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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘Gaga’ – a Taiwanese indigenous post-development concept
by Federico Arcuri The Post-development Dictionary showcases a plurality of alternatives to the western capitalist imaginary of a linear ‘development’. This alliance is constructed by connecting radical notions from the Global South – such as Sumak Kawsay, Buen Vivir, Swaraj and Ubuntu – with eco-feminism, eco-socialism and degrowth in the Global North. One building block […]
Degrowth Desires
By Francesca Jobson, Laura van Damme, Adam Cogan & Josep Maria Salleras i Mercader. This text is the introduction to the magazine Degrowth Desires, which you can download and read here. Degrowth. What exactly does it offer? While it speaks of a world that centres social welfare, community cohesion, environmental justice and, ultimately, the disregard […]