When? Wednesday May 20th at 15h CET
Where? Online
A conversation about communicating economic transformation in practice, with Sara Al-Mahdi, Alvaro Alvarez Ricciardelli, Emma Panciera and Dickon Bonvik-Stone.
Ideas like degrowth, post-growth, the well-being economy, and related approaches are gaining attention across climate, democracy, and social debates. But communicating them remains challenging.
Due to the fact that they question the central role of economic growth, these ideas can feel abstract, ideological, or even threatening. For many audiences, economic growth is synonymous to jobs, stability, and progress, meaning alternatives can trigger resistance.
This panel explores what works in the real world, with practical case studies, lessons learned, and reflections on which narratives and frames help new economic thinking resonate, and which backfire
On top of the ethical, environmental and epidemiological arguments, the animal liberation perspective can also provide an alternative historical view on growth. This article explores the historical connections between animal exploitation, growth and violence, and the lessons these offer for degrowth today. A previous article on this blog argued that degrowth should incorporate an eth...
By Matthias Schmelzer The following article is a translation from the forthcoming “Atlas der Globalisierung”, that will be edited by Le Monde diplomatique and the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Universität Jena) under the title “Less is More. The Postgrowth-Atlas” (“Weniger wird mehr. Der Postwachstums-Atlas”. Postwachstum. Degrowth. Décroissance. These are buzzwords of a newly emergin...
By Ashish Kothari As it becomes abundantly clear that humanity as a whole has crossed the ecological limits of the earth, and that countries like China and India are fast joining the already-industrialised nations in stressing the planet even more, the search for radical alternatives is humanity’s most urgent quest. There is no doubt that, as [...]
