Foundations of Degrowth: Internal Colonialities
Lucía Cano, Aunindo Ghosh, Viktor Humpert, Ciara Leonard, Aeve Ribbons & Andrew Moore As a child, my grade school classmates and I walked west through a predominantly black neighborhood …
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Welcome to our blog! – This section is currently being relaunched. You will soon find posts that have emerged out of R&D activities – such as the Degrowth Summer School, the Master in Political Ecology, Activism in Barcelona – and articles that reflect on degrowth more in general. If you want to contribute to this blog, please contact us at: degrowthsummerschool@tutanota.com
The knots of our past
Author: Laura Chica Castells, Contributions: Zhaona Zhaona, Xenia Leito, Luke Deries-Glaister, Morena Hanbury Lemos, Nicolas Makeiew Imagine the world in the 60’s. What you imagine will be completely different depending …
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Story of Degrowth and Coloniality: Identity, Belonging and Language
by Amira, Ken, Cat, Gosia, Roxanne As a child, my family and I lived In a beautiful country, in nature, and we lived off the land. I was six …
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Constructive criticism of degrowth is NOT support for growth: a response to Forbes
By Vandana Sharma and Gabriela Cabaña In a recent article for Forbes, Corbin K Barthold makes several allegations against the idea of degrowth without having a clear understanding of the …
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Degrowth seen from The New Yorker
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis. By John Cassidy February 3, …
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Conversations on Degrowth: Exploring the Slow Movement
Authors: Lyudmyla Khrenova, Zhanara Yessenova and Riya Raphael In this conversational blog, we seek to explore slow movement in order to gain insight, challenge some of the norms and enjoy …
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Making power asymmetries visible
Our experiences during the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice By Karoline Pöggel, Camila Nobrega, Leonie Sontheimer “There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise.” This …
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