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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“When you told your friends and family you were going to a degrowth gathering, they asked, ‘What is degrowth?’ How did you respond?” The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with this question. The first day’s thirty-odd attendees wrote their responses on sticky notes as they scraped the last bites of lunch off the dishes the event’s organizers had told them to ...
By Andreas Roos “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication revolutions merge with new energy regimes”. This is the beginning of an article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian back in 2011, echoing the promise he laid out in his then newly written book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. The book claims, i...
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 [...]
