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Misc • 2022

Decolonial Feminisms and Degrowth

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Misc • 2020

Die partizipative Marktwirtschaft

Was haben systematische Steuervermeidung durch sämtliche DAX-Konzerne, Josef Ackermanns Geburtstagsfeier im Kanzlerinnenamt oder die Legalität von Hochfrequenzhandel und Schattenbanken mit „sozialer Marktwirtschaft“ noch zu tun? Jens Mayer legt zunächst in der Analyse den Finger in die Wunde der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft, die nur noch zum Teil als Realität existiert, danach skizziert er konkrete...

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...

Misc • 2018

This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies

By: kollektiv orangotango+

"Maps articulate statements that are shaped by social relations, discourses and practices, but these statements also influence them in turn. Hence, maps (and atlases) are always political. "In this interplay between facts and perception, the cartographer is both witness and actor. [...] In order to create, or, more accurately: to invent, "his worlds", he finally arrives at a subtle mixture of...

Scientific paper • 2017

South Korean Green Growth and the Jevons Paradox: An Assessment with Democratic and Degrowth Policy Recommendations

By: Ryan Gunderson, Sun-Jin Yun

Keywords: Low-carbon green growth; rebound effect; energy efficiency; eco-efficiency; degrowth; public participation

Scientific paper • 2016

Consumerism versus happiness. The case of Alternative Food Networks in Barcelona

By: Helen Zaiser

Overcoming consumerism is one objective of the degrowth movement, to be achieved through a great social transformation by building alternatives. It inherently embraces material needs downscaling, self-sufficiency, voluntary simplicity and getting clear of neoliberal capitalist logics. Food cooperatives have the potential to embody such features, constituting a strategy for new social movements....

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Are we there yet? How practitioners, multipliers and the public perceive the status and perspectives of a new economy.

By: Jana Gebauer

The presentation shows what needs to be done in the movement in order to achieve more visibility and, more importantly, feasibility. In the same framework, tools like multipliers and institutions should be embraced to foster cooperation and convergence in projects and approaches for an alternative economy.

Misc • 2015

Resist! Against a Precarious Future

By: Ray Filar (ed)

On the book by Rhiannon Colvin: Imagine that it’s 2025 and the world of work has changed. Today, we do labour out of passion, not obligation. Nobody has a low-paid job or has to balance multiple jobs just to make rent. Work gives us meaning and direction, but it does not define who we are. The three day working week means we have time to spend with friends and family, to contribute to our...

Report • 2015

People, planet, power: towards a new social settlement

By: New Economics Foundation

NEF Webpage: These are NEF’s proposals for a new social settlement – a framework for deciding how we live together, what we expect from our governments and what we want to achieve for ourselves and others. It builds on the strengths of the post-War settlement inspired by the Beveridge Plan, but moves on – because the world has changed profoundly – to offer a bold new approach to the challenges...

Misc • 2015

An opportunity for “Generation Europe XXI” in (re)claiming public spaces in Europe – Degrowth Perspectives

By: Manon Dervin

From the article: . . . In a world of – and in – crisis, being inspired by Degrowth’ ideas, it would supposed to studying the possible perspectives and the role of the Youth in a decolonization of imaginaries (Serge Latouche)[1] which would push us outside our cultural, religious, historic zone of comfort. How to reinforced links rather than to create goods in a world entered the digital era,...

Presentation • 2015

UBI, a springboard toward sustainable and desirable Degrowth

By: Vincent Liegey

Talk at the "International Basic Income conference - 23 November 2015" in Budapest. Vincent Liegey (Interdisciplinary researcher, Co-author of "A Degrowth Project", Coordinator of the Degrowth Conference, Budapest 2016, Coordinator of Cargonomia) talks about Unconditional Basic Income and Degrowth, respectively about Basic Income in relation to a consumer, materialist society.

Scientific paper • 2014

Money and Freedom in the view of Polanyis Great Transformation: Decommodification by constituting alternative monetary systems

By: Josué Manuel Quintana Diaz

Monetary system, monetary constitution, growth imperative, Transitions Initiatives, decommodification

Scientific paper • 2014

The Analysis of Libertarian Municipalism

By: Cagri Eryilmaz

Abstract: The aim of this paper to analyze political proposal of social ecology that Murray Bookchin and Janet Biehl’s studies are reviewed. Social Ecology, developed by Murray Bookchin provides a coherent and radical critique of environmentalism as a discourse of capitalism. The solution of ecological crisis cannot be granted by environmental actions, projects and campaigns, green production...

Scientific paper • 2014

Commoning in the new society

By: Gustavo Esteva, Irene Ragazzini

Posdevelopment, radical democracy, postindustrial socety, convivial reconstruction

Scientific paper • 2014

Accountability, Democracy, and Post-growth: Civil Society Rethinking Political Economy and Finance.

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

Economic crisis, civil society, social change, accountability, degrowth

Scientific paper • 2014

Technology Assessment and Degrowth: how can they come together?

By: Julia Hahn

Abstract: TA with its strong focus on technological development and what it means for our society can offer helpful insights for degrowth regarding the strong connections between technological development and economic growth as well as problem-oriented approaches. Participatory TA for example aims at incorporating the values and experiences of lay people into the decisions on and designs of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Grassroots Movements and Urban Development - the Cases of Kitakyushu, Japan and Leipzig -

By: Heide Imai, Noriko Minkus

Abstract: As a result of the “shrinking” societies in Germany and Japan, cities and regions are facing different challenges. While metropolitan areas like Berlin and Tokyo are growing quickly, intermediate cities like Leipzig and Kitakyushu can only keep their population or grow slowly. After a process of deindustrialisation, these cities still carry dozens of empty buildings and vacant spaces....

Scientific paper • 2014

Ecological citizen in the midst of right to the city movements in Turkey

By: Mine Islar

Abstract: Social movements, as powerful channels of political expression and mobilization, have become global phenomena with potential to reshape societies and politics around the world. The purpose of this paper is to produce an interdisciplinary study of right to the city movements by analyzing the re-politicization of the citizens engaged in Turkey’s Gezi movement. The paper aims at...

Scientific paper • 2014

Need and Use of Participatory Procedures to ensure Compliance and Legitimation of Codes of Conduct for Governing Nanotechnology's Risks

By: Beate-Josefine Luber

Abstract: The contribution problematizes the need and use of democratic procedures to ensure compliance and legitimation of voluntary self-imposed corporate norms of behavior. The starting point of this argument is the challenge of regulating nanotechnology's risks that are not adequately governed by governmental policy instruments. Corporations try to absorb the risks of manufacturing...

Scientific paper • 2014

Conflicts over infrastructure and mega-projects in Europe: who, how and why?

By: Alfred Burballa Noria

Abstract: Infrastructure and urban projects in advanced capitalist societies have been contested by opposing movements for years mostly at a local and regional scale. However, the last years have seen the emergence of opposing movements which have become of national or even international concern and now seek to constitute alliances at an international level. By analysing 22 infrastructure and...