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Interview • 2015

Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien

Dokumentation eines Interviews in Rahmen der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 „Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit“ Titel des Kurses: Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien Kurzbeschreibung: Vaishali Patil, Klimaaktivistin in der Konkan-Region in Maharashtra/ Indien, spricht interviewt von Steffen Lange vom Konzeptwerk für Neue Ökonomie über die Folgen von Ressourcenabbau für Indien, globale...

Misc • 2015

Aus dem globalen Süden lernen!

By: Rosangela Alves de Oliveira, Paul Singer, Flávio Chedid, Farida Akhtar

Videoaufzeichnung der Podiumsdiskussion "Aus dem globalen Süden lernen!" vom Solikon-Kongress für Solidarische Ökonomie und Transformation 2015 in Berlin. Aus dem Programm: Fokus des Podiums ist die Bewegung der Solidarischen Ökonomie in Brasilien. Dort geht der Aufbau Solidarischer Ökonomie aus vom "Forum Solidarische Ökonomie", sowie von den geforderten politischen Rahmenbedingungen über das...

Interview • 2015

„Movimiento Vivir Bien“ gegen Kupferminen in Ecuador

By: Jose Cueva

Dokumentation eines Interviews in Rahmen der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 „Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit“ Titel:: "Movimiento Vivir Bien" gegen Kupferminen in Ecuador Kurzbeschreibung: Jose Cueva, Aktivist aus der Region Intag/ Ecuador, erzählt vom Widerstand seiner Community gegen den Kupferabbau, den damit verbundenen Problemen, Zwischenerfolgen und der Wirkung von gemeinsamem Protest.

Scientific paper • 2015

Sold Futures? The Global Availability of Metals and Economic Growth at the Peripheries: Distribution and Regulation in a Degrowth Perspective

By: Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk, Werner Zittel

Abstract  In recent years, the strategic role certain metals play is seen as central to the geopolitics promulgated by state agents in the North. While a switch to renewable energy and an increase in energy efficiency might be instrumental to reducing dependence on fossil energy, it increases dependence on metals. This paper starts from an analysis of the likely availability of metals in...

Position paper • 2015

Debt, plunder and degrowth

By: Nicolas Sersiron

"Debt is essential to the development of capitalism, it forces to produce more and more for foreign markets. Debt is an accelerator of extractivism at the base of capitalist accumulation and a means to appropriate the economic growth of other countries: those in the periphery." (Excerpt)

Scientific paper • 2014

Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism in Latin America

By: Alberto Acosta

extractivism, neocolonialism, redistribution, ecological costs

Scientific paper • 2014

Redefining sustainability, resilience and Buen Vivir in a Social Knowledge economy context: The Ecuador experiment

By: Nicholas Anastasopoulos

Abstract: Plan Nacional Buen Vivir de Ecuador 2013-2017 places special emphasis on sustainability at all levels, social, environmental and financial, as expressed in the twelve National Objectives for Good Living, including the Guarantee of the Rights of Nature and the Promotion of a Healthy and Sustainable Environment. Research undertaken by FLOK Society in Ecuador is an experiment of global...

Scientific paper • 2014

Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Degrowth: Is it possible a common platform of action and discourse?

By: Alan Boccato-Franco, Elimar Nascimento

Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to analyze to what measure, apparently very distinct movements like Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Degrowth, have the conditions to provide a common platform. So, through the identification of a given textual corpora for both movements, it was possible to verify and compare their theoretical-conceptual basis. The analysis of the basic corpora consisted...

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

Latin America and De-Growth: A Chance to Finally Overcome Underdevelopment

By: Natalia Bracarense

Abstract: Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies: an “outward-oriented” program based on exports of primary commodities and, alternatively, a domestic industrialization from within strategy. A consensus that both models failed to achieve sustainable development in Latin America opened space for rethinking development theory and policy in the beginning of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?

By: Ulrich Brand

Abstract: Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective? There are at two continents two thrilling debates taking place. In Europe, the degrowth perspective pushes a dynamic political and scientific debate in Europe which started some years ago in order to develop alternatives to the business-as-usual strategies. Since the beginning of the economic crisis, those strategies...

Scientific paper • 2014

Tax internationally traded commodities to safeguard biodiversity

By: Michael Curran, Laura de Baan, Thomas Koellner, Carlo Rondinini, Piero Visconti, Stefanie Hellweg

Biodiversity loss, agriculture, ecological tax, compensation

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

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

Environmental movements and commoning strategies in Puerto Rico: challenging the growth paradigm?

By: Gustavo Garcia-Lopez

de-growth, common-pool resources, social movements, community-based resource management

Scientific paper • 2014

Economic growth and human needs satisfaction across-socio economic groups in Peru. An illustration using the Human Scale Development Approach

By: Monica Guillen

human needs, international development, wellbeing, economic growth, values

Scientific paper • 2014

Dual Development and the denial of social requirements by logics of Growth and Degrowth ("Special Session: Social Inequality and Degrowth")

By: Stefanie Huertgen

Abstract: I argue that a coincidence of growing profits and growing consumption / wages cannot be presumed any longer. Even if many participants of the Degrowth-Debate do so, the equation of economic Growth of enterprises and consumptive Growth of the population (at least in the Global North) is in itself bound to imaginations coming from the postwar (“fordist”) period and the class-compromise...

Scientific paper • 2014

Subjective wellbeing in Colombia

By: Alexander Krauss

subjective wellbeing, happiness, Colombia, unemployment, life satisfaction

Scientific paper • 2014

The social construction of green and social inclusive technological discourses in the Global South: evidence from India and Bangladesh

By: Mario Pansera

Abstract: The process of technological innovation is widely considered to be crucial to enable human development and to guarantee environmental sustainability. However, the process of development in the so-called Global South has delivered controversial outcomes in terms of social and environmental sustainability. Does this setting present new forms of sustainable futures or is it rather...

Scientific paper • 2014

What have traditional hunter-gatherers got to say about happiness?

By: Aili Pyhälä

Abstract: The last few decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies addressing the concept of “happiness”. However, the existing literature is highly biased to a) income-related studies; b) modern, industrialized societies; and c) single case studies. There is scarce research on cross-cultural understandings of happiness, particularly from small-scale, preindustrial...