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Scientific paper • 2014

Critique and the Organization of Production

New Spirit of Capitalism, Artistic Critique, Social Critique, Growth Critique, Coordination of Work Strategies for transformation

Scientific paper • 2014

Grassroots Innovation For Sustainability: The Diffusion of Community Supported Agriculture in Germany

By: Kristin Reiß

Abstract: Over the last few years niches got more and more discussed as initial point for societal change. But approaches like Strategic Niche Management (SNM) are critisised for its focus on technological niches and its idea of a „top-down-management“, whereby radical alterations in fact is more often initiated by non-governmental groups and parts of civil society. This work attaches itself to...

Scientific paper • 2014

Participation and economic growth in cooperatives: Empirical explorations of a (supposedly) well-known relationship

By: Irma Rybnikova, Ronald Hartz

Abstract: In the present paper we focus on the question to what extent co-operatives can be regarded as participatory forms of organization – as they are often represented – despite the growth-effects. For this, we draw on conceptual as well as empirical material. Whereas the previous research raises serious doubts concerning the role model of cooperatives as participatory firms, the results of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Growing through the Cracks - A multi-case study of two alternative food networks in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

By: Josefin Smeds

Abstract: As a response to limitations of the conventional food system, alternative food networks such as community supported agriculture and direct selling box schemes have emerged in Romania, involving close producer-consumer connections and an emphasis on local and organic produce. Through a multi-case study of two such networks in the city of Cluj-Napoca, their contribution to the...

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Solidarity Economy, Cooperatives and Social Business

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Solidarity Economy, Cooperatives and Social Business at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Vision > We have to get rid of large scale “for-profit” corporations. > Make an economy in the sense of “people before profit”. Transformation > What role can private Enterprise play in the Transition towards Solidarity Economy? >...

Position paper • 2014

Changing the economic system embracing degrowth – for global justice and democracy

By: Elisabeth Voß

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Solidarity Economy, Cooperatives and Social Business.

Report • 2013

L'altra faccia dell'Arancia

By: Federico de Musso

L'altra faccia dell'Arancia from FedericoDeMusso on Vimeo. Published with a Creative Commons license. Title: The other oranges. Solidarity consumer group in Italy, self-organised supply with producers of the region. Only in italian, no subtitles. Titel: Die anderen Orangen Solidarische Einkaufsgruppen in Italien, selbstorganisierte Versorgung mit Erzeugern aus der Region. Nur auf...

Scientific paper • 2012

What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology

By: Sébastien Boillat, Julien-François Gerber, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote

Abstract: While degrowth is about reducing energy and material flows in the economy while sustaining basic human needs, capitalism fosters the opposite trend. How then is degrowth to be implemented on a large scale? In line with different critical intellectual traditions, we argue that degrowth is unlikely to occur within an economy based on capital accumulation and free market of assets. Our...

Scientific paper • 2012

Changing Agriculture: Food Sovereignty of the territories in response to the energy crisis and the new world revolution

By: Michelle Arroyo

Part of the introduction: In México, one of the most agriculturally-based countries in the Americas, there is a growing tendency among rural farmers to promote a new type of rurality. This new approach aims to solve their ecological, economic and social problems through actions that encourage a de-growth instead of a sustainable growth in development. In this essay I aim to contribute to an...

Misc • 2010

Warum wir kooperieren

By: Michael Tomasello

Seit vielen Jahrhunderten wird die Frage nach der Natur des Menschen von zwei grundsätzlichen Positionen bestimmt: Hobbes’ Meinung, daß die Menschen egoistisch zur Welt kommen und die Gesellschaft sie zur Kooperation erziehen muß, und Rousseaus Darstellung, nach der die Menschen von Natur aus kooperativ sind und später von ihrem Umfeld zu Egoisten gemacht werden. In Warum wir kooperieren...

Presentation • 2010

Non-Growth Market Economies

By: Stephan Wolf

Poster and transcription of an poster session by Stephan Wolf at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Non-Growth Market Economies".

Interview • 2010

Critique to neoliberalism & orthodox economics

By: Nadia Johanisova

Short-interview with Nadia Johanisova from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona.