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From the publisher: Before the election of Donald Trump the world was already speeding toward climate catastrophe. Now President Trump has jammed his foot on the global warming accelerator. Is there any way for the rest of us to put on the brakes? Climate insurgency is a strategy for using people power to realize our common interest in protecting the climate. It uses mass, global, nonviolent...

Misc • 2017

The Transition Movements meets De-Growth

By: Richard Swift, Naresh Giangrande

Co-Founder of the Transition Movement, Naresh Giangrande in conversation with Richard Swift, author of SOS Alternatives to Capitalism and a former editor of New Internationalist magazine for more than two decades. These two thinkers were brought together in the Caribbean island of Dominica, with Earthbooktv's Jessica Canham and Timothy Speaks Fishleigh at the Earthbook retreat centre in the...

Report • 2017

Degrowth: the history of an idea

By: Timothée Duverger

Abstract: Degrowth is a concept-platform with multiple meanings, and is shaped by five sources of thought: ecological, bioeconomical, anthropological, democratic, and spiritual. The word appeared in the 1970s, and imposed itself beginning in 2002 owing to the convergence between the criticism of development and the anti-advertising movement, initially in France but later across the European...

Misc • 2017

De-growth is feasible: people want a new economy

By: Jason Hickel

A blog post by Jason Hickel which is the fourth part of a discussion between him and Branko Milanovic. Chronology of the discussion Original blog post by Branko Milanovic "The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal world" First reply by Jason Hickel "Why Branko Milanovic is wrong about de-growth" Reply by Branko Milanovic "The illusion of degrowth: Part II" Second Reply by Jason Hickel...

Report • 2017

Pro-Tourism Consensus Crumbles in Barcelona

By: Kate Shea Baird

Introduction: Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million people, was visited by 8.2 million tourists last year. For decades, city governments of all political stripes operated under the assumption that ‘growth is good’. Each annual increase in visitor numbers was announced with glee, with assurances the sector would bring immense economic benefits to the city. But around three years ago, signs began to...

Misc • 2017

Umkämpftes Grün - Zwischen neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung von unten

By: Andrea*s Exner, Sarah Kumnig, Marit Rosol

Urbane Gärten sind aus vielen Städten nicht mehr wegzudenken. Gemeinschaftlicher Gemüseanbau wird dabei oft als rebellischer Akt der Stadtgestaltung von unten verstanden. Gleichzeitig taucht »urban gardening« immer häufiger in Stadtentwicklungsplänen und Werbebroschüren auf. Die Beiträger_innen des Bandes liefern eine kritische Analyse grüner urbaner Aktivitäten und ihrer umkämpften und...

Misc • 2016

Über Selbstproblematisierung zu Kapitalismuskritik: Die Degrowth-Bewegung

By: Dennis Eversberg, Matthias Schmelzer

"Auch wenn Wachstumskritik en vogue ist – in einer Rangliste der „Top 10 Grassroots Movements“ des australischen „Shift Magazine“ nahm es jüngst sogar den ersten Platz ein – gibt es zu Degrowth als einer sozialen Bewegung bisher kaum Forschungen. In einem neu erscheinenden Aufsatz im Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen präsentieren wir – basierend auf einer Fragebogenerhebung, an der sich 814...

Misc • 2016

Critical Self-Reflection as a Path to Anti-Capitalism: The Degrowth-Movement

By: Dennis Eversberg

"Although growth-critique is currently in vogue and degrowth is mentioned favorably even by the pope in his most recent encyclical, there is as yet almost no scientific research on degrowth as a social movement. We can now present the first empirical findings on the character of this movement, based on a survey we did at the 2014 Degrowth-Conference in Leipzig, in which 814 conference...

Report • 2016

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...

Misc • 2016

Was ist nur aus uns geworden?

By: Harald Welzer

Teaser des Artikels: Die grünen Revolutionäre der siebziger Jahre träumten von einer besseren, umweltbewussten Gesellschaft. Heute betreiben wir Naturschutz mit den Mitteln des Kapitalismus. Das kann nicht gutgehen.

Presentation • 2016

Forming Alliances

By: Nimmo Bassey, Sheila Menon

Keynote on the topic "Forming Alliances" at the Degrowth Summer School 2016. With Nnimmo Bassey and Sheila Menon. From the Program: We want to hear the voices of people who have been part of networks in the struggle for climate justice and a fairer and more sustainable economy and society. For this purpose, we will invite people from the international climate movement and local resistance....

Scientific paper • 2016

The Indignados as a Socio-Environmental Movement: Framing the Crisis and Democracy

By: Viviana Asara

Keywords: 15 M; collective identity; degrowth; democracy; frame analysis; Indignados; New Social Movement; Occupy

Misc • 2016

Accelerationism… and Degrowth? The Left’s Strange Bedfellows

By: Aaron Vansintjan

Over a year ago I lived in Barcelona, where I was lucky enough to witness a social movement—in large part fuelled by cooperatives, squats, and other autonomous spaces—win the mayoral elections. I had spent the year being involved with a group that studies and advocates ‘degrowth’—the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable society, and that we therefore...

Misc • 2016

Degrowth als radikale Strategie – und offene Fragen

By: Ulrich Brand

Ein Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2016 in Budapest von Ulrich Brand. Er geht auf verschiedene Veranstaltungen ein und kontextualisiert die Konferenz im lokalen und bewegungspolitischen Kontext.

Misc • 2016

Degrowth in India: Necessity, Actions and Initiatives

By: Brototi Roy

From the text: The context for a degrowth movement in India differs significantly from that of the Global North. Although founded upon the same philosophical, and ideological basis, the differences in scope between the two are sharp. For India, what is of central importance is the preservation of the “degrowth” paradigm in practice, rather than the establishment of it as a novel paradigm....

Interview • 2016

The Malaise of the Old Left Represents an Opportunity for Degrowth

By: Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey answers questions about the current state of the degrowth movement, degrowth in Eastern Europe and about the European Union. From the text: These days, the degrowth movement is not interested in provocation anymore. Instead it wants to stimulate discussions amongst the people who believe that it is possible to decolonise our minds. Vincent Liegey, the coordinator of the latest...