The next Spaces Beyond Growth: Municipal Degrowth Network webinar event will take place on Wednesday 28th May from 9:00-10:30 CEST.
This will be a space to have a discussion on Feminist Municipalism: Local care politics in Grenoble, Hernani and Graz. The speakers Rivka Saltiel, a researcher at the University of Graz, Coline Chardon, a researcher at the University of Freiburg , and Xabier Lertxundi, mayor of Hernani (Basque country) will present their perspectives on local care politics in Graz, Grenoble, and Hernani.
The following text is an excerpt from “Towards an Ecology of Care: Basic Income Beyond the Nation-state (unpublished). Even though the degrowth movement has shown the limits of our civillization’s obsession with growth, and has promoted and proposed complementary currencies, the degrowth critique has yet to consider the role that money/credit creation plays more explicitly. Ecological ec...
Europe is exhausted. It is exhausted after long years of what is labeled as the Eurozone crisis. It is exhausted after years of economic success and – now – prolonged years of political failure. Every single attempt of deepening the political union of Europe after the enactment of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 and the [...]
Interview with Ole Bjerg Ole Bjerg is associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He writes for the ephemera Journal and is one of the organizers of the conference "Organizing for the post-growth economy". He gave us a short interview for the Stream towards Degrowth. Imagine we're living in the future, say in the year 2030, in a time of well-being. Humanity enjoys a good life ...
