Degrowth and the Unmaking of Capitalism
Our societies are facing multiple interconnected challenges, which include climate emergency, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, growing inequality and plastic pollution. What connects these...
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Care: the theme of Global Degrowth Day 2021
In this announcement, the Global Degrowth Day organising team talk through the selection of care as the theme for the 2021 edition of the event. In our search for a theme for next year’s Global...
View ArticleDegrowth as a metaphor for change
As we look back on 2020 we see how Covid-19 has made it starkly clear to all of us that globally something is deeply, systemically wrong. As Arundhati Roy stated a portal has opened that demands we...
View ArticleThe case for abandoning GDP – an intersectional perspective Pt. 1
As the current default indicator for economic and social ‘progress’, GDP is the most broadly established measure of a country’s economic performance relative to that of other countries. Conceived as a...
View ArticleCaring for Change: Our Degrowth is Intersectional!
The third annual Global Degrowth Day on the theme of care will take place on 5th June 2021. Here, Corinna Dengler and Giacomo D’Alisa expand on the centrality of care to degrowth. Degrowth is an...
View ArticleCollective learnings from the 2020 Latin American Degrowth Forum
What does degrowth mean in the Latin American context? In 2020, a series of six self-organized encounters attempted to dive into this question. Each meeting reflected the metaphor of the agricultural...
View ArticleThe case for abandoning GDP – An intersectional perspective Pt. 2
“The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income”. Those were the words of Simon Kuznets, who developed the first national income accounts in the United States....
View ArticleCommunal Living – breaking the ice once and for all through food solidarity
On October 1, 1960, as Nigeria gained independence, the population of the entire country was around 45.1 million. Fast forward to the year 2020, according to U.N, the estimated population of Nigeria is...
View ArticleDegrowth and law – how to combine these concepts?
Reconciling degrowth and law isn’t always easy, given the anarchist underpinnings and anti-statist leanings of some in the degrowth community. One vision of a degrowth world is of decentralized,...
View ArticlePortrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
In October 2020, I analysed press coverage of degrowth in Western European (English language) newspapers and magazines between January 2015 and October 2020. Using media theory concepts such as agenda...
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