Why do degrowth scholars use the word "decolonise" to discuss the process of changing the growth imaginary? Isn’t decolonisation about undoing the historical colonisation of land, languages and minds? How do these two uses of the word relate? This blog post is the result from a discussion held between some participants at a Degrowth Summer School in August 2017. While some parts of this blog...
Should arguments for degrowth be anthropocentric or ecocentric? And what does this mean in practice? There is an interesting discussion going on, starting with two recent court rulings in New Zealand and India about rivers being granted personal rights. We present an article by Ashish Kothari, Mari Margil and Shrishtee Bajpai, first published for The Guardian. Several geographically-distan...
Was ist ein gutes Leben und wie kann man ein gutes Leben leben? Eine Frage, die jeder einzelne für sich beantworten muss? Nein, sagen Uwe Schneidewind und Angelika Zahrnt in ihrem Buch „Damit gutes Leben einfacher wird“. Das gute Leben sei auch ein politisches Thema, denn die Politik muss die Bedingungen und Möglichkeitsräume für ein [...]
