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Report • 2016

Degrowth - from the Myth of Abundance to Voluntary Simplicity

By: Manu Picazo Casariego, Luis Picazo Casariego

Documentary about Degrowth "There exists a world, the world as it is now, a world of desire, of ‘having’ and ‘always more’, characterized by the absence of any restraint on economic growth. A world which is collapsing right now due to the decline of energy resources and raw materials, and the environmental crisis. But another world exists, the one that’s coming, the world of ‘being’, where...

Art contribution • 2016

Eco-modernism vs. Degrowth

By: Students of the Summer School on Degrowth, Environmental Justice

A sketch by students of the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice

Presentation • 2016

Capitalism and (de)growth

By: Susan Paulson, Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, György Pataki

The discussion of the plenary "Capitalism and (de)growth" is outlining the key degrowth challenges, such as the internal contradictions of capitalism, exiting growth and comparing the transition experiences and potentials in the parts of the world where they originate from. Speaker: Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, Susan Paulson Facilitator: György Pataki 31/08/2016, Degrowth Conference...

Misc • 2016

Adieu, Wachstum! Das Ende einer Erfolgsgeschichte

By: Norbert Nicoll

Norbert Nicoll liefert eine reichhaltige, kritische Darstellung der kapitalistischen Wachstumsidee. Er macht anschaulich, wie diese historisch entstanden ist, wie sie einen kleinen Teil Privilegierter reich gemacht hat und uns nun in eine Klima-, Energie- und Ressourcenkrise führt. In einer Tour de Force bringt er uns Fakten aus Ökologie, Ökonomie, Soziologie, Geologie, Geschichts- und...

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

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - The Realities and Contradictions of the Growth Economy and Challenges for a Social Ecological Transformation

By: Clive Spah

Keynote session by Clive Spash. Clive covers growth and its contradictions and challenges for degrowth and social ecological transformation. Facilitator: Filka Sekulova

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - How to stop monetary growth pressure?

By: Mark Joób

Presentation by Mark Joób Generally, there is not enough awareness of the central role the monetary system plays with regard to sustainability. One of the main reasons is that for several decades economics has been dominated by a monetary theory that gives a false description of the monetary system and the role of money in the economy. Assuming that money on the macroeconomic level is...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Economic values, capital accumulation and degrowth

By: Mikael Malmaeus

Presentation by Mikael Malmaeus Historically, value theories used to be at the heart of critiques of capitalism. However, contemporary economists rarely focus on value theories, and the labor theory of value has not been discussed in relation to macroeconomic growth or in the context of degrowth. In this article it is theoretically and empirically demonstrated that economic values at the...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - On degrowth in the South: The Case of India

By: Alex Jensen

A thorough and detailed overview of the socioeconomic situation in India and the extent to which the Degrowth discourse can be extended in countries beyond the Global North. The speaker explores the aftermath of the neoliberalization of India: from GDP and billionaires growth to the extreme wealth gap alongside increasing inequality, unemployment, extreme air pollution, fossil fuels...

Scientific paper • 2015

The Future Post-Growth Society

By: Clive Spash

Review Essay: Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill, Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Scientific paper • 2015

Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Hug March

economic growth, limits, scarcity, scale, utopias

Interview • 2015

Sind wir noch zu retten?

By: Alexander Jung, Hor, Knaup, Samiha Shafy, Bernhard Zand

Titel “Story” des Spiegels “Der verheizte Planet" im Februar 2015. Es geht um den Klimawandel. Anlass für den Artikel ist das zeitnah veröffentlichte Buch von Naomi Klein “This changes everything”. In diesem Kontext taucht auch die “Degrowth Bewegung” im Artikel auf. Der Spiegel 9/2015, S.56 – 64 Zur Titelstory gehört auch ein Interview mit Naomi Klein: "Der kaputte Planet"

Scientific paper • 2015

Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability

By: Federico Demaria, Viviana Asara, Iago Otero, Esteve Corbera

Introduction to the Special Feature: "Socially Sustainable Degrowth as a Social-Ecological Transformation". Sustainability Science, July 2015, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 375-384

Report • 2015

Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism

By: Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

The authors, all well known voices in movements that promote alternatives to capitalism, criticise current and past environmental, economic and social politics. In the context of this critique they describe existing alternative narratives, movements, ideas, such as: buen vivir, ubuntu, radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj and degrowth. > German version of the article

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...

Report • 2015

Their recession is not our degrowth!

By: Federico Demaria

A easy reading article explaining basics of degrowth. At the same time Federico Dearia embeds these basic ideas into the current political situation in Spain and the situation of the ongoing social and environmental crisis. The articel also gives insights to the state of the movement. From the article: "Some critics accuse degrowth of being too unrealistic. But the true fantasy is thinking that...

Report • 2015

The Degrowth Alternative

By: Giorgos Kallis

From the essay: Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth” depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth...

Scientific paper • 2015

Can Green Growth Really Work?

By: Ulrich Hoffmann

Can Green Growth Really Work and what are the True (Socio-) Economics of Climate Change? Abstract: Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards "green growth" as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, largely based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency, structural changes towards a service-dominated economy and a switch in the energy mix...

Report • 2015

The green Pope: how religion can do economics a favour

By: Andrew Simms

The article connects Pope Francis' Encyclical published in Summer 2015 to ongoing climate change debates, but mainly describes critique of growth and capitalism formulated by the church since medieval times. Also growth critique or practices not following a growth imperative from other religions and philosophies are topic of the article. Published on 18 June 2015, in the Guardian: Sustainable...