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Scientific paper • 2016

Kein richtiges Leben im falschen? Wachstumsneutrale Unternehmen in der Wachstumswirtschaft

Schlagworte: Postwachstum; wachstumsneutrale Unternehmen; Nachhaltigkeit; ökologisches Wirtschaften; soziale Differenzierung

Scientific paper • 2016

A Plea for Degrowth

By: Céline Surprenant

Book review of "Olivier Rey, Une question de taille, Stock, 2014, 288 p." From the text: . . . In Une question de taille, Olivier Rey, too, makes disillusioned observations about the progress associated with modernity, post-modernity, indeed hypermodernity. Yet, while his predecessors, such as Günther Anders in The Obsolescence of Man (1956), have highlighted the losses (p. 31) that...

Scientific paper • 2016

Coping with the Horizontal Hitch: The 'Con-Formism' of the Degrowth Alternative

By: Onofrio Romano

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

Presentation • 2016

How Economism Became Our Religion

By: Richard Norgaard

Publisher: Economism pervades our political discourse even while it is obviously false: growing and globalizing the U.S. economy have not helped the poor, lower taxes have led to collapsing bridges and poorer schools, and reducing regulations have hastened environmental destruction. These and other beliefs, or economism, have been perpetrated in the name of economics and gained credence...

Scientific paper • 2016

Postwachstum als Herausforderung für Unternehmen

By: Dirk Posse

Herausgeber_innen: Eine Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum wird durch Entwicklungen wie sinkende Wachstumsraten, ökologische Grenzen und sich verstärkende soziale Schieflagen zur realen Herausforderung - fpr die Zukunftsfähigkeit einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft, aber gleichfalls für Unternehmen als Problemverursacher und potenzielle Problemlöser Aus Postwachstum folgt allerdings kein Wachstumverbot....

Misc • 2015

An ethics of surplus and the right to waste?: Discards and Degrowth

By: Max Liboiron

Short piece about discards in the context of degrowth. The author is asking if there are proposals within the degrowth framework dealing with waste and toxics and also how such proposals look like. He briefly discusses the concept of dépense and introduces the thought of a "right to waste".

Report • 2015

The green Pope: how religion can do economics a favour

By: Andrew Simms

The article connects Pope Francis' Encyclical published in Summer 2015 to ongoing climate change debates, but mainly describes critique of growth and capitalism formulated by the church since medieval times. Also growth critique or practices not following a growth imperative from other religions and philosophies are topic of the article. Published on 18 June 2015, in the Guardian: Sustainable...

Report • 2015

Wie viele Divisionen hat der Papst?

By: Wolfgang Sachs, Hermann E. Ott

Untertitel: Die Umwelt-Enzyklika und ihre Wirkung auf die Klimapolitik. Kommentar zur Enzyklika "Laudato Si’". Die zentralen Botschaften werden herrausgearbeitet. Außerdem wird eine mögliche Wirkung diskutiert. In: politische ökologie 142, oekom verlag 2015, S. 124–127

Position paper • 2015

Lebendigkeit sei! Für eine Politik des Lebens. Ein Manifest für das Anthropozän

By: Andreas Weber, Hildegard Kurt

oya-online.de: Seit der Aufklärung werden Kultur und Natur als zwei getrennte Sphären wahrgenommen. Ein echter Epochenwandel hin zu einer »Kultur des guten Lebens« könne nur gelingen, indem diese Trennung überwunden wird, sagen die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Hildegard Kurt und der Philosoph und Biologe Andreas Weber. Für die beiden ist es höchste Zeit, die Aufklärung – im Englischen...

Position paper • 2015

Towards Cultures of Aliveness: Politics and Poetics in a Postdualistic Age — an Anthropocene Manifesto

By: Andreas Weber, Hildegard Kurt

Abstract: In Brief Enlightenment thinking is coming to an end. The “Anthropocene” claims to step beyond the dualism of man–nature opposition. Culture is everywhere. This might be an opportunity for sustainable action: saving nature becomes a cultural endeavour. However, the salute to anthropocene stewardship masks the silent enclosure of life within technoculture and bioeconomy. Civilization...

