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Scientific paper • 2016

Wellbeing-restoring strategies in situations of coercive consumption reduction: implications for degrowth efforts

The concept of degrowth has serious implications on consumption. The challenge lies in the most probable necessity of consumption reduction which is still an unpopular idea today. Situations of coercive consumption reduction indicate various individual reactions and severe impacts on subjective wellbeing. Our previous research aimed to analyse how individuals create resilient adaptation...

Scientific paper • 2016

What are the degrowth implications for long-distance trade?

By: Filka Sekulova

Degrowth has enjoyed an increasing attention in academia with more than 150 peer-reviewed publications over the last 8 years. Trade, however, remains a grey area. This article aims to explore the implications of degrowth for long-distance trade, using the multifaceted perspectives and disciplines which the term binds together. From a political ecology angle growth in the South has taken place...

Scientific paper • 2016

Who are we, anyway? Research on the degrowth movements in Europe

By: Dennis Eversberg, Matthias Schmelzer, Matthias Schmelzer, Federico Demaria, Anne-Laure Pailloux

The degrowth movement, uniting grassroots initiatives of various kinds and drawing on the Southern European tradition of décroissance, has in recent years become a common point of reference for a broadly techno-skeptical left in many European countries. Yet, little is known about what social groups these movements recruit themselves from and about their similarities and differences in terms of...

Scientific paper • 2016

Why won't they see the need for a change?

By: Mladen Domazet

Social attitudes and behaviours research on nationally representative samples often presents the European semiperiphery (and especially Eastern Europe) as an obstinate laggard stuck in the selfish unrealised growth hopes and unsacrifical individualistic distrust with respect to ecological transformation (cf. EVS and ISSP surveys), even when comparative understanding of the current and...

Scientific paper • 2016

Wind energy conflicts and the politization of energy transitions. A study on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Region (Oaxaca, Mexico)

By: Sofía Ávila

In the context of climate change and energy concerns, wind energy production is being increasingly supported by international agencies, public policies and private investment. Although large-scale wind farms are promoted worldwide as win-win strategies, such projects are causing a growing number of local conflicts, bringing upon new dimensions to the energy transition debate. This paper studies...

Presentation • 2016

THUR_19h // Alliances between Global North and Global South

By: Ashish Kothari, Miriam Lang, Ulrich Brand, Edgardo Lander, Beatriz Rodrígues-Labajos

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Miriam Lang, Edgardo Lander, Ashish Kothari, Beatriz Rodrígues-Labajos, Ulrich Brand Degrowth proposals are largely debated within and for the Global North. Despite strong dynamics and orientations towards economic growth and Western-style development...

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

FRI_16:30h // Degrowth in the Parliaments

By: Sabine Leidig, Philippe Lamberts, Rebeka Szabo

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Philippe Lamberts, Rebeka Szabo, Sabine Leidig Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

FRI_19h // Is climate justice possible without degrowth?

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Mladen Domazet, Jagoda Munic

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Mladen Domazet, Jagoda Munic, Matthias Schmelzer Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

SAT_10h // Polanyi historical lessons

By: Gareth Dale, Mladen Domazet, Vincent Liegey, Alexandra Köves

Keynote speech by Gareth Dale and following panel discussion by Mladen Domazet, Vincent Liegey and Alexandra Köves at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Misc • 2016

Im Club der Zeitmillionäre - Wie ich mich auf die Suche nach einem anderen Reichtum machte

By: Greta Taubert

Ist Zeit wirklich Geld? Fühlt man sich reich, wenn man unbegrenzt Zeit hat? Und kann ein anderer Umgang mit Zeit die Gesellschaft verändern? Greta Taubert will wissen, was Zeitwohlstand ist und besucht Menschen, die ihn leben. Sie nimmt sich Zeit, lässt sich treiben, wird inspiriert - und dabei immer aktiver. Im Club der Zeitmillionäre lernt sie neue Lebensentwürfe kennen und wird vor...

