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Understanding the organisational dynamics and ethos of local degrowth cooperatives

By: Giovanni Cunico, Sebastiaan Deuten, I-Chun Huang

‘Caring Communities for Radical Change’ Debates and future directions on degrowth from the 8th International Degrowth Conference – A reportage

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Misc • 2020

Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring Pathways for Transformation

By: Nina Treu, Matthias Schmelzer, Corinna Bukhart

A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination. Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. Degrowth in Movement(s) reflects on the current situation of social movements aiming...

Scientific paper • 2019

Complementarity between the EJ movement and degrowth on the European semiperiphery: An empirical study

By: Mladen Domazet, Branko Ančić

Abstract: Inspired by the thesis that an alliance between degrowth and environmental justice (EJ) movements is essential (Akbulut et al., this issue), this paper presents the findings of empirical research concerning the pitfalls and possibilities of such an alliance as understood by prominent Croatian EJ movement leaders. We outline the context of the Croatian EJ movement...

Scientific paper • 2019

Promoting Waste Degrowth and Environmental Justice at a Local Level: The Case of Unit-Pricing Schemes in Spain

By: Giacomo D'Alisa, Gabriel Weber, Ignazio Cabras, Maria Calaf-Forn, Ignasi Puig-Ventosa

This paper investigates the introduction of unit-pricing (UP) schemes in waste management with regard to grassroots initiatives promoting bottom-up participatory processes in local communities, addressing several issues concerning environmental justice and degrowth. As waste service charges and fees increase in proportion of waste generated in presence of UP schemes, the paper explores and...

Scientific paper • 2018

Degrowth in city planning

By: Ari Aukusti Lehtinen

This paper summarises the key arguments of degrowth thinking and examines their validity in a city planning setting. The paper argues that much of the reorientation work that is necessary to meet the goals of international climate change conventions needs to be carried out locally, in urban and regional settings, and this creates pressure to renew land-use planning practices. It also argues...

Report • 2017

Degrowth: the history of an idea

By: Timothée Duverger

Abstract: Degrowth is a concept-platform with multiple meanings, and is shaped by five sources of thought: ecological, bioeconomical, anthropological, democratic, and spiritual. The word appeared in the 1970s, and imposed itself beginning in 2002 owing to the convergence between the criticism of development and the anti-advertising movement, initially in France but later across the European...

Misc • 2017

movum - Heft 17: Demokratie

By: Michael Müller, Heike Walk, Katja Kipping, Hubert Weiger, Jörg Sommer, Susanne Götze, Susanne Götze, Verena Kern, Susanne Schwarz, Joachim Wille, Ralf-Uew Beck, Josef Göppel, Ute Vogt, Anton Hofreiter, Bern Marticke

Heft 19 des Magazins movum zum Thema Demokratie. Kurzbeschreibung: Gelingende Partizipation ist entscheidend für den nötigen Wandel. Mehr Bürger­beteiligung und direkte Demokratie machen uns widerstandsfähig gegen Populismus. Das Heft als PDF Die Infogafik als PDF

Misc • 2016

Is Sustainability Only for the Privileged?

By: Lucie Bardos

On the Need for Collaboration Between Social Movements and Activisms. The article sheds the light on the fact that most of the people engaged in the international transition town movement are white educated middle class. It concludes that the integration of other perspectives through a facilitated "opening-up process" would make the transition town movement more inclusive. Published on...

Report • 2016

Die teilende Gesellschaft

By: Verschiedene

SWR2 Wissen: "Mein Haus, mein Auto ..." - ist dieses Denken noch zeitgemäß? Das Image des Kapitalismus ist angeschlagen. Die soziale Schere driftet immer weiter auseinander. Das Ansammeln von Besitztümern zehrt an den ökologischen Ressourcen. Das Teilen etabliert sich als neue Form des Lebens und Wirtschaftens - und die Digitalisierung macht's möglich. Menschen teilen sich Autos und Wohnungen,...

Misc • 2015

Die Entscheidung - Kapitalismus vs. Klima

By: Naomi Klein

Der Verlag: Vergessen Sie alles, was Sie über den Klimawandel zu wissen meinten: Es geht nicht nur um CO2-Emissionen, es geht um den Kapitalismus! Die weltbekannte Aktivistin Naomi Klein weckt uns aus der kollektiven Ohnmacht angesichts der Klimakatastrophe. In einer packenden Vision zeigt sie, dass wir uns dieser existentiellen Herausforderung stellen können. Wir müssen unser Wirtschaftssystem...

