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Scientific paper • 2016

An understanding of materialistic values in post-socialist Europe

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 European Social Survey (2012), nine of...

Scientific paper • 2016

Contemplative practices to support Degrowth and stem the tide of de-Indigenization

By: Derek Rasmussen

My presentation seeks to weave my 20 years of work with Nunavut Inuit with my meditation teaching among non-Indigenous Euro-Canadians. ‘The Great Transformation’ of market relations compelled a great transformation of learning: disembedding and extracting it from communities and converting it into a scarce new substance called Education. Education is hydroponic cultural transmission for...

Scientific paper • 2016

De-growth, pro what? – Backcasting a sustainable society without economic growth

By: Liisa Haapanen

The positive vision of green growth and the negative outlook of a recession are the prevailing images of future for a growth-centred society. They are challenged by various alternative views of a post-growth society. The purpose of this paper is to specify and elaborate the desired future end-states and scenarios put forward in contemporary growth critique. A literature review of the following...

Scientific paper • 2016

Energy poverty in a degrowth context: an unavoidable struggle?

By: Daniel Gerbery, Lidija Živčič, Lidija Živčič, Richard Filcak, Sergio Tirado Herrero

Austerity-driven, unsustainable degrowth has resulted in a surge of energy poverty in EU and beyond. Understood as the inability of households to secure a materially- and socially-necessitated level of energy services in the home, energy poverty has become a widespread societal concern that demands structural responses. Tensions are foreseen between energy poverty alleviation and degrowth. On...

Scientific paper • 2016

Forging new/old sociocultural systems driven by motives other than growth

By: Elisabeth Skarðhamar Olsen, Lisa L. Gezon, Lisa L. Gezon, Eeva Berglund

Degrowth calls for decolonizing human identities and relationships from values and visions that exalt the endless expansion of production and consumption. This multi-session explores paths toward such decolonization through initiatives to recuperate, adapt and invent sociocultural systems that change the way we humans produce and consume goods and services, and—more powerfully—the ways in which...

Scientific paper • 2016

From societal stupidity to the future based on wisdom enhancing ties between individuals

By: Olli Tammilehto

The global growth society is rapidly destroying its ecological base and consequently also itself. Crushing one's own foundation is surely a mark of stupidity. The madness in question, however, is of societal quality, not reducible to the properties of individuals. On the contrary, according to many opinion polls individual human beings widely recognize the absurdity of economic growth and the...

Scientific paper • 2016

Grassroots movements in Hungary.

By: Zoltan Ferencz

The emerging environmental problems in the 1960s and 1970s were the basis for “Grassroots movements”. The explicit focus on ecological and social sustainability, which is a defining characteristic of ecovillages, arose in the 1990s. In earlier communities, of course, there had been efforts to live in ways that were ecological and in close contact with nature, but the specific sustainability...

Scientific paper • 2016

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...

Scientific paper • 2016

Secular stagnation, new normal, and growth criticism

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Seidl

In 2013, L. Summer brought back the discussion of secular stagnation which has first been introduced by Hansen and Keynes (late 1930s). Summer argues that presently western economies may be facing a such a stagnation (long term stagnation) triggered by the financial crisis and enhanced by decreasing population, shrinking investments and productivity gains, excess of saving, insufficient demand....

Presentation • 2016

FRI_9:30h // Ashish Kothari - Radical alternatives to Unsustainability and inequality

By: Ashish Kothari

Recorded keynote speech at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speaker: Ashish Kotari Degrowth 2016 - English Youtube Channel

Misc • 2016

Im Club der Zeitmillionäre - Wie ich mich auf die Suche nach einem anderen Reichtum machte

By: Greta Taubert

Ist Zeit wirklich Geld? Fühlt man sich reich, wenn man unbegrenzt Zeit hat? Und kann ein anderer Umgang mit Zeit die Gesellschaft verändern? Greta Taubert will wissen, was Zeitwohlstand ist und besucht Menschen, die ihn leben. Sie nimmt sich Zeit, lässt sich treiben, wird inspiriert - und dabei immer aktiver. Im Club der Zeitmillionäre lernt sie neue Lebensentwürfe kennen und wird vor...

Report • 2016

Degrowth Bewegung

By: Hertz 87,9

Link zum Audiobeitrag Unsere Welt steuert immer mehr in eine Richtung, in der das Wohlergehen der Menschen in den Hintergrund gestellt wird. Degrowth, oder auch Postwachstum, ist eine Wirtschaftsweise und Gesellschaftsform, die das ändern möchte.

Misc • 2016

Degrowth Audiobook

By: Robert Orzanna

This is a collaborative podcast project to create an audio book version of the book “Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era” for various languages. English Deutsch Espanol Francais

Misc • 2015

Atlas der Globalisierung - Weniger wird mehr

By: Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften/University of Jena

Le Monde Diplomatique: Im neuen Atlas der Globalisierung geht es um das wichtigste globale Zukunftsthema überhaupt: Postwachstum. Was Wachstum ist, weiß jeder - ohne Wachstum gibt es angeblich keinen Wohlstand, keine Freiheit, keinen Erfolg. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. Wir ahnen schon lange, dass es so nicht weitergehen kann. Aber was dann? Der...

Misc • 2015

Die Welt der Commons

By: Silke Helfrich, David Bollier (Ed.)

Untertitel: Muster gemeinsamen Handelns Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Die Logik des Kapitalismus heißt teilen. Nur teilen darin nicht die Menschen, sondern sie werden geteilt. Der britische Historiker E.P. Thompson befindet deshalb: "Es war immer ein Problem, Commons in kapitalistischen Kategorien zu erklären." Wer die Welt der Commons betritt, begegnet einer anderen Logik, einer anderen Sprache und...

Report • 2015

What does degrowth mean to you?

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video where participants of the Degrowth Conference 2014 share what degrowth means for them.

Report • 2015

Was bedeutet Degrowth für dich?

By: Marc Menningmann

Ein kurzes Video in dem Teilnehmer_innen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 beschreiben was Degrowth für sie bedeutet.

Scientific paper • 2015

Erste Ergebnisse der Teilnehmendenbefragung zur Degrowth-Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig – Ein Überblick über Zusammensetzung, Engagement und Alltagspraktiken der Befragten

By: Dennis Eversberg

Zusammenfassung: Das Working Paper gibt einen ersten deskriptiven Überblick über die Ergebnisse der Befragung der Teilnehmenden der Degrowth-Konferenz im September 2014 in Leipzig. Es gibt Auskunft über die Zusammensetzung der 814 Befragten u.a. nach Alter, Bildung und Geschlecht, ihr politisches und gesellschaftliches Engagement sowie einen Einblick in ihre Alltagspraktiken – von Mobilität und...

Misc • 2015

Sociology, Capitalism, Critique

By: Hartmut Rosa, Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich

Subtitle: Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism The publisher: For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology,...

Misc • 2015

Ergebnisse des degrowth Sommerschul- Kurses Comic Helden* gegen den Klimwandel

By: Eva Kirschenmann

Dokumentation eines Kurses der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 "Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit" Titel des Kurses: Comic-Helden* gegen den Klimawandel Kursbeschreibung aus dem Programm: Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) formuliert international richtungsweisende Handlungsempfehlungen an Politik und Wirtschaft. In seinem Comic "Große...