El nostre hort i la màquina de creixement: la lluita per mantenir el Raval per al barri
El nostre hort i la màquina de creixement: la lluita per mantenir el Raval per al barri English below L’Àgora Juan Andrés Benítez, un hort comunitari imprescindible al Raval, amenaçat de desallotjament el 14 de maig mentre la màquina de creixement urbà de Barcelona s’emporta un a un els espais que li donen vida. Cridem […]
News 2024
News 2024 From Research & Degrowth International, we wish you a happy new year and all the best for 2025! We are pleased to share our bi-annual update on the projects and achievements of Research & Degrowth International. We have taken significant steps forward with Degrowth Policy consultancy. Our collaboration with the municipality of Girona, […]
Kaupapa Māori Enterprise: Agents of Māori Aspiration
By Jennifer Wilkins Enterprises have an important role to play in provisioning wellbeing and building prosperity. They also crystalise culture – a European business will differ from a Japanese business, despite globalisation, corporatisation and migration. An emerging field of study into culturally unique enterprise is Indigenous entrepreneurship. In settler colonial nations, the Indigenous nation has […]
Clothing Library: Borrow Not Buy – A Bridge to Behavior Change
By Stella McShera As the first of its kind initiative, the Clothing Library intends to weave together community, shared values and conscious consumerism…one borrowed garment at a time. The Clothing Library developed a 6 week pilot in December 2023 that applied degrowth principles and employed behavior change strategies to combat overconsumption fueled by the fashion […]
Critical Youth Participatory Spatial Planning: What does it have to do with Degrowth?
By Amerissa Giannouli I remember during the classes of Fundamentals for Degrowth, we were asked to think about research topics and questions we would like to explore. Democratic planning has always been a particularly intriguing subject, although I hesitated to work on it, as I perceived it to be more suited for political scientists. However, […]
‘Gaga’ – a Taiwanese indigenous post-development concept
by Federico Arcuri The Post-development Dictionary showcases a plurality of alternatives to the western capitalist imaginary of a linear ‘development’. This alliance is constructed by connecting radical notions from the Global South – such as Sumak Kawsay, Buen Vivir, Swaraj and Ubuntu – with eco-feminism, eco-socialism and degrowth in the Global North. One building block […]