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By: Vincent Liegey, Stéphane Madelaine, Christophe Ondet, Anisabel Veillot

From the text: Will they call for a return to protectionism? Try to regulate the markets? Attempt to rein in unemployment by prioritizing economic growth, regardless of the cost? The Left seems to have run out of ideas for social and economic initiatives that are at once sound, liberating, and environmentally sustainable. Faced with such lack of vision, calls to “relocalize” the economy start t...

By: Rotherbaron

Teaser: Zwischen Green New Deal und Abwrackprämie: Über Glück, Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlstandskonzeptionen einer postmaterialistischen Gesellschaft Aus dem Text: . . . Wie man sieht, bleibt die Definition dessen, was unter “Glück” zu verstehen sei, in der bhutanischen Verfassung absichtlich vage. Keinesfalls beansprucht der Staat, den Einzelnen vorzuschreiben, auf welchem Weg sie glücklic...

By: Giorgos Kallis

We at Research & Degrowth are repeatedly being told that our framing won't work. That we are preaching to the choir by the way we frame our proposals, and that we will never convince the broader public. So, here are our policy proposals re-framed in the language of the U.S. elections. Dedicated to all you framing aficionados out there.   Oil-funded tax breaks Abolish all inc...

By: Onofrio Romano

Keywords: Degrowth; Mediterranean area; horizontalism; values vs. form; verticalism

By: Gui Azevedo

Nationalisms and ‘national interests’ get in the way of solving pressing global problems—e.g., global warming, mass ecological extinction, extreme poverty, and proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Searching for a renewed narrative that could allow us to escape this gridlock, I argue here that our current inability of acting is, to a large extent, caused by the obsolescenc...

By: Julia Désirée Huber

The Greek island of Samothraki was food self-sufficient up until the mid 1960s. This paper analyses, from a socio-metabolic perspective, how the changes in Mediterranean food production and consumption have influenced the island’s food consumption patterns over the past 50 years. A food consumption survey was conducted to assess the current food consumption patterns of the local population of S...

By: Kristoffer Wilén

Our article is based on interviews with 20 self-declared environmentally conscious individuals, and by drawing on theories of performativity (Judith Butler), we have studied the ways in which questions of work and working life are negotiated within the formation of green selves (identities). We believe that our findings are relevant for understanding how environmental concerns generate reflecti...

By: Kristoffer Wilén, Marko Ulvila

In our study, we take a closer look at the ‘Anthropos’ (i.e. the humans) who have caused the processes and changes in the environments, which then have led to the “Anthropocene”. The “Anthropocene” narrative is predominantly presented as something that the entire humankind, the human species, is responsible for. But what happens when you apply a class perspective to the analysis? Hence, we will...

By: Sven Willner

Today's material economy is highly globalized and interlinked. Goods are produced along global supply chains forming a complex economic network. Even post-growth societies based on regional production cycles will most likely depend on such chains, because resources are unequally distributed throughout the globe and therefore not all goods can be produced locally; an aspect often neglected in th...

By: Liisa Haapanen

The positive vision of green growth and the negative outlook of a recession are the prevailing images of future for a growth-centred society. They are challenged by various alternative views of a post-growth society. The purpose of this paper is to specify and elaborate the desired future end-states and scenarios put forward in contemporary growth critique. A literature review of the following ...

By: Pieta Hyvärinen

Food production is at the core of the current ecological and economic crises. To produce food is to be connected with more-than-human nature with the purpose of providing ourselves with our basic needs. As most of the food in the world is produced in exploitative economic and ecological relationships, it is crucial to focus on the various initiatives that look for alternative ways of producing ...

By: Takashi Hayashi

Currently, rural areas in Japan face severe threats to its sustainability. The economic policy called “Abenomics” (named after the prime minister) puts much emphasis on reinvigoration of local economies. However, authors believe that, compared to urban residents, wellbeing of rural residents is more likely to be affected by factors other than economic ones. If so, degrowth transition might cont...

By: Campiolo

The relationship between biodiversity conservation and poverty are frequent themes in political, social, economic and environmental discussions. Poverty is a complex and controversial issue, and has several ways measure, but monetary perpective the most commonly used, although research on poverty reveal the importance of evaluating it under a multidimensional perspective. Studies have shown t...

By: Emese Gulyás, Emese Gulyás, Zoltán Dezsény, Zsófia Perényi

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an economic and agricultural model based on partnership and participation between farmers and consumers, where farmers produce goods for consumers and both parties are committed to the long term maintenance and support of the farm. CSA is often regarded as a model that brings environmental, social and economic benefits to all stakeholders. The session ...

By: Julien Rossi

Presentation by Julien Rossi Data surveillance by private companies and public intelligence agencies is intricated, and research has shown how citizens have become willing participants in their own surveillance. This brings forth a new type of governmentality that is legitimised by hegemonic imaginaries on “Big Data” and innovation which are closely related to the imaginary of technological gr...

By: Lukáš Likavčan, Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

Keywords: Political economy; Technological change; De-growth; Actor-network theory; Habilitation; Information and communication technologies

By: Tomislav Medak

Presentation by Tomislav Medak I'll broach the degrowth transition from the combined perspective of social construction of technology and world system theories. I'll seek to demonstrate how dominant technological complex functions to integrate yet thwart the advancement of semi-periphery. Narratives of a socially more just and ecologically more sustainable future would frequently have us beli...

By: Manu Picazo Casariego, Luis Picazo Casariego

Documentary about Degrowth "There exists a world, the world as it is now, a world of desire, of ‘having’ and ‘always more’, characterized by the absence of any restraint on economic growth. A world which is collapsing right now due to the decline of energy resources and raw materials, and the environmental crisis. But another world exists, the one that’s coming, the world of ‘being’, where m...

By: Jan C. Zoellick

Presentation by Jan C. Zoellick Degrowth is a conglomerate of several streams of thought offering a variety of sometimes conflicting positions (Demaria et al., 2013). Some of these tensions smoulder inexplicitly below the surface of celebrated diversity. This proposal explicates the tension between conservative and reformist approaches on the one hand and revolutionary approaches driving for...

By: Michael Müller, Christoph Zöpel, Martin zur Nedden, Ulrich Hatzfeld, Susanne Götze, Lamia Messari-Becker, Jan Gehl, Gesa Schöneberg, Inge Paulini, Susanne Schwarz, Jörg Staude, Wolfgang Wende, Sandra Kirchner, Joachim Wille

Heft 12 des Magazins movum zum Thema Stadtökologie. Kurzbeschreibung: Die Städte wachsen und mit ihnen die sozialen und ökologischen Probleme. Werden die Metropolen zum Ground Zero der Moderne oder zum Vorreiter des Wandels? Das Heft als PDF Die Infografik als PDF