Misc • 2015

«Diese Wirtschaft tötet»

By: Michael Brie, Ilsegret Fink, Cornelia Hildebrandt, Christine Müller, Ofelia Ortega Suárez, Park Seong-Won, Nancy Cardoso Pereira, Konrad Raiser, Mathilde Amatsoukey, Marc H. Ellis, Karl-Heinz Brodbeck, Kuno Füssel, Michael Ramminger, Franz Hinkelammert, Jörg Rieger, Beat Dietschy, Martin Robra, Franz Segbers, Simon Wiesgickl

Kirchen gemeinsam gegen Kapitalismus Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: «Land, Arbeit, ein eigenes Heim – seltsam, wenn ich darüber spreche, ist der Papst für manche ein Kommunist.» Dies sagte Jorge Mario Bergoglio, besser bekannt als Papst Franziskus, im Rahmen eines Treffens mit dem linksgerichteten bolivianischen Präsidenten Evo Morales. Ein Jahr zuvor ging der «Papst der Armen» in seiner ersten...

Scientific paper • 2015

An Ethics of Surplus and the Right to Waste

By: Max Liboiron

About the article: One of the main reasons to bring degrowth and diverse economies into waste studies is that different regimes of valuation can redefine waste—that which is thrown away, devalued, discarded, and externalized. Max Liboiron uses the concept of dépense—excess and its expenditure– to explore other ways of valuing and even celebrating waste when growth-based practices of...

Misc • 2015

Bildung in gesellschaftlicher Transformation

By: Helmut Peukert

Jede nachwachsende Generation steht vor der Frage, ob die bestehende Lebensform für sie zukunftsfähig ist. Zugespitzt stellt sich diese Frage angesichts beschleunigter Modernisierung mit ihrer Auflösung bisheriger Deutungs- und Orientierungsmuster. Krisenhafte Entwicklungen nehmen überall überhand bis hin zur Gefährdung des Bestands unseres Globus. Peukert plädiert für einen radikalen...

Scientific paper • 2014

“The World is My Backyard”: Critiquing Mobility From Inside the Tiny House Movement

By: April Anson

Abstract: The phenomenon of the recent tiny house movement offers a unique opportunity for a to expose the growing commodification of environmental sustainability in a market that continues to shelter economic and class privilege. Written from my subjective position as builder, owner and inhabitant of a tiny house, this paper examines the radical possibilities intrinsic to the mobility of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Saving Money – Breaking Profit? Ride-Sharing Practices in Inter-City Transport

By: Alexa Faerber

Abstract: This contribution examines how the infrastrucutre and ticketing of inter-city railway transport leads to entrepreneurial practices of ride-sharing and asks if this twofold practice (it allows saving money and gaining money) also contains the potential of articulating economic visions of degrowth. The background for these new forms of transportation-entrepreneurialism is the ongoing...

Scientific paper • 2014

Debt, Disparity, Discipleship and the end of the growth imperative

By: Ray Foss

Abstract: Visions and strategies for transformation into economic sustainability are utterly dependent upon dynamics of the social order’s predominant value system. Shareable values require actionable HOLISM – the idea that both properties and functioning of the social system must be a viewed as wholes that cannot be fully understood in terms of their components. Paradigm shifts and progression...

Scientific paper • 2014

The liberation of human and non-human world and the critique of instrumental rationality: Degrowth and Green Critical Theory

By: Anne Fremaux

Critical theory, degrowth, domination, human and non-human nature, instrumental reason, liberation

Scientific paper • 2014

Edgar Morin and the art of rebalancing what needs to grow, degrow and be stabilized.

By: François Gillet

complexe thinking, growth, degrowth , stabilization

Scientific paper • 2014

Teaching literature, teaching change – How dystopias can initiate and support value-based education

By: Christian Hoiß

Abstract: Based on Immanuel Kant’s call for Enlightenment the paper on hand relates his theses to the current behavior of mankind and demands from today’s educational representatives to act against “laziness and cowardice” among students and society as a whole. This goes along with a new focus on values which cannot primarily be built through argumentation and reasoning but according to...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ethical Banks – Professional Biography and taking critical distance in ethical Banking and Finance

By: Sarah Lenz

Abstract: The segment of empirical reality chosen for the presentation is dedicated to ethical or sustainable banking. Though rather small still, this segment has been expanding rapidly. Contrary to conventional banking, this segment has constantly been gaining legitimacy since the collapse of global finance. Building on the assumption that institutions do not only depend on the acceptance and...