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Scientific paper • 2016

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Leave it in the ground! Degrowth, resource struggles and direct actions against coal

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Matthias Schmelzer, Matthias Schmelzer, Tilman Santarius, Monika

In this degrowth-in-action special session we will discuss both theoretically and practically the relations between degrowth, climate justice, resource extraction and resource struggles. At the same time we will look at and try to link the ongoing efforts in the anti-coal fights in different regions of the world. This session thus aims at deepening our understanding of the relationships between...

Presentation • 2016

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Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - An understanding of materialistic values in post-socialist Europe. Exploring demographic determinants and implications for working patterns

By: Saamah Abdallah

Presentation by Saamah Abdallah Degrowth is a post-materialist movement, which places value on the biosphere, human wellbeing, and justice, above and beyond the possession of material goods (Degrowth Declaration, 2008). And yet surveys suggest that levels of materialism are higher in post-socialist countries than in Western European countries (Kyvelidis, 2001). In the sixth round of the Euro...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Incarnating degrowth.

By: Marco Deriu

I would like to explore the connection between the degrowth perspective and contemporary feminism. The main finding that comes from feminist critics, is that unpaid care work carried out by women, still remains invisible on the official economy; and this invisible work supports, not only the reproduction of salaried workers, but more in general, the same process of capitalistic accumulation (Sh...

Scientific paper • 2016

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How to overcome the loneliness of the long-distance runner?

By: Zsolt Boda

Karl Polanyi argued that a market economy can only function in a market society. Paraphrasing him we may say that a sustainable economy can only function in a sustainable society. An essential feature of such a society is that its social norms and institutions reward future-oriented, responsible decisions and actions while hindering myopic and materialistic choices. The mainstream model of eco...

• 2016

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„Die Zukunft fängt bei Dir an“ – Was bedeutet Degrowth oder Postwachstum für Wen?

By: Gisela Notz

Kritik an Postwachstumsansätzen die vom WIR sprechen ohne zu sagen wer da gemeint ist, wenn es um reduzieren geht. Leider bezieht sich die Autorin nur auf Postwachstum und Miegel und Peach und nicht auf Degrowth und Texte, sowie Autor_innen die nicht von einem allgemeinen WIR sprechen. Aus dem Text: . . . Das drängt die Frage auf: Wer wird hier angesprochen, und wer soll oder muss was zum...

Scientific paper • 2016

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How to construct the alternative to capitalism? Discovering the commons in the environmental justice movements

By: DEFNE

Environmental justice movements are taking place at an ever accelerating rate through out the world. Through mobilization of people with diverse societal backgrounds, race, ethnicity, age, gender and income levels, they not only challenge the existing state-society-economy spectrum but also contain important clues about an alternative to capitalism. As crisis vocabulary has become a chronic par...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Diverging pathways to overcoming the environmental crisis: A critique of eco-modernism from a technology assessment perspective.

By: Armin Grunwald

Keywords: Eco-modernism; Techno-optimism; Technology assessment; Responsibility ethics; Unintended side effects

Scientific paper • 2016

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How can local Network growth economy serve to global degrowth?

By: Adam Cajka

An average village in India does not really benefit from the current economic system. The story of Kuthumbakkam, a village in Tamil Nadu, shows how people can locally create viable economy based on the regional sources and inter-village exchange. Main charasteristics of the Network growth economy are high localisation of production and consumption and focus on self-sufficiency. Initial concept...

Report • 2016

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Böses Wachstum

By: Peter Bierl

Aus dem Artikel: . . . Die Degrowth-Bewegung versteht sich mehrheitlich als links, die meisten Vertreter grenzen sich nach rechts ab, gegen Alain de Benoist, einen Vordenker der sogenannten Neuen Rechten, oder den konservativen Meinhard Miegel, der unter dem Deckmantel des Postwachstums den Sozialabbau vorantreiben will. Dennoch gibt es Positionen in der Bewegung, die nach rechts tendieren oder...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Is there a Global Environmental Justice Movement?

