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Democratic values as a debatable legitimation of growth
By: Tobias Vogel
growth legitimation by democracic values, comparison of status, unequality, cultural enforcement of growth, consumption
Welzer wundert sich
By: Harald Welzer
In dieser Kolumne in der Deutschen Ausgabe des National Geographic Magazins wundert sich Harald Welzer über allerlei Normalitäten unserer Zeit. Darunter: Kreuzfahrten, Innovation, Turbokapitalisten, mangelnde Wertschätzung, Smartphones, Fremdenversorgung, Aufrüstung und Gipfeltreffen. Zitat aus "Abkoppelung von da draußen": . . . Wenn wir mal unsere soziale Umwelt im haeckelschen Sinn...
GAP working group 2014 - Learning for degrowth
By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014
Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Learning for degrowth at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Contents – What to learn for Degrowth? > Learning should be more focused on skills an competences and less on theoretical knowledge. > Important skills to be strengthened in education are: critical thinking, creativity, self-consciousness, (non-violent) communication,...
Education and/or Transformation?
By: Susanne Brehm
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 Learning for degrowth.
How to produce for degrowth? Rediscovering manual skills and peasantry
By: Sylvain Fischer
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 Technology and Production.
Suffizienz vs. Gegenkultur
By: Harald Welzer, Uwe Schneidewind, Anja Humburg
Diskussionsveranstaltung auf der 4. Internationalen Degrowth Konferenz für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig im Jahr 2014. Sprecher: Harald Welzer, Uwe Schneidewind Moderation: Anja Humburg Aus dem Konferenz Programm: Die deutsche Postwachstumsdebatte ist eng verknüpft mit der dritten Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie: Suffizenz. Doch während manche Autoren auf die...
How growth enters our imaginaries and how we may get rid of it
By: Hartmut Rosa, Laura Bazzicalupo
Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Laura Bazzicalupo and Hartmut Rosa. Laura Bazzicalupo: Ambivalence of dispositifs of subjectivation in the biocapitalist imaginary Hartmut Rosa: Striving for growth, yearning for degrowth? Resonance as a solution to the good-life problem
Scenarios for a post-growth economy
By: Niko Paech, Clive Spash
Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Niko Paech and Clive Spash. Niko Paech: An Introduction to Post-growth Economies Clive Spash: A Future Social Ecological Economy: Reality-Transformation-Utopia Discussion with Niko Paech and Clive Spash
The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
By: Wayne Ellwood
Abstract: The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by progressives as the only possible solution for our economic and social woes. This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to...
The Waiting Room | The Degrowth Performance Project
By: friendly fire, Peter Stamer, Diego Agullò, Clément Layes, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Fräulein Bernd, Lukas Bugiel, Sylvia Kadur, Maix Mayer, Anna Pescke, Angelika Waniek, Laris Hemken, Beide Messies
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A Degrowth Project: « And What If We No Longer Had To Work? »
By: Vincent Liegey
From the text: In order to move beyond a productivist vision of life, we have to question the notion of work itself, which, for the most part, serves to sustain a system of profound inequality. We need to break from “sacrosanct economic growth”, “abandoning work-based ways of thinking, putting the economy and our obsession with the bottom line back where they belong, rejecting the view that...
Who says what is absurd? A case study on being(s) in an alternative normality
By: Corinna Burkhart
normality, norms, practical defamiliarization, degrowth, cross-normality experience, change
Selbst denken
By: Harald Welzer
Untertitel:Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand Der Verlag: Wie ist uns eigentlich die Zukunft abhandengekommen? Was war noch mal die Frage, auf die Fortschritt und Wachstum eine Antwort sein sollten? Und: Wie kann aus der Zukunft wieder ein Versprechen werden statt einer Bedrohung? Harald Welzers Buch gibt Antworten auf diese Fragen. Es lotet die Abgründe des erdrückenden Konsumwahns und politischen...
Degrowth, Democracy and Autonomy
By: Giorgos Kallis, Viviana Asara, Emanuele Profumi
Degrowth, autonomy, direct democracy, revolution, Castoriadis, democracy, social imaginary
Beschleunigung und Entfremdung - Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit
By: Hartmut Rosa
Der Verlag: »Was ist ein gutes Leben – und warum haben wir keins?« Die rasante Beschleunigung des sozialen Lebens ist eines der hervorstechenden Merkmale der Gegenwart, wird in den Sozialwissenschaften aber häufig übersehen. Hartmut Rosa hat mit seinen maßgeblichen Untersuchungen diesbezüglich Grundlagenarbeit geleistet. In seinem neuen Essay legt er dar, wie eine kritische Gesellschaftstheorie...
Translating degrowth into contemporary policy challenges: a symbiotic social transformation strategy
By: Mary P. Murphy
degrowth, eco-socialism, employment, care, political alliances, imaginaries
Alphabet
By: Erwin Wagenhofer
alphabet-film.com: . . . Denn neuerdings weht an den Schulen ein rauer Wind. „Leistung“ als Fetisch der Wettbewerbsgesellschaft ist weltweit zum unerbittlichen Maß aller Dinge geworden. Doch die einseitige Ausrichtung auf technokratische Lernziele und auf die fehlerfreie Wiedergabe isolierter Wissensinhalte lässt genau jene spielerische Kreativität verkümmern, die uns helfen könnte, ohne Angst...
8 videos with Vincent Liegey on Degrowth
By: Vincent Liegey
8 short videos, between 2 and 8 minutes long, about some basic facets of the degrowth movement: #1 Degrowth as a provocative slogan #2 Degrowth as concept of reappropriation of fundamentals of life #3 The physical limits to growth #4 Degrowth and the religion of Growth #5 Degrowth Project #6 History of Degrowth #7 Degrowth and the crises #8 About the book « A Degrowth Projet »
Voluntary Simplicity and the Social Reconstruction of Law: Degrowth from the Grassroots Up
By: Samuel Alexander
degrowth; grassroots; sufficiency; sustainable consumption; transition towns; voluntary simplicity
In What Way Does Degrowth Reconstruct the Ethical System of Modernity?
By: Yoshihiro Nakano
From the introducion: . . .From this vantage, Serge Latouche’s Sortir de la société de consommation (SSC) (2010) makes a fresh contribution to our understanding the problem of development. In this book, he discusses limitations of productivist development model by illuminating flaws in its ethical system. In this article, I examine the contents of the book in the following manner. In the second...