Misc • 2016

Degrowth in movement(s)

By: Nina Treu, Ashish Kothari, Silke Helfrich, Irmi Salzer

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016: Research In Action Special Session: Degrowth in movement(s): Discussing degrowth in the context of related social movements and perspectives Speakers: Silke Helfrich, Irmi Salzer, Nina Treu, Ashish Kothari Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

What are the merits of economic contraction, is degrowth the way forward? The pros and cons of economic growth

By: Piet Depuydt, Geert Gielens, Marius de Geus, Brent Bleys

At 19:30 on Tuesday the 19th April, deBuren held a debate which looked at the primacy of economic growth and it and degrowth’s relative merits. About the debate: In the last few years, the financial crisis and climate change have led more and more people to question the primacy of economic growth. Proponents of degrowth advocate a totally different sort of economics and a complete change...

Report • 2016

Degrowth - from the Myth of Abundance to Voluntary Simplicity

By: Manu Picazo Casariego, Luis Picazo Casariego

Documentary about Degrowth "There exists a world, the world as it is now, a world of desire, of ‘having’ and ‘always more’, characterized by the absence of any restraint on economic growth. A world which is collapsing right now due to the decline of energy resources and raw materials, and the environmental crisis. But another world exists, the one that’s coming, the world of ‘being’, where...

Misc • 2016

CO2 als Maß aller Dinge - Die unheimliche Macht von Zahlen in der globalen Umweltpolitik

By: Camila Moreno, Lili Fuhr, Daniel Speich Chassé

Der Klimawandel ist real, von globaler Reichweite und Bedeutung. Doch diese Bedrohung wird seltsamerweise fast ausschließlich als ein Problem zu hoher CO2-Emissionen wahrgenommen. Diese Publikation macht deutlich, dass die Art und Weise, wie wir ein Problem beschreiben, weitgehend festlegt, welche Schritte und Maßnahmen wir zur Lösung dieses Problems in Erwägung ziehen. Am Beispiel des...

Misc • 2016

Inside the Green Economy - Promises and Pitfalls

By: Barbara Unmüßig, Lili Fuhr, Thomas Fatheuer

The economic and ecological bases of a general prosperity are in danger, the gap between rich and poor is widening. The concept of the Green Economy offers a new model, based primarily on large-scale technological solutions. But the Green Economy cares little about politics, barely registers human rights, does not recognize social actors and suggests the possibility of reform without conflict....

Misc • 2016

Die Welt reparieren - Open Source und Selbermachen als postkapitalistische Praxis

By: Christa Müller, Andrea Baier, Karin Werner, Tom Hansing

Weltweit entstehen immer mehr Initiativen des Selbermachens, in denen eine Vielfalt von Anliegen und Problemen kollektiv bearbeitet werden. In diesen – jenseits von Markt und Staat angesiedelten – kollaborativen Zusammenhängen wird ein basisdemokratisch orientiertes Verständnis von Zusammenleben und Urbanität erprobt und zugleich nach ökologisch und sozial sinnvollen Lösungen für grundlegende...

Educational paper • 2016

Politikwissenschaft: Eine Einführung

By: Hans-Joachim Lauth, Christian Wagner

Für die 8. Auflage wurde dieser Klassiker unter den Einführungen in die Politikwissenschaft erneut aktualisiert. Er gibt einen studien- und problemorientierten Überblick über die zentralen Fragestellungen und Themenfelder der Politikwissenschaft. Behandelt werden: Historische Entwicklung und aktueller Stand des Faches, seine theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen und – ausführlich – die...

Art contribution • 2016

Eco-modernism vs. Degrowth

By: Students of the Summer School on Degrowth, Environmental Justice

A sketch by students of the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice

Presentation • 2016

What are the degrowth implications for long-distance trade?

By: Filka Sekulova

Speech by Filka Sekulova at the Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest