The Great Deceleration
The ‘Great Acceleration’ of economic activity in the past 60 years has led to a series of interlocking crises. Here’s why a Great Deceleration is necessary for us “to live again with affection and beauty on this earth.”
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D.E.growth: A Small Change in the Slogan with Large Benefits
Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives.
Commons: A Frame for Thinking Beyond Growth
You cannot think about the commons if you don’t ask yourself at the same time who creates them, who cares for them, who protects them and who reproduces them.
Adultum – A Critical Narrative at the End of Growth and a Name for the Coming Age
Degrowth is usually translated into German as “Postwachstum” (post growth) or “Wachstumsrücknahme” (reversing growth), but it can also be translated as “ausgewachsen” (grown up).
Accelerationism… and Degrowth? The Left’s Strange Bedfellows
The accelerationists begrudged the enviros their grub-eating utopia while they ruminated on their own techno-fetishes. Was it just an armistice to prepare for a bigger battle down the road, or was there really less animosity than I imagined?
Capitalism and (De)Growth
I think about capitalism as a moment. A blink in time.
Degrowth and the Global Ecovillage Network
Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future?
From Post-Growth Society to Sufficiency Politics
When our book Post-Growth Society was published in 2010 in German, the term was entirely unheard of.
Grassroots Movements, Degrowth and ‘New Economies’
There are numerous grassroots movements and initiatives worldwide with the ambition to contribute to transformative change towards more sustainable, resilient and just societies.
Degrowth Meets Convivialism: Pathways to a Convivial Society
The concept of convivialism has attracted some attention in recent years.
Undoing the Ideology of Growth
Degrowth aims at undoing growth.
Degrowth by Designed Disaster?
The degrowth movement has been developed in response to neoliberal reality, neoliberalism’s comically reductive view of human nature, its ecological blindness and the rise in social inequality it has brought about.
