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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Degrowth poems: Moving
Moving When I am moving, Some people think I’m still, I’m not, I’m moving. Just very slowly and gently. Look closely, You will see my trace Behind me and tomorrow, I’ll be somewhere else. But only some will notice that I’m moving slowly moving and going somewhere. by Laura Castells The […]