Valentin Thurn ist Regisseur. 2011 kam sein Film "Taste the Waste" in die Kinos und er gründete die Selbstorganisations-Plattform "Foodsharing" mit, auf der überschüssige Nahrungsmittel an andere weiter gegeben werden können. Für den Stream towards Degrowth sprachen wir mit ihm in einem Videointerview fiktiv aus einer Zeit in der Zukunft, die die Steigerungslogik überwunden hat. Das Thema: Sein Filmprojekt über die zukünftige Ernährung der Gesellschaft, so wie er sie sich 2014 vorstellt.
From a provocative activist slogan to an academic concept towards policy making This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (2008). This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. I want to take stock of the last decade in terms of conference...
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...
One of the most controversially discussed key tracks during the 5th International Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest was “Degrowth and other social movements”. Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future? On one hand, the notion of “degrowth movement(s)” was rigorously criticized for fragmenting the political struggle...
