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By: Christiane Kliemann

Endlich ist es soweit: Der erste Satz Texte und Videos aus dem Projekt "Degrowth in Bewegung(en)" ist jetzt online. Hier beleuchten Vertreter*innen verschiedenster sozialer Bewegungen das Thema Degrowth und benennen aus ihrer Sicht die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede sowie Kritikpunkte an Degrowth. Ziel des Projekts ist ein offener Dialog- und Vernetzungsprozess, der den Austausch, das gegense...

By: Iris Kunze

A Study on Transformative Social Innovation There are numerous grassroots movements and initiatives worldwide with the ambition to contribute to transformative change towards more sustainable, resilient and just societies. Many of them have a specific vision on the economy and relate to alternative visions of a ‘New Economy’. The research project TRANSIT highlights four prominent strands of ne...

By: Angelika Zahrnt

When our book Post-Growth Society was published in 2010 in German, the term was entirely unheard of. Today, Post-Growth is the harsh reality in many countries, but this phenomenon is considered to be transitory. Governmental investment subsidies and infrastructure spending, consumer incentive programs and a generous monetary policy are supposed to re-stimulate growth. Additional governmental e...

By: Fabrice Flipo

Presentation by Fabrice Flipo Political prayers lie on the growth’s comeback to ensure financial incomes to be given out. That for science is seen by many essentially as a tool to provide techniques able to raise productivity, whatever the environmental or social consequences. For those reasons, and especially since the second half of the 20th century, public policy and investment have allowed...

By: Christiane Kliemann

As Vincent Ligey, coordinator of the Budapest Conference organizing team mentioned in the closing plenary, it was an experiment to hold an international degrowth conference in a former socialist country where the soil for degrowth ideas is not particularly fertile. The more it came as a surprise that the conference had received a widespread coverage in Hungarian media. Szandra Koves, press out...

By: Corinna Burkhart

The picture above shows some of the statues decorating the northern entrance of the Corvinus University in Budapest where the recent Degrowth Conference took place. The building has not always been a university. It once was a place of trade, and the statues over the entrance depict virtues which, back then, were considered central to trade. Virtues like courage, faith, love and honesty. When di...

By: Nimmo Bassey, Sheila Menon

Keynote on the topic "Forming Alliances" at the Degrowth Summer School 2016. With Nnimmo Bassey and Sheila Menon. From the Program: We want to hear the voices of people who have been part of networks in the struggle for climate justice and a fairer and more sustainable economy and society. For this purpose, we will invite people from the international climate movement and local resistance. ...

By: Malo Vidal

Impulsvortrag von Malo Vidal zum Thema "Utopien entwickeln" auf der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinland 2016. Im Anschluss an den Impulsvortrag gab es eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema. Aus dem Programm: Eine andere Welt ist möglich! Aber welche? Systemwandel, Degrowth, sozial-ökologische Transformation, Anarchie, das gute Leben für alle. Was bedeuten diese Schlagworte für uns? Welches sind d...

By: Christiane Kliemann

Impressions from the degrowth summer school and the Rhineland climate camp It's now for the second time that the Degrowth Summer School took place at the climate camp in the coal-mining region of the German Rhineland with around 800-900 participants. Last year it had mainly focused on the topic of climate justice and on bringing the two movements – degrowth and climate justice – together. This...

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. Degr...

By: Derek Rasmussen

My presentation seeks to weave my 20 years of work with Nunavut Inuit with my meditation teaching among non-Indigenous Euro-Canadians. ‘The Great Transformation’ of market relations compelled a great transformation of learning: disembedding and extracting it from communities and converting it into a scarce new substance called Education. Education is hydroponic cultural transmission for uproot...

By: Dirk Posse

Herausgeber_innen: Eine Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum wird durch Entwicklungen wie sinkende Wachstumsraten, ökologische Grenzen und sich verstärkende soziale Schieflagen zur realen Herausforderung - fpr die Zukunftsfähigkeit einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft, aber gleichfalls für Unternehmen als Problemverursacher und potenzielle Problemlöser Aus Postwachstum folgt allerdings kein Wachstumverbot....

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 ...

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 “...

By: Susan Paulson, Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, György Pataki

The discussion of the plenary "Capitalism and (de)growth" is outlining the key degrowth challenges, such as the internal contradictions of capitalism, exiting growth and comparing the transition experiences and potentials in the parts of the world where they originate from. Speaker: Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, Susan Paulson Facilitator: György Pataki 31/08/2016, Degrowth Confer...

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy: Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common present...

By: Marc Menningmann

About Climate Justice & Degrowth from Raute Film on Vimeo. Raute Film: The Degrowth Summer School 2015 took place at the climate camp in the Rhineland. The Rhineland is one of the biggest lignite mining regions, the biggest source of CO2 in Europe. To protest against climate-damaging industry and resource extraction, different movements, which have a lot in common and share ambitions, ...

By: Samuel Alexander

From the introduction: This paper provides a summary case for why there are, in fact, limits to growth, and outlines a range of bold policy interventions that would be required to produce a stable and flourishing post-growth economy. The analysis draws on and attempts to develop a rich array of thinking from literatures including ecological economics, eco-socialism, degrowth, and sustainable co...

By: 350.org

A web page with a wide range of methods for team building, facilitation, strategy, organizing etc.. Available in four languages and free to use and to further distribute.

By: Stefanie Gerold

Ein Bereicht von einer Podiumsdiskussion am 23. Februar 2016 in Wien, bei der Vertreter*innen der Initiativen Wachstum im Wandel, Degrowth und Gutes Leben für alle über die Rolle des Wachstums – oder vielmehr dessen Abwesenheit –, Lebensqualität und globale Gerechtigkeit diskutieren. Alle 3 Strömungen werden kurz vorgestellt und dann an hand folgender Fragen verglichen: Wie erreicht der Wand...