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Living well on a finite planet. Building a caring world beyond growth

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Basculements Mondes émergents, possibles désirables

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Sustainable Hedonism. A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth

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‘Degrowth’ Isn’t Just About the Economy. It’s About Culture.

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Infinite economic growth caused the environmental crisis. Degrowth will help us fix it

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Scientific paper • 2021

A clean energy future isn’t set in stone

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This is not growing well – Eine Recherche zu relationalen Wachstums- und Entwicklungsbeschreibungen

By: Julia Rosenstock

Introducing radical democratic citizenship: from practice to theory

By: Andreas Zaunseder, Sophia Woodman, Akwugo Emejulu

For our special issue, ‘Radical Democratic Citizenship: From Practice to Theory’, we examine different forms of radical theorising and politics at the grassroots. Radical democratic citizenship entails forms of struggle against gross social, economic and political miseries and injustices. This special issue explores the implications of a renewed wave of revolutionary grassroots action....

Refusing politics as usual: mapping women of colour’s radical praxis in London and Amsterdam

By: Akwugo Emejulu, Inez van der Scheer

This article explores an intriguing emergent organising strategy among women of colour activists in London and Amsterdam: a politics of refusal. In response to the triple catastrophes facing women of colour: the on-going roll back of social welfare states, the normalisation of the far right in everyday life and the xenophobic backlash against migrants, we find that some women of colour...

Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution

By: Dilar Dirik

This article discusses radical democratic citizenship in the context of the ‘Rojava Revolution’, an ongoing society-building effort that emerged in majority Kurdish regions in the context of the Syrian war. It describes aspects of the political vision of Abdullah Öcalan, as interpreted and applied by activists involved in the democratic self-governance system in Rojava (northern Syria), since...

Janathana Sarkar (people’s government): rebel governance and agency of the poor in India’s Maoist guerrilla zones

By: George Kunnath

This article focuses on the agency of the poor in the context of rebel governance in rural India. During its five-decade-long armed agrarian struggle, the Maoist movement has established in several villages an alternative structure of governance called Janathana Sarkar (people’s government) with Adivasis and Dalits as the primary agents of social transformation. Drawing on the author’s...

From the spectacular to the mundane: radical democracy in the open city

By: Warren Magnusson

Radical democracy is usually fleeting. What are the possibilities for institutionalising it? If we want to understand them, we have to look carefully at the institutions and practices of local government and distance ourselves from the ideal of the nation-state, focusing instead on the possibilities of the open city. In that context, this article refers back to the work of Hannah Arendt and...

Looking at NAFTA'S replacement through the lens of ecological law

By: Geoffrey Garver, Carla Sbert

Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis. A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth

By: Geoffrey Garver

This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth’s human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity’s social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why...

Investing in Degrowth

By: Jennifer Wilkins, Bill Murphy

Technology Fetishism Reigns at COP26. It’ll Keep Us Burning Fossil Fuels.

By: Gareth Dale

From Nero to Net Zero

By: Gareth Dale

Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing

By: Erica Jung, Jamie Tyberg

Interest-bearing loans and unpayable debts in slow-growing economies: Insights from ten historical cases

By: Giorgos Kallis, Tilman Hartley

Under what circumstances are interest-bearing loans compatible with an economy without much growth? The question is becoming increasingly important given a tendency towards declining growth in industrialised economies and increasing evidence that continued growth is incompatible with environmental sustainability. Previous theoretical work suggests that when interest-bearing loans compound, this...

Klimasoziale Politik: eine gerechte und emissionsfreie Gesellschaft gestalten

By: Beigewum, Attac, Armutskonferenz