Sentit Comunal. Un breu relat.
Sentit Comunal: Món rural i cultura popular. Un breu relat Per Steph, Lorenzo, Lucía i Claudio – Equip Organitzador de R&D al Sentit Comunal [English bellow][Castellano abajo] Ha passat un mes i estem llestis per compartir algunes reflexions escrites sobre la segona edició de Sentit Comunal, un projecte que desde Research and Degrowth co-coordinem amb […]
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, […]
Curso “La casa en llamas: debates de política climática”
Curso Presencial El curso “La casa en llamas: debates de política climática” analiza la dimensión política de la transición verde, examinando los conflictos producidos por la distribución de los costes y beneficios de la crisis climática y la descarbonización. De la mano de personas de la academia, activistas y decisores políticos, discutiremos las tensiones entre políticas […]
Introducing the Degrowth Bike Caravan Blogpost Series
Introducing the Degrowth Bike Caravan Blogpost Series During the summer, we set off on the “Caravana Polo Decrecimiento”, a bike caravan through Galicia, with our final destination in Pontevedra at the ESEE Degrowth Conference. Of course, it was much more than pedaling through scenic landscapes – it was an immersion înto the galician resistance against […]
The Northern Champion
by Andreas Paikert. A Northern champion, full of audacity,falls short to acknowledge his deficiency. With manyfold roots, some forgotten, some new,he hopes for his movement to finally come through. Overlooking the strength in his ties and his framing,part of him seeks the spotlight while others to tame him. Much awaits and more is unclear,not least […]
Enoughness: Confronting growthism and ‘decolonizing our minds’ in North and South
By Gisela Ruiseco. Our present global crises have not lead to a massive questioning of growthism as a fundament of our zeitgeist. The eternal promise of more and better permeates, pertinaciously, our societies and beings. Challenging growthism could be, as Jason Hickel’s expresses it: “a struggle over our very theory of being. It requires decolonizing […]
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 […]
Funding Call 2024
About Research & Degrowth Research & Degrowth International (R&D) is a nonprofit association based in Barcelona, serving as a global hub of Degrowth for more than 18 years. Our main educational projects include our annual Summer School and two university Master programmes in collaboration with the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. On top of that we […]
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, […]
Libertarian Degrowth: Anarcho-Syndicalist Paths for a Just Degrowth Transition
Degrowth is composed of various political and economic configurations, which illustrate a plurality of degrowth imaginaries. This plurality of degrowth imaginaries entails diverse strategies and tools. One of such tools are trade unions, with which the degrowth literature has already engaged (Barca & Leonardi, 2018). However, there’s a notable gap in the literature regarding a […]