Degrowth and environmental justice: Alternatives and proposals A trans-disciplinary summer school on methods and practices4th-15th July 2016Barcelona-Cerbère We are pleased to announce the third edition of the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice, organized by ICTA and Research & Degrowth, taking place in Barcelona (Spain) and Cerbère (France), 4th-15th July 2016! The intellectual and…
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Lecturers 2016
Speakers Below is the list of speakers who will be presenting at the Degrowth Summer School 2016: ICTA-UAB Speakers Guest Speakers Daniela del Bene – ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain Viviana Asara – University of Vienna Claudio Cattaneo – ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain Ulrich Brand – University of Vienna Giacomo D’Alisa – ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain Sylvain Fischer –…
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Buen vivir, justice and degrowth
Buen vivir, justice and degrowth – Barbara Muraca (Oregon State University) Tuesday 14th July, 10.00-11.30, Cerbère (France) Degrowth-activists claim that the crisis bears the chance for designing a new societal model that is independent from growth for its stabilization, pacification, and legitimation and in which new models and a new basis for a good life can…
Degrowth and Open-Localisation
Degrowth and Open-Localisation – François Schneider (R&D) Sunday 12th July, 10.00-13.30, Cerbère Our societies are facing two important dangers: on one hand a cultural homogenisation of society – through globalisation – the market economy and the virtualisation of exchanges (without direct contact) are able to expand to the entire world and to all corners…
limits to growth
Limits to growth – Clive Spash (WU Vienna University) Friday 10th July, 12.30-14.00, Can Masdéu The phrase “limits to growth” (LTG) was popularised by the publication of a small book by Meadows et al. (1972) that created some public debate and aggressive responses from economists. This work highlighted the conflict between expecting human systems…
Practice of mapping environmental conflicts
Practice of mapping environmental conflicts – Daniela Del Bene and Arnim Scheidel Thursday 9th July, 15.00-17.00, UAB Campus In this second session on the EJatlas, the group of participants will be split into two. In one group we will work on the cases of environmental conflict suggested by the participants themselves and add them to the…
Bibliography 2015
Day 1 – Monday 6th July Martínez-Alier, Joan. 2012. Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(1): 51-73. Kallis, Giorgos et al. 2014. Introduction to Degrowth. In: Degrowth. A vocabulary for a new era. Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kalliseds., pp. 1-17, Oxon: Routledge. Day 2 – Tuesday…
Glocal environmental justice
Glocal environmental justice – Mariana Walter and Marta Conde (ICTA-UAB) Wednesday 8th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus In the first part of the class we will introduce some features of large-scale mining and its related social, environmental and economic pressures. We will carry out an overview of the evolution of resistance to mining movements, its main motivations, demands…
Thinking degrowth from the global South
Thinking degrowth from the global South – Alberto Acosta (economist and politician, Ecuador) Wednesday 8th July, 10.00-13.30, UAB Campus Imagining an economy beyond growth is one of the great challenges of our times, to prevent a social and environmental debacle which could threaten humanity itself. There is a correspondence between debates on degrowth in the…