-10:30 CEST.
This will be a space to have a discussion on Feminist Municipalism: Local care politics in Grenoble, Hernani and Graz. The speakers Rivka Saltiel, a researcher at the University of Graz, Coline Chardon, a researcher at the University of Freiburg , and Xabier Lertxundi, mayor of Hernani (Basque country) will present their perspectives on local care politics in Graz, Grenoble, and Hernani.
Degrowth stands for moving beyond the paradigm of the growth- and profit-oriented economic system. By means of a social-ecological transformation, a good life for all can be achieved. This means overcoming the imperial way of living of the global North, building alternatives, and creating positive narratives of our possible future. This also includes resisting useless large-scale projects, priv...
For the third year in a row, the Degrowth Summer School is being held on the Climate Camp in the Rhineland. It runs from the 18th to 23rd of August. Just 10 days before the start of the Summer School the foundation „Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung Nordrhein-Westfalen“ has cancelled our funding. The reason they‘ve given us: The Summer School takes place too close to actions of civil disobedience...
By Jasmin Wiefek and Bernd Sommer “Wrong life cannot be lived rightly”: This famous dictum by Theodor W. Adorno1 highlights the difficulty of finding a way to individually pursue a good life in a world that is characterised by inequality, exploitation and various forms of domination. However, this question has so far mainly been dealt with [...]