By: Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene, Joan Martinez‐Alier, Arnim Scheidel

Keywords: Environmental justice, ecological distribution conflicts, collaborative research, activist knowledge, EJatlas, environmental racism, environmentalism of the poor, climate justice, statistical political ecology

Scientific paper • 2016

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Geothermal Energy Education in Hungary

By: Peter Praczki

ABSTRACT To escape the current global economic crisis, the petroleum-based industrial society is trying to maintain the continued economical growth by maximizing fossil energy capacities. The added renewable resources - solar, wind, hydro or geothermal - will unfortunately not be able to compensate the decreased use of fossil energy resources. The only way to avoid a drastic global socio-econom...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Degrowth, energy descent, and ‘low-tech’ living: Potential pathways for increased resilience in times of crisis

By: Samuel Alexander, Paul Yacoumis

Keywords: Low-tech; Appropriate technology; Energy descent; Degrowth; Resilience; Techno-optimism

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Die smarte Diktatur

By: Harald Welzer

Info des Verlags: Bestseller-Autor Harald Welzer legt mit ›Die smarte Diktatur. Der Angriff auf unsere Freiheit‹ eine neue und frische Analyse der großen gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge in Deutschland vor, eine umfassende Diagnose der Gegenwart für alle politisch Interessierten. Unsere Gesellschaft verändert sich radikal, aber fast unsichtbar. Wir steuern auf einen Totalitarismus zu. Das Priv...

• 2016

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The growthocene: Thinking through what degrowth is criticising

By: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Alexander Paulsson

From the text: In what follows, we articulate three ways of understanding growth that should be challenged by degrowth: first, reliance on biophysical throughput; second, capital accumulation and productivism more generally; and third, perpetual strive for quantitative expansion of national economies (measured in GDP). We also propose that growthocene can be a suitable way to characterise the e...

• 2016

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Cultures of Energy Ep. # 16 – Giorgos Kallis

By: Giorgos Kallis

The publisher: It’s a deep dive into “degrowth” this week on the Cultures of Energy podcast. We welcome (6:57) Giorgos Kallis, a political ecologist and ecological economist based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, who has authored several influential papers on the theory and practice of degrowth as an antidote to contemporary notions of green economy and sustainability (http://www.degr...

Report • 2016

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Kontrollverlust: RWE und die Braunkohle im Rheinischen Revier

By: Karin de Miguel-Wessendorf, Matthias Holland-Letz

WDR 5: Der nordrhein-westfälische Energiekonzern RWE steht mächtig unter Druck. Jahrzehntelang produzierte er Strom aus Braunkohle – und entwickelte sich zu Europas größtem Erzeuger von klimaschädlichem CO2. Und nun? Der Riss geht mitten durch das Rheinische Revier, die Region zwischen Aachen und Köln. Auf der einen Seite stehen der Energiekonzern RWE und seine 9.000 Mitarbeiter, die weiterhin...

• 2016

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Degrowth Is Punk as Fuck

By: Sam Bliss, Aaron Vansintjan

We’re not trying to sound nice. Take your positivity and shove it.

• 2016

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Degrowth by designed disaster?

By: Lasse Thiele

How the conflation with neoliberalism and austerity unfairly reduces the idea of degrowth to absurdity – and where the degrowth movement can turn for answers to the crisis. The degrowth movement has been developed in response to neoliberal reality, neoliberalism's comically reductive view of human nature, its ecological blindness and the rise in social inequality it has brought about. Austerit...

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Von nichts zu viel – für alle genug

By: Hans Holzinger

Perspektiven eines neuen Wohlstands Der Verlag: Die Kunst des guten Lebens und einer guten Wirtschafts- und Regierungsführung kann gelingen, wenn wir uns gemeinsam über deren Ziele und Inhalte verständigen. Grundvoraussetzung ist zunächst, dass alle ihr Leben in Freiheit gestalten können, niemand Hunger leidet und niemand Angst haben muss hinauszufallen. Dies verlangt nach kollektivem Teilen...

Interview • 2016

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"Man braucht eine positive Krise"

By: Athanasios Karathanassis, Peter Nowak

Aus dem Interview: . . . Was wäre für Sie der Maßstab für einen Gipfelerfolg gewesen? Eine wirklich historische Wende hin zu einer »Dekarbonisierung« wäre etwas anderes gewesen: das verbindliche Abschalten von Kohlekraftwerken, das sofortige Bereitstellen der erforderlichen finanziellen Mittel für den Aufbau regenerativer Energiequellen, die ersetzend und nicht ergänzend zu fossilen eingesetz...