Mark Burton is an independent scholar activist with a background in public service management. His interests cover alternative approaches to social science (primarily economics and psychology) and ethics, informed by thinking from political ecology and subaltern social movements, especially those in Latin America. He lives in Manchester and is one member of the Steady State Manchester collective. He was formerly visiting professor at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.
October 30, 2025
Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far
What our series shows is that despite the storm clouds, there is a lively and pluralistic degrowth movement waiting in the wings, with a life-belt to hand, since it is degrowth that is the only hope for a viable future.
October 16, 2025
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
Here, perhaps is the secret to also countering the far right, not with ameliorative green growthism but with radical, redistributive, anti-commodity leftism – recovering that underground tradition of socialism that starts from a critique of capitalism’s turning everything into a commodity, and instead focusing on what we all need to lead a decent dignified life, within safe limits.
September 23, 2025
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint.
September 10, 2025
Prospects for Degrowth 2025
These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move through 2025?
April 8, 2025
No to reform!
While the ecological movement has questioned the endless expansion of production, consumption and the consequent acceleration of resource and energy use, the left has often emphasised the domination of nature not just to meet everyone’s needs but to offer a universally high standard of living.
May 4, 2023
