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Scientific paper • 2014

State- prescribed (re)productivity? The Philippine Legislation on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Crisis

Abstract: (Re) productivity transports a concept of sustainable society where boundaries between different forms of work and productivity are subject to annulment. In the Philippines, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act recognizes the right to collective ownership of land and considers a broad variety of economic, social and cultural land uses. Even if not titled the same, the concept of...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Great Recession and Health: From Neoliberal Austerity to “Healthy De-Growth”

By: Roberto De Vogli

Abstract: Since the eve of the meltdown, global unemployment has increased by more than 30 million people, but has the financial crisis also affected our health? Evidence indicates that the Great Recession led to increases in unemployment and suicides rates both in Europe and in the United States. While financial crises are associated with rising unemployment, social instability and the rise of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Going beyond organized modernity : The Age of environmentalism ?

By: Timothée Duverger

organized modernity – environmentalism – self government – heteronomy

Scientific paper • 2014

Accountability, Democracy, and Post-growth: Civil Society Rethinking Political Economy and Finance.

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

Economic crisis, civil society, social change, accountability, degrowth

Scientific paper • 2014

Rethinking the Role of the Economy and Financial Markets

By: Tony Greenham, Josh Ryan Collins

Abstract: The financial crisis is as much a crisis of economics as of the financial system. Inherent flaws in the modern monetary system overlay and magnify conceptual flaws in prevailing neo-liberal economic policy that rely on frameworks ill-suited to the current context of ecological and social problems. Our response therefore needs to address both the reform of the financial system and a...

Scientific paper • 2014

Financialisation and the ambivalence of capitalist growth

By: Julian Müller

Abstract: This 2013 paper – an updated version of which I would like to present at the conference – examines the ambivalence of capitalist growth and accumulation, that is, the simultaneous combination of dynamic and restrictive tendencies. At the most abstract level, this ambivalence is related to the existence of three different forms or circuits of capital. At a more concrete level, the...

Scientific paper • 2014

The experience of the Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy in Friuli Venezia Giulia: new proposal for alternative economic models

By: Lucia Piani, Nadia Carestiato, Ferruccio Nilia

Abstract: Faced with the economic crisis that is affecting in particular the Western countries, in October 2012 in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) began the experience of the "Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy". It is configured as a territorial laboratory in which different areas of knowledge, different subjects and different experiences confront each other with the purpose of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Political Ecology and Degrowth

By: Michalis Theodoropoulos

Political Ecology; Degrowth; Crisis Exit Strategy; Green movement

Report • 2014

Other cities in crisis can learn from Detroit’s bankruptcy-fostered Degrowth Machine Politics.

By: Seth Schindler

The publisher: The city of Detroit was one of the major casualties of the 2008 financial crisis, finally filing for bankruptcy in July 2013. Seth Schindler looks at how the city’s bankruptcy has acted as a catalyst for change. He writes that Detroit has moved from a ‘growth machine politics’ characterised by a push for economic growth at the expense of urban services, to a policy of ‘degrowth’...

Scientific paper • 2014

Detroit after bankruptcy: A case of degrowth machine politics

By: Seth Schindler

austerity urbanism, degrowth, Detroit, growth coalitions, municipal bankruptcy, neoliberalism

Presentation • 2014

Keynote speeches - Facing the current crises: critique and resistance

By: Barbara Muraca, Haris Konstatatos

Recorded keynote speeches at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speeches by Haris Konstatatos and Barbara Muraca. The topic of the day is "Facing the current crises: critique and resistance". Haris Konstatatos: Social-ecological crisis & crisis of democracy: a view from Southern Europe The accelerating...

