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By: Eleanor Finley

Teaser on entitle.org: In this second article of the series “Ecology after capitalism“, Finley revisits the concept of growth from the libertarian socialist perspective of social ecology. She draws on Bookchin’s work to interrogate the limits of a degrowth conception of ‘growth’ and argues that we might find more opportunities for social and political transformation in social ecology’s analysis...

By: Christoph Gran

Der Verlag: Der zentrale Stellenwert, den Wirtschaftswachstum in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, aber auch in Medien, Politik und der Öffentlichkeit einnimmt, wird angesichts der massiven Überschreitung ökologischer Grenzen sowie des schwindenden Zusammenhangs von Wirtschaftswachstum und Lebensqualität zunehmend infrage gestellt. Hinzu kommt, dass in vielen frühindustrialisierten Ländern, so auc...

By: Giorgos Kallis, Jeroen van den Bergh

Debate on “A-growth or Degrowth?” between Prof. Jeroen van den Bergh and Prof. Giorgos Kallis

By: Francisco Valenzuela, Steffen Böhm

post-growth, circular economy, waste management, sustainability, politics, discourse analysis, fetishism, Marx, Lacan, Apple

By: Leandro Vergara-Camus

Keywords: Marx, capitalist accumulation, competition, control of the means of production, de-commodification

By: Samuel Alexander

Abstract: What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can ‘culture jamming’ contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this new book I explore these questions, both in theory and practice. I begin with a theoretical defence of art a...

By: Hubert Buch-Hansen, Max Koch, Martin Fritz

From the introduction: Economic growth is neither socially inclusive nor ecologically sustainable. While in the rich countries the unequal distribution of wealth has reached the levels of the nineteenth century (Piketty, 2014), the Earth's carrying capacity is being exceeded in relation to at least three planetary boundaries: climate change, the nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss (Rockström e...

By: Samuel Alexander

"In recent decades the ‘limits to growth’ position has received a great deal of attention, mostly from economic and ecological perspectives (Meadows et al 2004, Daly 1996, Jackson 2009, Turner 2012). More recently, the degrowth movement has begun contributing an important range of new political and sociological analyses (see generally, D’Alisa, Demaria, and Kallis 2015), offering deeper insight...

By: Giorgos Kallis

thesustainabilityagenda.com: In this interview, Professor Giorgos Kallis, a leading degrowth thinker, provides an overview of evolving theories of degrowth. Degrowth theorists argue for a reduction in production and consumption, arguing that overconsumption is at the root of many of the long term environmental issues and social inequalities facing the world today. Professor Kallis highlights th...

By: Hartmut Rosa

Hartmut Rosa weckt mit seiner Forschung zu gelingendem Leben große Aufmerksamkeit. Übertragen auf Bildungsprozesse und Schulsystem, führt seine Theorie der Resonanz zur Neubetrachtung von Schule und Unterricht – zur Resonanzpädagogik. Doch wie zeigt sich Resonanz in der Schule? Dieser und weiteren Fragen ist Wolfgang Endres im Gespräch mit Hartmut Rosa nachgegangen. Daraus ist ein Buch entstand...

By: Nina Treu, Elena Hofferberth

Einleitung: In ihrer Studie "Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Eine Analyse wachstumskritischer Argumente" (Funke et al. 2015) veröffentlicht eine studentische Gruppe die Ergebnisse eines Seminars, in welchem sich die Autor_innen kritisch mit dem Konzept Postwachstum auseinandergesetzt haben. Die Autor_innen fragen "Müssen wir Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Wollen wir dies? Und können wir es überhau...

By: Hans Holzinger

Zukunftsdossier No 6 der Initiative Wachstum im Wandel des österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft anlässlich der 3. Internationalen Konferenz „Wachstum im Wandel“. Blog Postwachstum: Der Verfasser, Hans Holzinger, bietet darin einen umfassenden Überblick über gegenwärtige Positionen zum Thema Postwachstum. Die zusammengestellte Literatu...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

German summary by the author, published on VÖÖ.de: Die Dominanz des Wachstumsgebots ist kaum zu übersehen. Es erscheint auf den Titelseiten der Zeitungen, spielt eine Schlüsselrolle in ökonomischen Analysen, und durchzieht politische Debatten, sowohl über Ländergrenzen als auch das politische Spektrum hinweg. Diese Priorität des Wirtschaftswachstums – die der Umwelthistoriker John McNeill...

By: Giorgos Kallis, Andy Stirling

In a series of 3 blog posts Andy Stirling, responds to the ideas of Giorgos Kallis on the ‘degrowth hypothesis'. Andy Stirling heard a talk by Girogos Kallis and afterwards wrote these 3 blog posts, which are again answered by Kallis. > Part 1 > Part 2 > Part 3 > Answer by Giorgos Kallis From Giorgos Kallis answer: Andy argues that ‘the choices lie not just in growth or deg...

By: Onofrio Romano

Keywords: Degrowth; Mediterranean area; horizontalism; values vs. form; verticalism

By: Kristoffer Wilén

Our article is based on interviews with 20 self-declared environmentally conscious individuals, and by drawing on theories of performativity (Judith Butler), we have studied the ways in which questions of work and working life are negotiated within the formation of green selves (identities). We believe that our findings are relevant for understanding how environmental concerns generate reflecti...

By: Lukáš Likavčan, Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

Keywords: Political economy; Technological change; De-growth; Actor-network theory; Habilitation; Information and communication technologies

By: Timo Järvernsivu

Presentation by Timo Järvensivu It seems that discussions between camps such as ”green growth” and ”degrowth” often end up being debates, even if the aim would be a dialogue. The purpose of this paper and presentation is to draw a map of the main arguments of some of the camps, with the hope of improving the dialogue. Discussion on sustainable wellbeing is often carried along two main dimensi...

By: Antoine Missemer

Keywords: History of economic thought, Georgescu-Roegen, degrowth, bioeconomics, agrowth

By: Mauro Bonaiuti, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Mario Pansera, Pasi Heikkurinen, Lukáš Likavčan

This is the first of a planned ‘trilogy’ of sessions on the contentious relationship between degrowth and technology. It represents the first of three subthemes of a special issue on degrowth and technology, which is currently being edited for the Journal of Cleaner Production. The aim of this special session is to bring together different theoretical and historical perspectives on technology, ...