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Misc • 2016

Resonanz - Eine Soziologie der Weltbeziehung

Wenn Beschleunigung das Problem ist, dann ist Resonanz vielleicht die Lösung. Dies ist, auf die kürzestmögliche Formel gebracht, die Kernthese des neuen Buches von Hartmut Rosa, das als Gründungsdokument einer Soziologie des guten Lebens gelesen werden kann. An seinem Anfang steht die Behauptung, dass sich die Qualität eines menschlichen Lebens nicht in der Währung von Ressourcen, Optionen und...

Misc • 2016

Resonanzpädagogik - Wenn es im Klassenzimmer knistert

By: Hartmut Rosa

Hartmut Rosa weckt mit seiner Forschung zu gelingendem Leben große Aufmerksamkeit. Übertragen auf Bildungsprozesse und Schulsystem, führt seine Theorie der Resonanz zur Neubetrachtung von Schule und Unterricht – zur Resonanzpädagogik. Doch wie zeigt sich Resonanz in der Schule? Dieser und weiteren Fragen ist Wolfgang Endres im Gespräch mit Hartmut Rosa nachgegangen. Daraus ist ein Buch...

Scientific paper • 2016

Moving Critique Beyond 'Moses and the Prophets' Notes for an Ecological Political Economy of Degrowth in Advanced Capitalism

By: Eric Pineault

Keywords: Capitalism, Degrowth, Overaccumulation, Economic Growth, Surplus.

Scientific paper • 2016

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and degrowth

By: Antoine Missemer

Keywords: History of economic thought, Georgescu-Roegen, degrowth, bioeconomics, agrowth

Scientific paper • 2016

A Plea for Degrowth

By: Céline Surprenant

Book review of "Olivier Rey, Une question de taille, Stock, 2014, 288 p." From the text: . . . In Une question de taille, Olivier Rey, too, makes disillusioned observations about the progress associated with modernity, post-modernity, indeed hypermodernity. Yet, while his predecessors, such as Günther Anders in The Obsolescence of Man (1956), have highlighted the losses (p. 31) that...

Scientific paper • 2016

Coping with the Horizontal Hitch: The 'Con-Formism' of the Degrowth Alternative

By: Onofrio Romano

Keywords: Degrowth; Mediterranean area; horizontalism; values vs. form; verticalism

Scientific paper • 2016

De-[Constructing] Growth

By: Nicholas A. Ashford

Keywords: degrowth; sustainable consumption; sustainable production; inequality; sustainability; employment

Misc • 2016

Naming the radical movement for alternative economics: D.E.growth

By: Miklós Antal

Critique of the term "degrowth" From the text: . . . However, there are serious downsides. First, degrowth has a downward orientation, and “down is bad” according to a primary metaphor rooted in physical experiences. Already in ancient Rome, down meant death. We feel down and need to be cheered up. Hell is below us, heaven is above. The association of up with good and down with bad will not...

Scientific paper • 2016

Metamorphosis I: A study of Degrowth, investigating conceptual sustainability in theory and transformative potential in practice

By: J.E. Vetter

keywords: Degrowth, Sustainability, Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, Triple-Bottom Line, Whole-Systems, Transformation, System's Change, Transition Management, Ecovillages, Ecovillage, Tamera, Damanhur

Misc • 2016

Der Schritt zur Seite

By: Marc Hieronimus

Der Verlag über das Buch: „Alles anhalten. Nachdenken. Und das ist keine traurige Angelegenheit.“ So lautete das Motto einer französischen Comic-Kolumne der Siebziger Jahre, als weltweit die letzten Utopien geschrieben wurden. Vierzig Jahre später haben sich Krempel und Rummel vervielfacht, und die Welt steht am Abgrund: Klimawandel, Verseuchung der Böden, der Meere, der Luft und das größte...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth and Ecological Economics in 21st Century Spain: Toward a Posthumanist Economy

By: Luis I. Prádanos

From the text: ". . . In the next few pages, I will lead with the way Spanish authors I mentioned unveil some of the unscientific assumptions behind the neoclassical and neoliberal economics that currently dominate the global scenario in general, and the European Union debate in particular. I then will analyze the common ground within the alternatives proposed by these writers. [. . .] Finally,...

Misc • 2016

Cultures of Energy Ep. # 16 – Giorgos Kallis

By: Giorgos Kallis

The publisher: It’s a deep dive into “degrowth” this week on the Cultures of Energy podcast. We welcome (6:57) Giorgos Kallis, a political ecologist and ecological economist based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, who has authored several influential papers on the theory and practice of degrowth as an antidote to contemporary notions of green economy and sustainability...

Scientific paper • 2016

Technology appropriation in a de-growing economy

By: Lukáš Likavčan, Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

Keywords: Political economy; Technological change; De-growth; Actor-network theory; Habilitation; Information and communication technologies

Scientific paper • 2016

Back to the future: a debate among socialists at the dawn of industrialism

By: Hatice Çıvgın

The beginning of the 19th century is considered as the dawn of industrialism, economics and socialism. When J. B. Say proposed the concept of industrialism, Charles Fourier, the father of socialism, immediately challenged the term. Similarly, Simond de Sismondi was another thinker who contested the concept. Later, however, in this era, industrialism became the mainstream ideology of both the...

Scientific paper • 2016

Community Building According to Hannah Arendt

By: Pierre Tosi

«Are contemporary homo sapiens necessarily a homo faber as well? Can inspiration for a new narrative be found in the cultural past?» Interesting suggestions about this were given by Hannah Arendt, above all in her "The Human Condition" (1958). The Jewish philosopher thought that the contemporary commingling of "homo faber" (maker of handworks and instruments) and "homo laborans" (producer of...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth and Capitalism

By: Dennis Eversberg, Barbara Muraca, Eric Pineault

Modern western societies stabilize themselves through economic growth. As long as growth is maintained, stability is continuously, yet dynamically restored. It is getting increasingly obvious that this dynamisation logic is reaching its limits, triggering negative effects for the socio-economic, political and cultural reproduction of capitalism. In industrialized countries, further growth seems...

Scientific paper • 2016

Environmental selves and alternative meanings of work

By: Kristoffer Wilén

Our article is based on interviews with 20 self-declared environmentally conscious individuals, and by drawing on theories of performativity (Judith Butler), we have studied the ways in which questions of work and working life are negotiated within the formation of green selves (identities). We believe that our findings are relevant for understanding how environmental concerns generate...

Scientific paper • 2016

Exploring Degrowth Pathways Using System Dynamics

By: Therese Bennich

During the 40 years that have passed since the publication of The Limits to Growth, the concept of degrowth and system dynamics have sometimes developed separately. There is now increasing evidence supporting the conclusions of The Limits to Growth and degrowth is a concept being discussed both in the academic and public debate. There is a need to look at potential ways to adapt to the limits...

Scientific paper • 2016

Framing the Privacy Debate and Big Data Governmentality in Degrowth Theory

By: Julien Rossi

Data surveillance by private companies and public intelligence agencies is intricated, and research has shown how citizens have become willing participants in their own surveillance. This brings forth a new type of governmentality that is legitimised by hegemonic imaginaries on “Big Data” and innovation which are closely related to the imaginary of technological growth. The Snowden disclosures...

Scientific paper • 2016

Has degrowth outgrown its own name? In defence of an ugly frame.

By: Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Degrowth was first used and find its roots in the 1970s debate of the limits to growth. At the beginning of the 2000s it was launched as a slogan by activists, and in the following decade turned into a frame for a social movement as well as a concept debated in academia. Although its origins have been traced (Demaria et al 2013), two main issues remain contested and in need of clarification: 1)...