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Scientific paper • 2016

The degrowth side of post-development (and vice versa)

By: Tzekou Eirini-Erifyli, Gritzas Giorgos

The degrowth side of post-development (and vice versa) Although it's been over 20 years since the first edition of "Development Dictionary" (Sachs, 1992), which marks the beginning of the debate on the end of the era of development and the transition to the age of post-development, and about 15 years since the emergence of the degrowth discourse as an activist slogan (Demaria et al, 2013), and...

Scientific paper • 2016

The role of community enterprises in rural development

By: Melinda Mihály

Neoliberal regional development policies are not just environmentally unsustainable, but are also producing uneven regions (Harvey 2011, Smith 2008). The case of Hungary seems to confirm this. Regional disparities in Hungary has been growing in the postsocialist transition period and our accession to the EU has not improved this situation either (Tímár 2007). In the same time there is a...

Scientific paper • 2016

Understanding the good life beyond growth: insights from Degrowth, Human Development and Buen Vivir

By: Adrián Beling, Julien Vanhulst

Since the early 70's three approaches to development thinking have emerged to criticize and try to overcome the dominant perspectives of "economic development" and "economic growth". These include the ideas of Degrowth, Human Development and Buen Vivir. Proponents of Degrowth aim to create a post-growth society based on material sufficiency, individual and collective well-being and ecological...

Presentation • 2016

FRI_9:30h // Ashish Kothari - Radical alternatives to Unsustainability and inequality

By: Ashish Kothari

Recorded keynote speech at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speaker: Ashish Kotari Degrowth 2016 - English Youtube Channel

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 – Technologies for a Degrowth Transition. A Faustian Bargain?

By: Tomislav Medak

Presentation by Tomislav Medak I'll broach the degrowth transition from the combined perspective of social construction of technology and world system theories. I'll seek to demonstrate how dominant technological complex functions to integrate yet thwart the advancement of semi-periphery. Narratives of a socially more just and ecologically more sustainable future would frequently have us...

Presentation • 2016

The degrowth side of post-development (and vice versa)

By: Tzekou Eirini-Erifyli

Although it's been over 20 years since the first edition of "Development Dictionary" (Sachs, 1992), which marks the beginning of the debate on the end of the era of development and the transition to the age of post-development, and about 15 years since the emergence of the degrowth discourse as an activist slogan (Demaria et al, 2013), and despite the many similarities shared by the two...

Analysis • 2015

Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement

By: Lasse Thiele

From the text: Is degrowth only conceivable in the context of “oversaturated” industrial societies while the global “South” remains dependent on growth? Lasse Thiele challenges this assumption, noting that "assumptions underlying such demands are quickly revealed to be rooted firmly in Western ideas of progress and growth." > read part 1 > read part 2 This article is also available in...

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

By: Arturo Escobar, Arturo Escobar

Degrowth, Postdevelopment, Transition, Civilizational crisis, Global South

Scientific paper • 2015

Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development: a critical view

By: Kathleen McAfee

Geen economy, Development, Carbon markets, Ecosystem services, Degrowth, Buen vivir, REDD+

Report • 2015

Aufbruchtage - Vielfalt für die Menschen ... 1 und 2

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Buen vivir and radical ecological democracy" mit David Barkin. Der Bericht besteht aus 2 Teilen: Teil 1, Teil 2 Aus dem Bericht:. . . Dies bedeute, daß Utopia am Horizont stehe, zwei Schritte vor dir. Gehst du aber diese Schritte, bewegt sich der Horizont zehn weitere vorwärts. Auf die Frage, welchen Sinn dann eine Utopie...

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.

Interview • 2015

Kämpfer für das gute Leben

By: Alberto Acosta, Christoph Quarch

Aus dem Text: Als Politiker hat Alberto Acosta die indigene Idee des »Buen Vivir« – des guten Lebens – in seiner Heimat Ecuador hoffähig gemacht. Heute streitet der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler dafür, weltweit die Rechte der Natur zu kodifizieren und fordert die »Entmarktung« der Gemeingüter. [. . .] »Unter Buen Vivir verstehen wir ein Leben in Harmonie: der Mensch in Harmonie mit sich selbst,...

Scientific paper • 2015

Exchange and refurbish: practicing decoloniality through rethinking discards and degrowth

By: Erin Araujo

About the article: Degrowth theorists highlight the importance of communities of practice; creating working alternatives to growth is central to the overall project of diverse economies. Erin Araujo’s work with El Cambalache (The Swap), a collective that shares and repairs donated items in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, is an example of a degrowth economy in action. Araujo links...

Position paper • 2015

Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistakes the poison for the cure

By: Samuel Alexander

From the article: By championing economic growth, the Sustainable Development Goals are a barely disguised defence of the market fundamentalism that underpins business-as-usual. But in an age of planetary limits, sustained economic growth is not the solution to our social and environmental ills, but their cause. We need an alternative vision and an alternative set of goals. So here are five...

Misc • 2015

Re-taking Sustainable Development for Degrowth

By: André Reichel

From the text: In the discourse on degrowth – the deliberate and planned downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet – the notion of »sustainable development« has sort of a bad rap. In fact, sustainable degrowth is intended to replace sustainable development as the central concept under which ecological...

Interview • 2015

Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien

By: Vaishali Patil

Dokumentation eines Interviews in Rahmen der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 „Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit“ Titel des Kurses: Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien Kurzbeschreibung: Vaishali Patil, Klimaaktivistin in der Konkan-Region in Maharashtra/ Indien, spricht interviewt von Steffen Lange vom Konzeptwerk für Neue Ökonomie über die Folgen von Ressourcenabbau für Indien, globale...

Scientific paper • 2014

Latin America and De-Growth: A Chance to Finally Overcome Underdevelopment

By: Natalia Bracarense

Abstract: Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies: an “outward-oriented” program based on exports of primary commodities and, alternatively, a domestic industrialization from within strategy. A consensus that both models failed to achieve sustainable development in Latin America opened space for rethinking development theory and policy in the beginning of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Alternative capital for alternative development: Investigation of possible development transition using capital method

By: Chiung Ting Chang

Abstract: How to move from current unsustainable pattern of development to a sustainable one? Here we make an attempt to propose a possible route of transition in the perspective of capital. That is to focus on the investment of human capital and of social capital. The strategies for transformation will be also based on the shifting the resources to human-centered investment. Although the plan...

Scientific paper • 2014

What Kind of Growth, What Kind of Degrowth: The Case of Croatia Reconsidered

By: Vladimir Cvijanovic, Tomislav Tomasevic

Abstract: This contribution is a part of Degrowth in post-socialist European Countries Special Session. It outlines the development path Croatia has pursued (that has not produced desirable results) and will argue that the country should pursue sustainable degrowth. We identify potentials Croatia has in ecological agriculture, utilisation of forests as well as other potentials in renewable...

Scientific paper • 2014

State- prescribed (re)productivity? The Philippine Legislation on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Crisis

By: Janina Dannenberg

Abstract: (Re) productivity transports a concept of sustainable society where boundaries between different forms of work and productivity are subject to annulment. In the Philippines, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act recognizes the right to collective ownership of land and considers a broad variety of economic, social and cultural land uses. Even if not titled the same, the concept of...