The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
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We live nextdoor to my partner’s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, “why?”, and then she was curious in which pot we were planning to boil the diapers. In her eyes, we could not possibly...
In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth. How to live better with less? This novel project enhances new critica...
Während der internationalen Degrowth-Sommerschule an der »Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona« unterhielt sich Felicitas Sommer mit dem Commons-Forscher Aggelos Varvarousis, der Soziologin Lúcia de Oliveira Fernandes und dem Aktivisten und Wissenschaftler der ökologischen Ökonomien Claudio Cattaneo. Felicitas Sommer: In vielen südeuropäischen Ländern brechen die öffentlichen Versorgungssysteme zusammen. Der Zugang zu medizinischer Versorgung und öffentlichen Bildungseinrichtungen, der [...]
