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By: Tzekou Eirini-Erifyli, Gritzas Giorgos

The degrowth side of post-development (and vice versa) Although it's been over 20 years since the first edition of "Development Dictionary" (Sachs, 1992), which marks the beginning of the debate on the end of the era of development and the transition to the age of post-development, and about 15 years since the emergence of the degrowth discourse as an activist slogan (Demaria et al, 2013), and...

By: Gonzalo Gamboa

Last decades have witnessed a quality turn in food production and consumption, which entails an increasing trend of acquiring food from local supply chains. Advocates of local supply chains highlight the higher sustainability of these chains when compared with their global counterparts: local food supply chains offer products of higher quality than global supply chains and are based on relation...

By: Martin Schweighofer

Energy consumption is deeply embedded in social practices of everyday life. Knowledge is a constitutive element of these practices and its purposeful production can be a way of governing their necessary transformation towards energy sufficiency. Knowledge production can be understood as a struggle for meanings, in which diverse actors engage with their epistemic work (Alasuutari & Qadir, 20...

By: Dr. Gyula Zilahy

Innovative, new ways of doing business (such as the sharing economy, product-service systems, etc.) are becoming pervasive in all areas of life, but research has been slow in taking stock of emerging practices and their impact. Amit and Zott (2012) defines a business model as an activity system aiming at the satisfaction of the perceived needs of the market along with the specification of which...

By: Julia Steinberger, Sylvia Lorek, Edina Vadovics, Antonietta Di Giulio, Philip J Vergragt, Marlyne Sahakian

Special session proposal submitted by SCORAI Europe, organized by Sylvia Lorek, Marlyne Sahakian, Edina Vadovics and Philip Vergragt. This session introduces degrowth and transformations from the viewpoint of sustainable consumption, understood as an attractive, equitable and empowering ‘new normal’ that involves a good life for all in a constrained world. Based on a SCORAI workshop hosted pri...

By: Karin Bradley, Erika Öhlund, Alexander Paulsson, Tuuli Hirvilammi, Paavo Järvensivu

This session explores strategies for futures beyond growth in the context of the Nordic welfare states, reflecting a growing public interest, and ongoing academic research projects that critically examine current growth paradigms. Degrowth has been described as not primarily driven by the government, but rather evolving through grassroots movements. Nordic models of a strong welfare s...

By: Davor Mujezinovic

Elements crucial to understanding the drive for growth under capitalism, as well as other mechanisms and forces that are endemic to it, are missed by mainstream ecological economics. This is not due to faulty analysis, but simply because such elements are not included to begin with due to particular choices in the 'pre-analytic vision'. The inclusion of certain concepts, tools and categories dr...

By: Sabine Leidig, Philippe Lamberts, Rebeka Szabo

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Philippe Lamberts, Rebeka Szabo, Sabine Leidig Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

By: Szathmári, Tamás Kocsis

Training, selection, peaking, workloads, etc. are common notions associated with our growth-oriented, capitalist society. However, these concepts are also inherent in elite sport as well, where ‘the winner takes all’. Thus the logic of modern sport resembles the capitalist milieu in which it has evolved: individualism, competitiveness, peak performance, and productivity are all essential compon...

By: Heuishilja Chang

As a consequence of global urban competition, shrinkage is becoming the norm for an increasing number of urban and rural places in industrialised countries. The most acute shrinkage often exists in small rural communities which have experienced sustained depopulation and the resultant decline of economic, environmental and social functions. In Japan, for instance, about one-third of the 1,700 m...

By: Ahmet Atil Asici

This paper analyses the subjective well-being levels in Turkey between 2004 and 2014 by relying on Turkish Statistical Institute’s Life Satisfaction Surveys. This is the first study, in Turkey, ever to suggest an alternative well-being approach for Turkish population which is solely based on subjective measures. The analysis benefits from the approaches to well-being of Bhutan’s Gross National ...

By: chitrav89@gmail.com

Chitra K Vishwanath and S.Vishwanath. At the heart of de-growth is the concept of reduction to the bare minimum for survival. Our presentation talks about bringing about change in a subtle manner without being radical/revolutionary and bring the change through lifestyle decisions which make the person responsible. In India the current rallying cry is of development. Development which involves ...

By: Naomi

The concept of the more-than-human commons attempts to articulate a relationship between limits and possibility, relationality and agency, human and non-human that moves beyond humanist, or dualist, ways of thinking and doing politics. This was the premise of a series of panels organised for the Undisciplined Environments political ecology conference in Stockholm, March 2016. Disrupting the bin...

By: Heidi Leonhardt

The importance of economic growth within the current economic and political debate is striking. Growth is believed to solve most problems in European states, including high levels of public debt, high unemployment, or a lack of global competitiveness and investment attractiveness. There is not much debate, however, asking why growth is so indispensable both for states and companies. Given the b...

By: Danijela Dolenec, Agnes Gagyi, Mislav Žitko, Karin Doolan

This panel explores ways in which socialist and post-socialist legacies impact the receptivity and expectations from degrowth concepts and strategies. More specifically, this panel attempts to compare modernization projects in the East and West of Europe, with the objective of questioning the Orientalist assumption according to which ideas important for a reorientation towards degrowth come exc...

By: Bastian Ronge

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité were the famous keywords of the French Revolution. Modern philosophy reflected intensely on the concepts of freedom and equality, but neglected fraternity or rather solidarity. Hence, solidarity remained a “wishy-washy concept” (Jaeggi 2001, 287) until today. In my presentation I suggest conceptualizing solidarity as a form of life. That means: I will put forward th...

By: Corinna Burkhart, Giorgos Kallis, Federico Demaria, Vincent Liegey, Filka Sekulova, Anne Pinnow, Alexandra Köves

Opening Panel "Connecting the dots of degrowth" at the the 5th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Federico Demaria, Corinna Burkhart, Filka Sekulova, Anne Pinnow, Giorgos Kallis, Alexandra Köves and Vincent Liegey (Tuesday 16h-18h) Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

By: LE, Nhu Tuyen

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept was born in the 1980s in the United States and has been expanded throughout the world. CSA is a “concept describing a community-based organization of producers and consumers. The consumers agree to provide direct support to the local growers who will produce their food. The growers agree to do their best to provide a sufficient quantity and qual...

By: Anitra Nelson

Even for many radical adherents of degrowth, money is a common-sense — not simply capitalist — tool, so alternative currencies and banks abound. This paper argues against this common-sense logic, as follows. The most direct and efficient form of degrowth requires as-local-as-is-feasible production focusing on people’s basic needs, implying that future distribution is decided simultaneously with...

By: Alexander Capistran

A skilled and interdisciplinary use of empowering technologies and proactive visionary thinking is, due to Accelerationist thinkers as Armen Avanessian or Nick Srnicek, the most viable strategy for emancipative transformation. Referring to a long history of left thinking (back to Marx himself), Accelerationist theoreticians claim that emancipation from the oppressive capitalist system should dw...