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• 2016

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Der Schritt zur Seite

By: Marc Hieronimus

Der Verlag über das Buch: „Alles anhalten. Nachdenken. Und das ist keine traurige Angelegenheit.“ So lautete das Motto einer französischen Comic-Kolumne der Siebziger Jahre, als weltweit die letzten Utopien geschrieben wurden. Vierzig Jahre später haben sich Krempel und Rummel vervielfacht, und die Welt steht am Abgrund: Klimawandel, Verseuchung der Böden, der Meere, der Luft und das größte Ar...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Community Building According to Hannah Arendt

By: Pierre Tosi

«Are contemporary homo sapiens necessarily a homo faber as well? Can inspiration for a new narrative be found in the cultural past?» Interesting suggestions about this were given by Hannah Arendt, above all in her "The Human Condition" (1958). The Jewish philosopher thought that the contemporary commingling of "homo faber" (maker of handworks and instruments) and "homo laborans" (producer of h...

Presentation • 2016

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Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Back to the future: a debate among socialists at the dawn of industrialism

By: Hatice Çıvgın

Presentation by Hatice Çıvgın The beginning of the 19th century is considered as the dawn of industrialism, economics and socialism. When J. B. Say proposed the concept of industrialism, Charles Fourier, the father of socialism, immediately challenged the term. Similarly, Simond de Sismondi was another thinker who contested the concept. Later, however, in this era, industrialism became the mai...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Has degrowth outgrown its own name? In defence of an ugly frame.

By: Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Degrowth was first used and find its roots in the 1970s debate of the limits to growth. At the beginning of the 2000s it was launched as a slogan by activists, and in the following decade turned into a frame for a social movement as well as a concept debated in academia. Although its origins have been traced (Demaria et al 2013), two main issues remain contested and in need of clarification: 1)...

Scientific paper • 2016

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De-[Constructing] Growth

By: Nicholas A. Ashford

Keywords: degrowth; sustainable consumption; sustainable production; inequality; sustainability; employment

• 2016

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Resonanz - Eine Soziologie der Weltbeziehung

By: Harmut Rosa

Wenn Beschleunigung das Problem ist, dann ist Resonanz vielleicht die Lösung. Dies ist, auf die kürzestmögliche Formel gebracht, die Kernthese des neuen Buches von Hartmut Rosa, das als Gründungsdokument einer Soziologie des guten Lebens gelesen werden kann. An seinem Anfang steht die Behauptung, dass sich die Qualität eines menschlichen Lebens nicht in der Währung von Ressourcen, Optionen und ...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Growth Critique in the 1970s Crisis and Today: Malthusianism, Social Mechanics, and Labor Discipline

By: Maria Markantonatou

Abstract: This article examines the perspective on labor in two critiques of “growth” as elaborated in the context of two capitalist crises: the Keynesian model of industrial development in the 1970s, and the neoliberal finance capitalist growth model of today. A landmark event for the first critique was the publication of the “Limits to Growth” report, and for the second the emergence of the “...

• 2016

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Globale Wirtschaft: Ausgewachsen

By: Alexander Demling

Zusammengefasst von Spiegel Online: Ein Team deutscher Ökonomen glaubt, dass ihre Zunft bisher mit falschen Modellen an das Phänomen Wirtschaftswachstum herangeht. Sie glauben, dass die Wirtschaft in westlichen Staaten viel langsamer wachsen wird als bisher angenommen und fordern radikale Anpassungen durch die Politik. Andere Ökonomen sagen, die aktuelle Wachstumsschwäche könne durch Zukunftsin...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Moving Critique Beyond 'Moses and the Prophets' Notes for an Ecological Political Economy of Degrowth in Advanced Capitalism

By: Eric Pineault

Keywords: Capitalism, Degrowth, Overaccumulation, Economic Growth, Surplus.

• 2016

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Naming the radical movement for alternative economics: D.E.growth

By: Miklós Antal

Critique of the term "degrowth" From the text: . . . However, there are serious downsides. First, degrowth has a downward orientation, and “down is bad” according to a primary metaphor rooted in physical experiences. Already in ancient Rome, down meant death. We feel down and need to be cheered up. Hell is below us, heaven is above. The association of up with good and down with bad will not ...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Back to the future: a debate among socialists at the dawn of industrialism

By: Hatice Çıvgın

The beginning of the 19th century is considered as the dawn of industrialism, economics and socialism. When J. B. Say proposed the concept of industrialism, Charles Fourier, the father of socialism, immediately challenged the term. Similarly, Simond de Sismondi was another thinker who contested the concept. Later, however, in this era, industrialism became the mainstream ideology of both the so...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Metamorphosis I: A study of Degrowth, investigating conceptual sustainability in theory and transformative potential in practice

By: J.E. Vetter

keywords: Degrowth, Sustainability, Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, Triple-Bottom Line, Whole-Systems, Transformation, System's Change, Transition Management, Ecovillages, Ecovillage, Tamera, Damanhur

• 2016

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Undoing the Ideology of Growth: Hegemony, Path Dependencies and Power in the History of the Growth Paradigm

By: Matthias Schmelzer

"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. (.....

• 2015

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From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism

By: Chris Smaje

From the text: Decades later, I’m a mostly self-employed farmer working a small piece of land, growing a fair slice of my own food, with few opportunities to ‘get away’, but absorbed in the daily wildness of creating sustenance from the earth. I still believe in equality, and I still believe in science, progress and rationality, although in a more conflicted way than before. And when I now thin...

Interview • 2015

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Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Reibungstoleranzen ... François Schneider im Gespräch

By: François Schneider, Schattenblick

Interview mit François Schneider im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: SB: Was stellt sich das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Aktivismus, von Theorie und Praxis für dich dar? FS: Wir müssen auf verschiedenen Ebenen und Skalen arbeiten. Die oppositionelle Praxis zur Veränderung politischer Strukturen muß zur gleichen ...

Presentation • 2015

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Ökologie und die Kapitalakkumulation. «Luxemburg Lecture» von Jason Moore

By: Jason Moore

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Die roten und grünen Analysen der sich verschärfenden Widersprüche des Kapitalismus haben die enge Verbindung der wirtschaftlichen und der Umweltkrisen aufgegriffen. Jason Moore hat wie keiner sonst die Geschichte der langen zyklischen Expansionswellen des Kapitalismus als sozio-ökologischem Prozess der letzten sechshundert Jahre aufgearbeitet. Er hat nachgewiesen, wi...

Position paper • 2015

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Lebendigkeit sei! Für eine Politik des Lebens. Ein Manifest für das Anthropozän

By: Andreas Weber, Hildegard Kurt

oya-online.de: Seit der Aufklärung werden Kultur und Natur als zwei getrennte Sphären wahrgenommen. Ein echter Epochenwandel hin zu einer »Kultur des guten Lebens« könne nur gelingen, indem diese Trennung überwunden wird, sagen die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Hildegard Kurt und der Philosoph und Biologe Andreas Weber. Für die beiden ist es höchste Zeit, die Aufklärung – im Englischen »Enlightenment...

• 2015

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You’re wrong Kate. Degrowth is a compelling word

By: Giorgos Kallis

Giorgos Kallis answers to an article by Kate Raworth where she argues that degrowth isn't a good name for what it describes. Giorgos Kallis answers her critique with nine reasons, why degrowth "Degrowth remains a necessary word". > The article by Kate Raworth

• 2015

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The Left should embrace degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis

From the article: A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can w...

Scientific paper • 2015

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Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Hug March

economic growth, limits, scarcity, scale, utopias