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
.Since the very beginning of modern growth-critique, starting with the publication of the report „Limits to Growth“ in 1972, the mainstream response to this critique has always been: “Well, we can grow the limits by making things ever more efficient”. Now, with the shiny user interface of the ongoing digital revolution, the holy grail of the efficiency revolution gets yet another new finish: By ...
From 30 August to 3 September Budapest will be under the banner of degrowth with two major degrowth-events: The degrowth week and conference. In order to give you some ideas on what to expect there, we´ve asked a few questions to the Degrowth 2016 organizing team: How come that you chose to differ between the Degrowth-conference and the Degrowth-week? We strongly felt that it was important ...
Der AK Reproduktion, das Feministische Institut Hamburg und die Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung laden ein zur „Aktionskonferenz Care Revolution“ am 14.-16. März 2014 in Berlin. Für den Stream towards Degrowth hat uns Jette Hausotter, als Mitglied des AK Preproduktion, einige Fragen beantwortet. Die Initiator_innen der Aktionskonferenz und über 50 Kooperationspartner_innen wollen den Anstoß geben, die individuellen und kollektiven [...]
