We want to encourage more people to create their own degrowth reading groups in their cities, universities, and institutions, for this reason, we share our reading lists. We encourage you to take a photo, write some thoughts or something you learned or are thinking about, and post it in your social media use the hashtag #degrowthreadinggroup
Francoise Gollain (2016) “André Gorz: wage labour, free time and ecological reconstruction”, Green Letters, Special issue: The Ecology of Labour, Vol. 20, No 2, June 2016, p. 127-139
André Gorz (1993) Political Ecology: Expertocracy versus Self-Limitation
Ben Case – Beyond Violence and Non-Violence
Hannah Arendt – On Violence (Page 163 to 184)
Further Readings:
NAVCO Database on Violent and Nonviolent conflicts
Degrowth to be discussed in the Catalonian Parliament: A political party argues for Degrowth
El Decrecimiento a debate en el Parlament de Catalunya. Entrevista a Sergi Saladié, parlamentario de la CUP-Crida Constituent
A defence of degrowth (Response to Pollin’s critique)
Guillaume Pitron’s argument on damages from rare earth materials mining
A defense of degrowth (Response to Pollin’s critique)
Is wartime mobilization a suitable policy model for rapid national climate mitigation?
The Guardian. 2018. The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth.
Tom Henfrey. 2018. Reflections from Brussels conferences.
Nina Treu et al. 2018. Are European politics compatible with post-growth?
Francesca Colli & Bart Kerremans. 2018. Searching for influence: interest groups and social movements in the European Union, Journal of European Integration, 40(1):115-121.
From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement, Ariel Salleh
Feminism and Environmental Ethics: A Materialist Perspective, Mary Mellor
Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
Book by Giorgos Kallis (2019). Stanford Press
Hartley, T. and G. Kallis. In review. Interest-Bearing Loans and Unpayable Debts in Slow-Growing Economies: Insights from Eleven Historical Cases.
Nyblom, Å, et al. 2019. Governance and Degrowth: Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis in Latvia and Iceland. Sustainability 11, 1734.
Mellor, M. 2016. Money – The Neglected Agent of Change. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 27:4, 28-39.
Payne, A., 2019. Fashion Futuring in the Anthropocene: Sustainable Fashion as “Taming” and “Rewilding”. Fashion Theory, 23(1), pp.5-23.
Rachael Taylor (2019) Invent Your Own Fashion Economy: Post-Growth Cultures, Fashion Practice, 11:3, 397-416, DOI: 10.1080/17569370.2019.1664513
Stitched up. The anticapitalist book of Fashion. Tansy Hoskins. Chapter 6. Resisting fashion
Usership: fashion beyond consumerism. Kate Fletcher | TEDxMacclesfield
Working-class ecology and union politics: a conceptual topology”, S Barca, E Leonardi, Globalizations 15 (4), 487-503
Ecological Politics for the Working Class, Matthew Huber, Catalyst 2019, https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no1/ecological-politics-for-the-working-class
The Future of Labour defines the Future of Humanity and all Living Species, N Räthzel and S Uzzel, ILO Journal
“Batshit jobs’ – no-one should have to destroy the planet to make a living”, Bue Rübner Hansen, OpenDemocracy 2019