http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India. The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tuned in!
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...
Aus unserem Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en) Wenn Degrowth heißt, dass wir Menschen uns von den Fesseln des Wachstumszwangs befreien müssen, und wenn Commons-Aktivist*innen sich für mehr Commoning in der Welt einsetzen, dann müssen wir uns wohl folgende Fragen stellen: Von welchem Wachstum gilt es sich zu lösen? Wovon brauchen wir mehr? Wie könnte das gehen? Wer setzt sich dafür ein? Auf der ...
As Vincent Ligey, coordinator of the Budapest Conference organizing team mentioned in the closing plenary, it was an experiment to hold an international degrowth conference in a former socialist country where the soil for degrowth ideas is not particularly fertile. The more it came as a surprise that the conference had received a widespread coverage in Hungarian media. Szandra Koves, press out...