Presentation • 2014

Responses to the eurocrisis: Strategies for the degrowth-movement

By: Steffen Lange, Steffen Lange, Nicola Bullard, Nicola Bullard, Tadzio Müller, Tadzio Müller, Giorgos Velegrakis, Giorgos Velegrakis

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Steffen Lange, Giorgos Velegrakis, Nicola Bullard Facilitation: Tadzio Müller Further below you can choose to start watching the video at a specific point, e.g. with the contribution of Nicola Bullard or just watch the discussion From the conference...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Great Transition

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

The publisher: Recent events including the financial crisis and the gradual lessening of the planet’s natural resources have raised the fundamental question as to whether the capitalist market system can survive its own contradictions or whether we are witnessing the outset of a profound change in civilization. By deploying the tools of the science of complexity alongside those of historical...

Misc • 2014

The Solidarity Economy Alternative: Emerging Theory and Practice

By: Vishwas Satgar (editor)

The publisher: Our contemporary world is plagued by a deep crisis that threatens the survival of our species and the planet. In the midst of this dire situation, we are being misled to believe by transnational corporations, governments, mainstream media networks and spin doctors that neoliberal capitalism has all the answers and can overcome any crisis. But can more of the same and a blind...

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Kapital gezähmt ...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Antworten auf die Eurokrise: Strategien für die Degrowth-Bewegung" mit Nicola Bullard, Tadzio Müller, Steffen Lange und Giorgos Velegrakis. Im Report wird zunächst auf die Eurokrise sowie Europa eingegangen und dann von der Podiumsveranstaltung berichtet. Aus dem Bericht: Die Eurokrise mit ihren in der jüngeren europäischen...

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Sozioökologische Auswege ...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Sozial-ökologische Krise & Krise der Demokratie: eine Sicht aus Südeuropa" mit Haris Konstantatos. Aus dem Bericht:. . . Haris Konstantatos, der dem Zentralkomitee der Linkspartei Syriza angehört, stellt diesem orthodoxen Ansatz linker Politik und dem Neoliberalismus die seiner Ansicht nach aussichtsreiche Alternative der...

Interview • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Zwei Seiten einer Medaille ... Nicola Bullard im Gespräch

By: Nicola Bullard, Schattenblick

Interview mit Nicola Bullard im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Interview: . . . Im Anschluß an die Podiumsdiskussion zur Eurokrise beantwortete sie dem Schattenblick einige Fragen zu den Basisbewegungen des globalen Südens, dem Umgang mit Krisen in verschiedenen Weltregionen, den Entwicklungsperspektiven der Schwellenländer und der Vernetzung der zahllosen lokalen...

Interview • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Planiertes Leben ... Haris Konstantatos im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Haris Konstantatos

Interview mit Haris Konstantatos im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Interview: . . . Die Analyse mit der mehrheitlichen Zustimmung in Syriza lautet, daß die Tatsache, daß die EU sich in neoliberale Richtung bewegt, eine Frage des Verhältnisses der politischen Kräfte in den EU-Ländern selbst und in der EU als ganzes ist. Es ist strukturell verankert, hat aber zur gleichen...

Misc • 2014

Zwickmühle Kapitalismus - Auswüchse und Auswege

By: Klaus Simon

Es muss sich was ändern! Spätestens seit der aktuellen Finanzkrise spüren wir es alle: Mit diesem System stimmt etwas nicht. Anhand klarer Zahlen und verblüffender Fakten gibt Klaus Simon einen sehr verständlichen Überblick, wie der globale Finanzmarkt-Kapitalismus abläuft – und warum er auf Dauer nicht funktioniert. Es besteht dringend Handlungsbedarf, doch Sozial- und Finanzmarkt-Reformen...

Report • 2013

Wirtschaftswende - Hintergrundpapier

By: Nina Treu, Christopher Laumanns, Lena Kirschenmann und Kai Kuhnhenn

Um das Konzept von Wirtschaftswende zu erörtern, erstellten Nina Treu, Christopher Laumanns, Lena Kirschenmann und Kai Kuhnhenn ein 30-seitiges Hintergrundpapier. Darin analysieren sie zunächst die Ursachen der Eurokrise und zeigen auf, welche Aspekte im öffentlichen Diskurs oft vernachlässigt werden. Zu jedem dieser Probleme zeigen sie einen möglichen Lösungspfad auf. Dieses Hintergrundpapier...