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Misc • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Strategic Approaches: an Overview

By: Nathan Barlow, Panos Petridis, Nilda Inkermann, Katya Chertkovskaya

Panel debate This panel aims to give an overview of different strategic approaches for degrowth. Panelists will discuss frameworks or typologies of strategic approaches to assist the discussions on strategy that place in the following days of the conference. Further, challenges and weaknesses of different strategic approaches, as well as inter-linkages between strategies will be...

Scientific paper • 2019

Watercooler Democracy: Rumors and Transparency in a Cooperative Workplace

By: Katherine Sobering

Abstract: This article examines how rumors impact democracy and transparency in a cooperative workplace. Although literature on rumors generally analyzes them as negative to workplace culture, the author argues that rumors constitute a critical aspect of democratic participation. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a worker-recuperated business in Argentina, the author shows how...

Scientific paper • 2019

The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

By: Bengi Akbulut

Abstract: Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of economic growth, however, goes beyond the economic sphere. As a societal goal, growth is often mobilized to pre-empt and/or co-opt opposition around issues of social justice and redistribution. Not only does the constitution...

Interview • 2019

Dr. Stuart Newman: “It Seems to Me That We Are Headed for A Techno-Eugenic Future”

By: Mohsen Abdelmoumen

An interview with Dr. Stuart Newman on the excesses of biotechnology and its ramifications with the world of money. Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, United States.

Misc • 2018

Anarchismus - zur Einführung

By: Daniel Loick

Der Begriff »Anarchismus« leitet sich vom griechischen an-archia, Nicht-Herrschaft, ab und bezeichnet die Idee einer Gesellschaft ohne Staat, Klassen oder sonstige Unterdrückungs- und Ausbeutungsformen. Anarchismus ist aber nicht nur eine Idee, sondern auch eine Praxis: politischer Kampf um Emanzipation und ein Versuch, die Idee der Selbstorganisation und Solidarität praktisch werden zu lassen....

Educational paper • 2018

Degrowth and Environmental Justice Summer School 2018: Video Lecture #1

By: Brototi Roy, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Course intro (Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos); and Lecture + Q&A on the topic 'Power Dynamics, Inequalities, and Violence' (Brototi Roy)

Misc • 2018

Freie Geister

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Der große utopische Science-Fiction-Klassiker in kongenialer Neuübersetzung. Ursula K. LeGuins ›Freie Geister‹ ist eine der bedeutendsten Utopien des 20. Jahrhunderts, in der die Systemfrage – Kommunismus, Kapitalismus oder Anarchismus? – mit aller Deutlichkeit gestellt wird. Ältere Ausgaben sind unter den Titeln ›Planet der Habenichtse‹ und ›Die Enteigneten‹ erschienen. Der einzige Ort auf...

Misc • 2017

To save humanity and the planet, we must redesign money

By: Alf Hornborg

From the text: The solution requires us to recognise that the operation of markets and money is socially constructed. The rules of the game can be rewritten. To acknowledge the extent to which the destiny of human society and the biosphere has been delegated to the mindless logic of objects like money and technology is like snapping out of a delusion. To fathom the implications of this delusion...

Misc • 2017

Going for “the simpler way”

By: Ted Trainer

Summary: In his contribution to the series Ecology after capitalism, Ted Trainer argues that ecosocialism is not the answer and calls for the left and degrowthers to embrace all the radical implications of the “limits to growth” analysis. This implies following “the simpler way”, his own proposal for achieving a post-capitalist society based on the principles of eco-anarchism.

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth: culture, power and change

By: Susan Paulson

Key words: degrowth, transition, climate change, socioecological systems

Report • 2017

Making power asymmetries visible

By: Leonie Sontheimer, Karoline Pöggel, Camila Nobrega

"This blog entry is based on the assignment given to use during the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice from June 25th – July 7th 2017. Instead of looking outside for an issue to target for the assignment, we decided to use this task to look inside the Summer School and to make power asymmetries in this space visible. We came up with this topic while having coffee and cake on...

Misc • 2017

Auf Kosten Anderer? - Wie die imperiale Lebensweise ein gutes Leben für alle verhindert

By: I.L.A. Kollektiv

Beschreibung des Verlags: Alle reden von Missständen und Krisen: Hier die Klima- und Rohstoffkrise, dort die sozial-politische Dauerkrise Griechenlands oder die menschenverachtende Ausbeutung in der Textilindustrie. Die Probleme sind vielen bewusst – dennoch scheint sich wenig zu ändern. Warum? Das Konzept der »Imperialen Lebensweise« erklärt, warum sich angesichts zunehmender Ungerechtigkeiten...

Misc • 2017

Radical Ecological Democracy - Searching for alternatives to unsustainable and inequitable model of ‘development’

By: Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta, Arturo Escobar, Ariel Salleh

A dialogue between Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta and Federico Demaria, moderated by Ashish Kothari

Educational paper • 2017

Willst du mit mir gehen?

By: quix

Anfang 2017 hat quix eine Broschüre zu den Themen Gender_Sexualitäten_Begehren in der Bildungsarbeit herausgegeben. Diese Themen werden in der Broschüre mit einer queer_feministischen, rassismuskritischen und intersektionalen Perspektive niederschwellig beleuchtet – dabei steht vor allem die Bildungsarbeit im entwicklungspolitischen Kontext (insbesondere von internationalen...

Misc • 2016

Die smarte Diktatur

By: Harald Welzer

Info des Verlags: Bestseller-Autor Harald Welzer legt mit ›Die smarte Diktatur. Der Angriff auf unsere Freiheit‹ eine neue und frische Analyse der großen gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge in Deutschland vor, eine umfassende Diagnose der Gegenwart für alle politisch Interessierten. Unsere Gesellschaft verändert sich radikal, aber fast unsichtbar. Wir steuern auf einen Totalitarismus zu. Das...

Misc • 2016

Ausstieg aus der Megamaschine

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Warum sozialökologischer Wandel nicht ohne eine Veränderung der Tiefenstrukturen unserer Wirtschaft zu haben ist: Wer eine Zeitung aufschlägt oder Nachrichten hört, fühlt sich in ein Panoptikum von Katastrophenmeldungen veretzt: hier eine verheerende Dürre, dort ein zerfallender Staat, hier ein Terroranschlag, dort ein Finanz-Crash. Man kann alle diese Ereignisse als unzusammenhängende...

Misc • 2016

Exit from the Megamachine

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy: Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common...

Scientific paper • 2016

Innovation for de-growth: A case study of counter-hegemonic practices from Kerala, India

By: Mario Pansera, Richard Owen

Keywords: Degrowth from the Global South; Technological innovation; Discourse of development

Misc • 2016

Keep Connecting Dots

By: TheRulesOrg

The publisher about the video: What do rising sea levels in Bangladesh, the break up of public utilities in Ghana and austerity in the UK have in common? They’re all part of the same global story. The story of one global economy that connects various economic, political, environmental and societal crises faced by communities around the world. By asking questions of this story - how is...

Scientific paper • 2016

Tools for degrowth? Ivan Illich's critique of technology revisited

By: Silja Samerski

Keywords: Degrowth; Technology; Ivan Illich; Conviviality; Disembodiment