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By: Santiago Gorostiza

degrowth, autonomy, democracy, fascism, ruralism, Spain

By: Maja Goepel

Abstract: Humans create stories about why they are here, what the purpose of this journey is and how to relate to their human and natural environment. These stories rest on some core ideas that feed into the common language and sense-making that people apply when engaging in collaboration, the design of institutions or legitimization of domination. Looking at what the story of neoclassical econ...

By: Sanna Frischknecht

Abstract: Focusing on the question of how people live and interact, co-housing projects, such as “Kraftwerk1”, “Nena1” and others attempt to withdraw imperatives of growth by establishing a new way of life in urban contexts. Some of the projects are closely connected to the ideas of an urban utopia “bolo’bolo” which was written by P.M. in the 1980ies. This ideal of a new way of life describes a...

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

GDP; power; war; markets; economists; globalization

By: Arianna Ferrari

Abstract: Despite the fact that degrowth theorists offer different analyses of the concept of nature, they share the belief that it is necessary to overcome the idea of a strict divide between subject (the human being) and object (the environment). They challenge the belief in technological progress as providing solutions to any problem, promote a social, fair and ecological perspective and typ...

By: Uchita de Zoysa

Abstract: Given the inequities and unsustainability of the present model of development, the world needs profound transformations in the fundamental values and organizing principles of society. The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy of the global polity as an outer layer of the nested system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places, and to build the processes of democratic gl...

By: Brian Davey

Abstract: Western Europe and the USA have held themselves up as models to be followed by the countries of Eastern Europe - democratic countries run according to the rule of law, with market based consumer societies, privatised key sectors and focused on economic growth. Joining the European Union and learning how to be like the "successful" western economies has been seen as Central and Eastern...

By: Ulrich Brand

degrowth, domination, democracy, Marxism, feminism

By: Bengi Akbulut, Prof Fikret Adaman, Murat Arsel, Duygu Avci

Abstract: That degrowth agenda has not taken an explicit stance vis-à-vis the organization of the economic relations has been a point of sharp criticism, especially regarding the viability of a degrowth trajectory. While the critiques have predominantly emphasized the material role of economic growth in the reproduction of capitalist relations of production, we argue that the notion of growth a...

By: Panos Petridis

Economism, autonomy, Greece, crisis, democracy, degrowth, transformation

By: Hans Thie

Der Verlag: »Grüner Kapitalismus« ist kompatibel mit den Mächtigen, sorgt für das Flair ökologischer Modernität. Aber er ist keine Antwort, wenn es um fundamentale Zukunftsfragen geht. Wer Ökologie für alle will, muss die Wirtschaftsordnung ändern. Sattes Grün verlangt kräftiges Rot. Strom nur mit Sonne und Wind, neuen Speichern und intelligenten Netzen. Kaum noch Autos in den Innenstädten. ...

By: Panos Petridis

Abstract: The density of events over the last years, together with the continuous scaremongering from the dominant political and media circles, has put the Greek society into an informal “economic state of exception”. Austerity measures and neoliberal policies such as large scale privatisations, under the name of “reform” or “modernisation” are presented as a painful but necessary evil and a va...

By: Annalisa Stagni, Mani Tese

Abstract: The consumption pattern in the north requires an intensive exploitation of natural resources in the south of the world, making some countries totally depending from the sale of their natural resources. The global north needs to stop consumption without limits of our environment and people must be aware that these limits exist, due to the finiteness of our world. Our lifestyles have a ...

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre e Jacques Dias

Keywords : Work, hunger, poverty, Industrial farming, Permaculture, autonomy

By: Jean-Louis Aillon, Elena Dal Santo

Abstract: In 2000, 189 nations committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, namely a promise to free people from extreme poverty and deprivations. Unfortunately, UN reports and estimates show that MDGs are far from being achieved. Although the objectives are certainly ambitious, the lack of improvements in the basic life conditions of the world population is strictly connected to t...

By: Le Monde Diplomatique

Wer bekommt die Seltenen Erden aus China? Mit wem verbünden sich die aufstrebenden Mächte des Südens? Was machen die Neonazis in Europa? Welche Folgen hat der Landraub für Afrika? Wie verändert der Drogenkrieg die Machtverhältnisse in Mittelamerika? Wann kommt der Happy Planet Index für das gute Leben? Antworten auf diese und ander wichtige Fragen von morgen gibt der neue Atlas der Globalisier...

By: Adam Hochschild

Die Geschichte des Kongo um die Jahrhundertwende ist eine Geschichte von Blut und Gewalt. Getrieben von der Gier nach Geld, Macht und Ruhm, brachte König Leopold II. von Belgien den Kongo 1885 in seinen Privatbesitz. In der Folgezeit ließ er das Land mit auch für damalige Verhältnisse beispielloser Grausamkeit ausbeuten und plündern. Geiselnahme, Vergewaltigung, Mißhandlung und Mord waren di...

By: Ulrich Brand, Bettina Lösch, Benjamin Opratko, Stefan Thimmel

»Es geht ... um die Kritik und Veränderung bestehender Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse, die Alternativen dazu sind jedoch vielfältig, müssen praktisch entstehen, stehen teilweise in Spannungen zueinander. Die Ausrichtung von Alternativen kann am Staat orientiert, staatskritisch oder anti-staatlich sein, vom Anspruch her oder in der Praxis systemimmanent oder System transformierend. Ökologisc...

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Janice Harvey

[ Janice Harvey // Creating Culture ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Janice Harvey made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Janice Harvey talks about culture and what it is. It is pre-reflective, it gives a frame for what people live in, for taking decisions etc.. Further she talks about how culture can change.

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

Abstract: The present paper attempts to reveal the relationships between some long-run systemic processes (on the economic, ecological, social and symbolic levels) and the theme of democracy. Starting from the distinction between democracy and autonomy, the paper focusses on its main issue: the trade-off between growth and autonomy. Continual growth can be produced, and indeed has been produced...