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Report • 2017

Making power asymmetries visible

By: Leonie Sontheimer, Karoline Pöggel, Camila Nobrega

"This blog entry is based on the assignment given to use during the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice from June 25th – July 7th 2017. Instead of looking outside for an issue to target for the assignment, we decided to use this task to look inside the Summer School and to make power asymmetries in this space visible. We came up with this topic while having coffee and cake on...

Interview • 2017

Ecosocialism / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Patrick Bond

By: Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond, UKZN-CCS, South Africa, explains the term "Ecosocialism", the crisis of capitalism and the way out with the ecosocialist logic. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Misc • 2017

"Gender raus!" 12 Richtigstellungen zu Antifeminismus und Gender-Kritik

By: Franziska Schutzbach

Angriffe gegen Feminismus, gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensweisen und emanzipative Familien- und Lebensmodelle, gegen Gender Studies, Gleichstellungs- und Antidiskriminierungspolitiken werden seit längerem in Zeitungen, Rundfunk- und Fernsehsendungen, Blogs, Artikeln und Büchern kontrovers verhandelt. Dies spiegelt sich auch in vielen Auseinandersetzungen im Alltag, in der Kneipe und auf...

Scientific paper • 2017

Ecology and Justice: Contributions from the margins

By: Daniel Hausknost, Mladen Domazet (ed.), Marija Brajdić Vuković, Melita Carević, Karin Doolan, Pinija Poljaković, Drago Župarić-Iljić

The publisher: Political ecology is a research approach that combines the disciplinary tools of ecology as well as political economy to address the relations between humans and nature, and various outcomes of social and cultural norms that determine different human communities’ access to nature. Political ecology seeks explanations and interpretations of the phenomena resulting from the...

Report • 2016

Queer-Feministische Ökonomiekritik

By: trouble everyday collective

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Queer-Feministische Ökonomiekritik geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt...

Scientific paper • 2016

Where would gender relations stand in a Degrowth economy?

By: Katherine Lindsay-Smith

Keywords: degrowth; gender relations; political economy

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth practices under non-binary gender insight in Barcelona

By: Helena Sanz-Requejo

Recently, Degrowth scholars have started to connect with feminist thought and claims. In particular, building on feminist economics, degrowthers have been studying the unequal distribution of work, like care work, among gender and what this implies to degrowth society envision. However, Degrowth scholarships fall short on the complexity and the plurality of gender relations. Indeed, the...

Interview • 2015

Interview: Daniela Gottschlich - Elevate Festival 2015

By: Daniela Gottschlich

Interview: Daniela Gottschlich - Elevate Festival 2015 from Elevate Festival on Vimeo. Daniela Gottschlich spricht über räumliche und zeitliche Externalisierung sowie die Rolle des Elevate Festivals in ihrer eigenen Arbeit und Resonanz.

Presentation • 2015

Wer kann die neue Zukunft machen?

By: Frigga Haug, Katja Kipping, Evgeny Morozov, Anke Domscheit-Berg

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Commons, Share-Economy und 4in1 – Alternativen zum Kapitalismus. Eine politische Debatte, moderiert von Katja Kipping. Sie diskutiert mit Evgeny Morozov, Frigga Haug und Anke Domscheit-Berg. Dass «jede alte Gesellschaft mit einer neuen schwanger geht» wusste schon Marx. Was das heute – nach dem Scheitern von Staatsozialismus und neoliberalem Kapitalismus – genau...

Scientific paper • 2014

Degrowth and Ecofeminism: Perspectives for Economic Analysis and Political Engagement

By: Christine Bauhardt

Abstract: The paper deals with three approaches conceived as alternative models to the capitalist growth economy: Green New Deal, Degrowth, and Solidarity Economy. Ecofeminist economics has much to offer to each of these approaches, but as yet these contributions remain unrealized. The Green New Deal largely represents the green economy, which makes economic success contingent on the ecological...

Scientific paper • 2014

The environmental crisis and the animal industry–an ecofeminist perspective

By: Livia Boscardin

Degrowth, ecofeminism, environmental crisis, animal liberation

Scientific paper • 2014

Growth, Domination and Democracy. Shortcomings of the (De-)Growth Debate

By: Ulrich Brand

degrowth, domination, democracy, Marxism, feminism

Scientific paper • 2014

A dialogue with feminisms: Mining, social movements and horizons of transformation

By: Mar Daza

Abstract: A new cycle of colonial expansion for the massive extraction of common goods is currently restructuring the relationship between humanity and nature, and thus the relationship between market, autonomous societies and State as well as the relations between global North and South and gender relations. This reality issues a complicated challenge to social movements seeking...

Scientific paper • 2014

The centrality of the issue of care in confrontation between the feminist movement and the degrowth movement

By: Marco Deriu

Abstract: The international feminist movement has developed a critique of the dominant economic model that has many aspects in common with the criticism made by the movement for degrowth. In general terms we can say that in both movements it's possible to find a critique of the centrality of productive performance and an emphasis on breeding conditions and community regeneration. Either propose...

Scientific paper • 2014

Sumak Kawsay: Living non-‐capitalist values in a capitalist world.

By: Lucia Gallardo

Sumak Kawsay, anti-capitalist, Eurocentric, indigenous women, non-capitalist values, emergence and time

Scientific paper • 2014

SOCIALISM - ECOLOGISM - FEMINISM Tributaries for building new movements, new paradigms, new communities and new societies

By: Eduardo Giesen

Abstract: The central idea is that for progressing in the construction and - before - in imagination of new models of society, it is necessary, essential, the convergence of socio-political streams -socialism, environmentalism and feminism- that mainly represent cultural changes and social movements in recent decades. Convergence should include but exceed meeting in public demonstrations and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Principles and ethics of caring and sustainable economy

By: Daniela Gottschlich

Abstract: Feminist approaches take the rationale of care as a normative guideline that offers an opportunity to deal with the numerous socio-ecological crises caused by e.g. the rationale of development and resource extractivism. Taking the accumulation of capital as a guiding principle does not have a neutral effect on the efforts to secure sustainable livelihoods. On the contrary, it promotes...

Scientific paper • 2014

Economy, Ecommony, CareCommony

By: Friederike Habermann

care, commons, externalisations, extractivism, commonsbased peerproduction

Scientific paper • 2014

Buddhist Economics beyond Schumacher - How can contemporary research on Buddhist Economics inform degrowth- approaches?

By: Katharina Hirschbrunn

Buddhist Economics, Sufficiency, Feminist Economics, Work, Employment

Scientific paper • 2014

Extractivism, neocolonialism and redistribution

By: Esperanza Martinez

Abstract: Our era is characterized by the end of easy-to-extract oil reserves. Unconventional and risky extraction techniques are proliferating. Oil extraction as motor of an economy has always had significant consequences for social and political organization, which are best understood if one looks at the different stages of oil exploitation, from prospection through production, processing and...