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Misc • 2015

Convivial Modernity

By: André Reichel

From risk society (Beck) to a convivial society (Illich). From the post: . . . Just as there is counterproductivity and productivism, there is »counterconformity« and »relationalism«. Beyond such a »connectionist travesty« as Arnsperger calls it, lies the true spirit of Ivan Illich and his thinking: the self-determined autonomy of the human individual. Not an autonomy beyond social relations,...

Scientific paper • 2015

After the Anthropocene: A Degrowth Perspective on the Shortest Geological Period of all Times

By: Andre Reichel

Abstract: The narrative of the »anthropocene« is gaining traction. On the bandwaggon we find classical environmentalists who are using the term as the starkest form of warning against human self-destruction, as well as technological optimists of a Kurzweilian kind eager to accelerate the path of human technological domination of nature. Regardless if there truly »is« something like the...

Presentation • 2015

Gill Seyfang ESEE2015 Plenary: Unleashing grassroots innovations for sustainability

By: Gill Seyfang

Plenary speech by Gill Seyfang Q&A session with Gill Seyfang and Sigrid Stagl Plenary speech and Q&A session at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015.

Presentation • 2015

Ronan Palmer ESEE2015 Plenary: Sustaining Development - Practicioners´ Perspectives

By: Ronan Palmer

Plenary speech by Ronan Palmer: Plenary speech at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015. Practitioners Panel Q&A session with Ronan Palmer, Kate Raworth, Andy Mace and Paul Ellis

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

Energy, Complexity, Democracy ... Collapse?

By: Marisa Beck, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Michael M. Lawrence

complexity; collapse; peak oil; energy; resilience

Scientific paper • 2014

Serious Pleasure. Motivation in fun-emphasising social movements

By: Gregor Betz

Abstract: How can solutions for contemporary crises be implemented in modern societies, in which entertainment advanced to the guideline of our life and in which the process of ‘eventisation’ can be considered in almost all social fields? Based on outcomes of an ethnographical sociological research project, fun-emphasising protest events will be analysed, that try to integrate short-term...

Scientific paper • 2014

Educationism, may facilitate the understanding of the Degrowth proposal.

By: Cristovam Buarque, João Luís Homem de Carvalho

Abstract: The end of the 20th century showed the failure of ideologies. The ideologies of industrial civilization - capitalism, socialism and developmentalism - became prisoners of production and of income distribution, plundering the environment and offering, without delivering, accessible consumption to the masses. The failure of industrial-civilization utopia suggested that the very sense of...

Scientific paper • 2014

The long way towards a social and ecological economy: how do we change the paradigm?

By: Michele De Rosa

Abstract: In order to transform the societal paradigm it is necessary to start with the elementary components of the society: the individuals. A critique of modern society begins with a critique of the critics themselves, in this case the scientific community. This investigation provocatively started with a critique of how the concept of sustainability and sustainable Degrowth are applied in...

Scientific paper • 2014

Time use in an Alternative Degrowth Society

By: Wolfgang Fellner

Abstract: A time use perspective in economics has to recognise that time is more than an input to commodities, produced by households. Time is not money! If anything, time is life. How we spend our time provides us with skills as well as information. It determines the formation of habits and preferences. The activities we pursue with great motivation and enthusiasm, be it paid work or any other...

Scientific paper • 2014

Discussion of the new Portuguese sustainability experiences

By: Lúcia Fernandes

Abstract: The work aims to present the general aspects of a recently started postdoctoral research project at the Research Centre in Sociological and Organizational Sociology (SOCIUS) and the Centre for Social Studies (CES), Portugal. Some empirical data is from the research project Communication and Political Engagement with Environmental Issues - COMPOLIS (I am part of the project research...

Scientific paper • 2014

WELL-BEING AS A SOCIAL MUST. BUT IS WELL-BEING HEALTHY?

By: Francesca Gardiol

Abstract: Today the frantic search for well-being seems to be a social must: living well has become the new imperative, sadness, anger, anxiety, are feelings to be deleted. Subjective well-being is actually a normative construct, that is the product of the values and core principles in a culture. In the consumer society the most important aim is a "happy life"; the necessary condition for being...

Scientific paper • 2014

Decoupling resource consumption and economic growth: Insights into an unsolved global challenge

By: Peter Hennicke

Abstract: The paper demonstrates that a “resource efficiency revolution” in combination with “sufficiency policies” could be a promising step towards a sustainable development. This might create much technological optimism. However there is much evidence that technological progress has to be accompanied by radical socioeconomic transformation and new patterns of sustainable production and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Locking in or helping shift? Trends and developments affecting sustainable resource use and degrowth

By: Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, Susanne Langsdorf

Abstract: A number of global megatrends are challenging the likelihood and feasibility of options for degrowth: Rising global population and affluence levels, proliferation of westernized lifestyles and production and consumption patterns with associated resource use needs and environmental impacts jeopardize the earth’s carrying capacity. Degrowth in the sense of socially sustainably and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Governance of sustainability transformation: Transformative environmental policy

By: Lisa Graaf, Holger Bär, Klaus Jacob

Abstract: In this paper we develop a concept of transformative environmental policy as a complementary field of environmental policy, which addresses ongoing processes of societal change and utilizes them for achieving environmental sustainability. In our view, transformative environmental policies are not replacing other environmental policies that protect natural resources or reduce emissions...

Scientific paper • 2014

Pathways towards an environmentally sustainable economy: Explaining the differences

By: Karen Jeffrey

Abstract: As well as presenting an opportunity to understand where commonalities exist between degrowth advocates and others calling for a transition to an environmentally sustainable economic system, this analysis will highlight the causes of disagreement in views of how an environmentally sustainable economy might be achieved. Our NETGREEN research identifies the trail of logic that shapes...

Scientific paper • 2014

ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES IN DEALING WITH WASTE IN A WORLD OF FINITE RESOURCES

By: Helena Jeronimo

Abstract: Waste reveals a great deal about values and how we live, the economy that produces it, and our notions of development. An economy driven by the compulsion to make and consume have formed a world in which the lifetime of “durable” products tends to be shortened to that of “consumables,” while nonrenewable natural resource stocks are consumed like renewable production flows. This paper...

Scientific paper • 2014

Attitudes towards technology: dominant technological optimism and challenges for the degrowth alternative

By: Christian Kerschner, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers

Abstract: The way our society sees and relates itself to technology is crucial for the debate on economic degrowth. Latouche and others have recognized this and propose, a highly critical if not pessimist attitude. A position which goes back to Georgescu-Roegen but more importantly to Ivan Illich and those authors which describe technological systems as autonomous social systems; most...

Scientific paper • 2014

Nothing but Growth for Shrinking Cities? Urban Planning and its Influencing Factors in Poland

By: Bettina Knoop

shrinking cities; urban planning; deindustrialization; demographic change