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Scientific paper • 2015

‘Saving’ the city: Collective low‐budget organizing and urban practice

By: Heike Derwanz, Paula Bialski, Birke Otto, Hans Vollmer

This special issue of ephemera is focused on recent research that aims to map, describe, and track the social practices of collective organising on a low budget in cities today.

Misc • 2015

Grassroots (economic) activism in times of crisis: mapping the redundancy of collective actions

By: Francesca Forno

In the current economic crisis of industrialized society, social movements face two types of challenges: firstly, they are confronting institutions that are less capable of and have no propensity for mediating new socio-economic demands; secondly, they are experiencing difficulties in building strong and lasting bonds of solidarity and cooperation among people. The latter are fundamental...

Scientific paper • 2014

Investigating the potential of applying theories on rebound effects to the climate discourse: The case of climate change adaptation in winter tourism

By: Carlo Aall

Rebound effects, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, tourism

Scientific paper • 2014

BRAINPOoL: Lessons from the Beyond GDP world for degrowth

By: Saamah Abdallah

Abstract: BRAINPOoL was a 2.5 year project funded by the EU FP7 funding stream to understand and explore the barriers to the use of Beyond GDP indicators in policy-making, and to identify opportunities to accelerate that use. The project involved a broad range of activities including a review of Beyond GDP initiatives, interviews with Beyond GDP indicator developers and the policy-makers and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism  in Latin America

By: Alberto Acosta

extractivism, neocolonialism, redistribution, ecological costs

Scientific paper • 2014

Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?

By: Alberto Acosta

growth, extractivism, economy, nature, sustainability

Scientific paper • 2014

The Foundation Theory

By: Andrea Acquarone, Júlia Pàmias Prohias

Abstract: This paper aims to present a theoretical framework useful for a qualitative analysis of the general economic system. Under this perspective, a possible path to realize a degrowth economy in a specific territory is shown, mainly thinking about a southern European reality. The reasoning starts from a reflection upon the feature of the utility function, which is conducive to a...

Scientific paper • 2014

“Health and Degrowth”, a new paradigm in the field of sustainability

By: Jean-Louis Aillon, Elena Dal Santo

health, degrowth, sustainability, medicine, determinants of health

Scientific paper • 2014

Building a social and ecological economy through a social accounting model of banking

By: Raymond Aitken

Abstract: Building a social and ecological economy imbued with the aspirations of democratic governance and cultural renaissance that the degrowth movement aspires to, requires linguistic precision and rigorous observation of economic phenomenology, to expose and address pernicious monetary fallacies. Words like “growth”, “money” and “debt” need unambiguous requalification. Such elucidation...

Scientific paper • 2014

De-growth as Counter-Hegemony? Lessons from Turkey

By: Bengi Akbulut, Prof Fikret Adaman, Murat Arsel, Duygu Avci

Abstract: That degrowth agenda has not taken an explicit stance vis-à-vis the organization of the economic relations has been a point of sharp criticism, especially regarding the viability of a degrowth trajectory. While the critiques have predominantly emphasized the material role of economic growth in the reproduction of capitalist relations of production, we argue that the notion of growth...

Scientific paper • 2014

Good Life between Buen Vivir and Sumak Kawsay – Indicators of a political concept in Ecuador

By: Philipp Altmann

Abstract: Sumak Kawsay, Buen Vivir or Good Live has experienced much attention since its integration as a leading principle of the State into the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 and -as Suma Qamaña- into the Bolivian one of 2009. In this context it was understood as an alternative to the capitalist understandings of development as growth. By this, it acquired a role as a semi-utopian...

Scientific paper • 2014

Of the Constitutive Principles of a Post-Capitalist Economy

By: Luis Alvarez, Lysete Hernández

Principles, post-capitalism, alternative, capitalism, crises

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

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

By: Romina Amicolo

Abstract: The garbage crisis in Campania, a region of the Southern Italy, is an example of 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 Italian government declared the state of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Redefining sustainability, resilience and Buen Vivir in a Social Knowledge economy context: The Ecuador experiment

By: Nicholas Anastasopoulos

Abstract: Plan Nacional Buen Vivir de Ecuador 2013-2017 places special emphasis on sustainability at all levels, social, environmental and financial, as expressed in the twelve National Objectives for Good Living, including the Guarantee of the Rights of Nature and the Promotion of a Healthy and Sustainable Environment. Research undertaken by FLOK Society in Ecuador is an experiment of global...

Scientific paper • 2014

Sumak Kawsay and Degrowth: Towards new struggles against extractive development

By: Diego Andreucci, Lucia Gallardo

Abstract: The crisis of capitalism affects all spheres of social reproduction; it is an integral crisis of the current "civilization paradigm". Contemporary anti-capitalist politics must therefore struggle for a thoroughly distinct society and imaginary. In this paper, we critically evaluate two narratives which in recent years have put forward demands for a radically alternative paradigm,...

Scientific paper • 2014

“The World is My Backyard”: Critiquing Mobility From Inside the Tiny House Movement

By: April Anson

Abstract: The phenomenon of the recent tiny house movement offers a unique opportunity for a to expose the growing commodification of environmental sustainability in a market that continues to shelter economic and class privilege. Written from my subjective position as builder, owner and inhabitant of a tiny house, this paper examines the radical possibilities intrinsic to the mobility of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Primary Energy Analysis: A New Approach beyond Extant Growth Theories (revised version)

By: Hidekazu Aoki, Nobuo Kawamiya

Abstract: A best possible indicator to represent the whole economic activity should be not the GDP but "the whole industrial production (WIP)" because the former represents only the added value sector of an economy, while the latter comprises both the GDP and all intermediate throughputs in the economy. The historical change of WIP compared with the primary energy supply (PES) in Japan revealed...