What Should Grow?
What ought to grow in the Global North, where colonialism and capitalism have led to sickening—literally and figuratively—overdevelopment?
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Learning from David Graeber
First published in 2011, the late David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years was transformative in understanding what debt is and why we should push for debt cancellation.
The modern form of colonialism: climate change
If Bangladesh sinks – when Bangladesh sinks – it won’t be an abstract environmental loss, but the last breath of a people that started dying the minute the British landed on Indian soil.
Shaping a Post-Growth Economy
A post-growth system essentially says: Not only are we facing ecological limits, but the very systems that have been driving us into ecological overshoot are also unsustainable from a social perspective.
Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence for a Ruling Class of the Indus Civilization?
The Indus Valley was egalitarian not because it lacked complexity, but rather because a ruling class is not a prerequisite for social complexity. It challenges us to rethink the fundamental connections between collective action and inequality.
Why are feminist perspectives, analyses, and actions vital to degrowth?
Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems.
Against capitalist realism
Without capitalist realism, what would a just society really look like?
Can We Move Beyond Philanthrocapitalism?
While the many philanthropies of the world address social injustice, gender discrimination, and countless other issues, there is one topic that is off-limits to most of them: changing the capitalist system itself, the source of many problems that philanthropy aspires to solve.
Needed: Either Degrowth or Two Earths
I remain convinced that a phaseout of fossil fuels is a small but urgently needed first step that could lead to degrowth and eventually a steady-state society that lives within ecological limits.
A Note on the Social Ecology of Capital
A Social Ecology of Capital is a contribution to the critical analysis of capitalist growth and its environmental contradictions.
‘The Future is Degrowth’ and ‘Degrowth & Strategy’: a Review in Dialogue
While it is now largely clear what degrowth is striving for, how to realize the transformation towards this end-state has not been engaged with satisfactorily.
From Bayanihan to Talkoot: Communal work practices from around the world
Communal work refers to a collaborative effort where members of a community come together to achieve a common goal or objective.
