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 […]
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 […]
Communication for Social Change and Cultural Efficiency
By Javier Toca Lahuerta. This article is an extract from the master’s thesis “El Decrecimiento desde la Comunicación para el Cambio Social: en Busca de un Enfoque Comunicativo Alternativo” [Degrowth from the perspective of Communication for Social Change: In Search of an Alternative Communicative Approach] carried out within the master’s degree in International Peace, Conflict […]
National liberation in Palestine is an indispensable step towards degrowth
We write these words from the student encampment for the liberation of Palestine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. On Thursday, May 30th, the legislative body of the administration approved an academic boycott of Israel. This milestone is just the next step in a broader campaign to sanction Israel for the never-ending Nakba it inflicts […]
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, […]
Feminism(s) and Degrowth Alliance joins the Global day of Action for Gaza on 76th Nakba Anniversary commemorated on May 15, 2024
In a speech given to future European diplomats in Bruges on 13th October 2022, Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, used the metaphors of “a garden” and “a jungle” to highlight a civilisational contrast between Europe – a garden of Eden, and the most of the rest […]
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 […]
Living the questions: Why is an ontological metamorphosis foundational for enacting degrowth?
Part I: From snail to butterfly This piece is the result of an ongoing collaboration between five masters students of Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. We gathered through common inquiry of what it may look like to address a dimension commonly overlooked in our quest for radical systems […]