Misc • 2015

Das Buch NUR

By: Hans E. Widmer

Inhalt: Wie schrumpfen ohne auf die Nase zu fallen? 5 Mit einem andern Wachstum das Schrumpfen finanzieren 11 Wirtschaft. Wessen Wirtschaft? 15 Was heisst da «smart»? 21 Ein neuer New Deal für die Schweiz? 27 Wer macht mit? 36 Erwähnte Literatur 41 Anhang 42

Report • 2015

How Two Students Are Doing Their Bit To Conserve The ‘Finite Resources On A Finite Earth’

By: Brototi Roy

Report about the first meeting of the Degrowth India Initative. Next to describing the initiative the author names the importance of thinking of degrowth in India.

Misc • 2015

Agents of Alternatives – Re-designing Our Realities

By: Christopher Laumanns, Michel Bauwens, Frigga Haug, David Bollier, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Anja-Lisa Hirscher, Amber Hickey, Ana Malalan, Andreas Unteidig, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Anna Richter, Ben Pohl, Ben Becker, Antonia Schui, Bernd Kniess, Bianca Herlo, Cecilia Palmer, Christina Nägele, Cindy Kohtala, Claudia Garduño, Daphne Büllesbach, Cordula Andrä, Diana Krabbendam, Elisa Garrote-Gasch, Eric Schuldenfrei, Marisa Yiu, Florian Sametinger, Francesca Weber- Newth, Isolde Nagel, Frauke Hehl, Harald Gruendl, Gesche Joost, Gabi Sobliye, Jennifer Schubert, Joel Rosenberg, John A. Harris, Katharina Moebus, Luisa Maria Schweizer, Lisa Gutermuth, Malin Bäckman, Marco Kellhammer, Marcin Jakubowski, Malte Bergmann, Martin Parker, Maya Indira Ganesh, Otto von Busch, Sam Muirhead, Stefanie Gernert, The Public School Berlin, Thinkfarm, Tiina-Kaisa Laakso-Liukkonen, Trade School New York, Valerie A. Brown, Wendy Brawer, Samantha Riccio, Zoe Romano

An independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’ (those who make things happen!). It shows the creative processes and tools for designing positive societal transitions. These transitions are revealed by showing the new hybrid relationships being forged between alternative approaches to learning, living, making,...

Scientific paper • 2015

Mein Recht auf Stadt: „Wiener Räume"

By: Sebastian Bohrn Mena

Abstract: Frei zugängliche Räume ohne Konsumzwang sind Mangelware in der Stadt. Dabei bietet gerade “Funktionsfreiheit” Potential für Begegnungen, Austausch und Reflexion. Büchereien, Volkshochschulen, Museen und Jugendzentren zeigen heute eingeschränkt, dass solche Räume möglich sind, doch ist das Konzept ausbaubar zu “Wiener Räumen”. Was dabei alles möglich ist lassen so manche...

Scientific paper • 2015

'Saving' the city: collective low-budget organizing and urban practice

By: Heike Derwanz, Paula Bialski, Birke Otto, Hans Vollmer (eds.)

This special issue of ephemera maps social practices of collective organizing on a low budget in cities today. ‘"Saving" the city’ expresses the imperative to economize while at the same time harbouring the desire to ‘rescue’ – recollecting an urban civil society via mobilising the public, helping neighbourhoods, creating public spaces, and heterogeneous possibilities of living to cope with...

Scientific paper • 2014

The garbage crisis, the ecological justice and enviromental migrants in Campania (Southern Italy)

By: Romina Amicolo

Abstract: The garbage crisis in Campania, a region of the Southern Italy, is an example of enviromental transformation. It's a human – made enviromental degradation, which determined a sudden drop in the health condition of local inhabitants, with a considerable increase in the number of deaths caused by cancer, respiratory illnesses, and also genetic malformations. Since the mid-1990s the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Richard Douthwaite's contribution towards a Material De-Growth Society in Ireland

By: Hans Diefenbacher, Willi Kiefel

Abstract: The contribution will focus on Richard Douthwaite's work in Ireland towards a material degrowth society, especially his work within FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and his activities in “seed projects “ coming from civic society or grass roots level that were needed as there was no use waiting for governments or policy makers to get to grips with problems:...

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

Ecological citizen in the midst of right to the city movements in Turkey

By: Mine Islar

Abstract: Social movements, as powerful channels of political expression and mobilization, have become global phenomena with potential to reshape societies and politics around the world. The purpose of this paper is to produce an interdisciplinary study of right to the city movements by analyzing the re-politicization of the citizens engaged in Turkey’s Gezi movement. The paper aims at...