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Misc • 2018

The rise - and future - of the degrowth movement

A decade after the first international 'degrowth' conference, FEDERICO DEMARIA charts the evolution of the term from a provocative activist slogan to what he says is now an academic concept taking hold with policymakers

Scientific paper • 2018

Macroeconomics Without Growth - Sustainable Economies in Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian Theories

By: Steffen Lange

How can we organize our economies without growth? "Macroeconomics Without Growth' provides a comprehensive understanding of how non-growing economies can be sustainable. With this book, Steffen Lange brings new momentum into the debate on post-growth, degrowth and steady state economies. The book delves deep into economic theory to understand how a macro-economy can operate without growth. By...

Scientific paper • 2018

The Naturalisation of Growth: Marx, the Regulation Approach and Bourdieu

By: Max Koch

Bourdieu; Growth paradigm; Marx; capitalism; degrowth; naturalisation; postgrowth; regulation approach

Misc • 2018

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice

By: Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker

Description: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90...

Scientific paper • 2018

Degrowth and Technology: Towards feasible, viable, appropriate and convivial imaginaries

By: Christian Kerschner, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Petra Wächter, Linda Nierling

Mainstream sustainability discourses are firmly built on the mantra that more technology leads to more economic growth, which in turn leads to more welfare and sustainability. With economic growth becoming ever more difficult and undesirable, and sustainability challenges ever more pressing, alternative post-growth and Degrowth discourses have gained momentum in the last decade. However, the...

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Degrowth theory in dialogue with Michel Henry's theory of culture

By: Brian Harding

This presentation explores the links between Henry's theory of culture and degrowth theory.

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Will 'Limits to Growth' be the Death of Us?

By: Sophia R. Sanniti

Degrowth's fatal error consists in assuming rationalism and seeing sustainability as an existential dilemma.

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - La colonialidad de las raíces de la modernidad occidental

By: Frédèrique Appfel Marglin

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Miércoles por Frédèrique Appfel Marglin: "La colonialidad de las raíces de la modernidad occidental"

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Macroeconomía para el Ecozoico

By: Peter Brown

Conferencia (En Línea) de la Plenaria del Jueves por Peter Brown: "Macroeconomía para el Ecozoico."

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Pluriverso: Cómo articulamos diferentes alternativas al desarrollo?

By: Federico Demaria

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Martes por Federico Demaria: "Pluriverso: ¿Cómo articulamos diferentes alternativas al desarrollo?"

Misc • 2017

Let’s Degrow Up and Grow Down!

By: François Schneider

Francois Schneider defends the use of the term "degrowth". From the text: . . . If degrowth was the name of a multinational of toothpaste, Drews and Antal would be right: degrowth is not the right word to gain (market) competition. However degrowth is not just about raising attention, being interesting, provocative, easy to remember. It actually has a meaning! When I was doing a tour of...

Misc • 2017

A-growth or Degrowth?

By: Giorgos Kallis, Jeroen van den Bergh

Debate on “A-growth or Degrowth?” between Prof. Jeroen van den Bergh and Prof. Giorgos Kallis

Scientific paper • 2017

Perspektiven einer Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum

By: Christoph Gran

Der Verlag: Der zentrale Stellenwert, den Wirtschaftswachstum in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, aber auch in Medien, Politik und der Öffentlichkeit einnimmt, wird angesichts der massiven Überschreitung ökologischer Grenzen sowie des schwindenden Zusammenhangs von Wirtschaftswachstum und Lebensqualität zunehmend infrage gestellt. Hinzu kommt, dass in vielen frühindustrialisierten Ländern, so...

Scientific paper • 2017

Against wasted politics: A critique of the circular economy

By: Francisco Valenzuela, Steffen Böhm

post-growth, circular economy, waste management, sustainability, politics, discourse analysis, fetishism, Marx, Lacan, Apple

Scientific paper • 2017

Shifting Priorities in Degrowth Research: An Argument for the Centrality of Human Needs

By: Hubert Buch-Hansen, Max Koch, Martin Fritz

From the introduction: Economic growth is neither socially inclusive nor ecologically sustainable. While in the rich countries the unequal distribution of wealth has reached the levels of the nineteenth century (Piketty, 2014), the Earth's carrying capacity is being exceeded in relation to at least three planetary boundaries: climate change, the nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss (Rockström...

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm

By: Claudio Cattaneo, Martin Weiss

Keywords: Degrowth; Economic growth; Sustainable development; Steady-state economy

Misc • 2017

Warum hohe Wachstumsraten dauerhaft nicht erzielbar sind

By: Attac AG Jenseits des Wachstums

Aus dem Text: Das ungebremstes Wachstum aufgrund endlicher Ressourcen dauerhaft nicht möglich sein wird und außerdem unsere Lebensgrundlagen endgültig zerstören würde, muss hier nicht weiter erörtert werden. Aber nicht nur diese Grenzen des Wachstums machen die daran geknüpften Versprechen unglaubwürdig, auch in Zeiten durchschnittlicher Wachstumsraten, haben Hunger, Arbeitslosigkeit und...

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth, anthropology, and activist research: the ontological politics of science

By: Ulrich Demmer, Agata Hummel

Key words: ontological politics, activist research, degrowth, alternatives to modernity

Interview • 2017

Episode 22: Professor Giorgos Kallis: Degrowth and the dangers of excessive economic growth

By: Giorgos Kallis

thesustainabilityagenda.com: In this interview, Professor Giorgos Kallis, a leading degrowth thinker, provides an overview of evolving theories of degrowth. Degrowth theorists argue for a reduction in production and consumption, arguing that overconsumption is at the root of many of the long term environmental issues and social inequalities facing the world today. Professor Kallis highlights...

Misc • 2017

Beyond the limits of nature: a social-ecological view of growth and degrowth

By: Eleanor Finley

Teaser on entitle.org: In this second article of the series “Ecology after capitalism“, Finley revisits the concept of growth from the libertarian socialist perspective of social ecology. She draws on Bookchin’s work to interrogate the limits of a degrowth conception of ‘growth’ and argues that we might find more opportunities for social and political transformation in social ecology’s analysis...