Program

Monday, June 21st – Introductions & Setting the Scene

9:00 – Welcome to the Degrowth and Environmental Justice Summer School!

10:00-12:00 – Textbooks, barricades & revolutionizing education by Tim Parrique

14:00-16:00 – Navigating our way through an emerging mosaic of alternatives by Nina Treu

Tuesday, June 22nd – The Growth Hegemony: History, Power & Path Dependencies

9:00-12:00 – The History of Growthism

13:00-16:00 – Decolonising perspectives from the majority world by Brototi Roy

Evening – Documentary + Discussion

Wednesday, June 23rd – Colonialism & Patriarchy: Creating & (Re)Shaping Growthism

9:00-12:00 – Feminism and the politics of commons 

13:00-16:00 – Decoloniality + Feminism

Evening – Theatre of the Oppressed

Thursday, June 24th – Understanding and Unlearning Privilege

9:00-12:00 – Harnessing the Strength of Self + Collective Transformations by Kim Nicholas

13:00-16:00 – A practical guide to decolonising education by Luis ‘Iñaki’ Prádanos

Evening – Women Self Defence + Understanding Eco-Masculinities

Friday, June 25th – Sowing the Seeds of Solidarity

9:00-12:00 – Open Localism for Global Solidarity by Filka Sekulova

13:00-17:00 – Africa: Co-Creating Transformative African Futures

Degrowth in theory, Growth in action: Exploring Russian & ex-Soviet contexts by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

Latin America: Opposing Green Capitalism & Renewable Extractivism by Gabriela Cabana

Saturday, June 26th – Seeds of Nonviolent Resistance & Civil Disobedience

09:00-11:00 –Alliance Building for Revolutions: Reflections from Zapatista, Cuba, Catalonia & FFF

13:00-17:00 – WORKSHOP: Forming alliances to change the world

Sunday, June 27th – Wrap Up & Reflections

09:00-11:00 – Farewell to Barcelona (+ Growth)

12:00 – Leave for Can Decreix

Evening – Get-to-know; Tour of Can Decreix; Sharing of roles in Can Decreix
Folk and Brazilian music evening

Monday, June 28th

Narratives theory: Why narratives are key to politics in general and in particular key to degrowth.

Practical intro of how stories are built

Afternoon – Results from earlier schools followed by the presentation of new topics
Forming of narrative groups

Tuesday, June 29th

Morning – Degrowth narratives as guerrilla tools

Afternoon – Narrative working groups – developing context & format

Wednesday, June 30th

Morning – Degrowth narratives as realist pathways of transformation

Afternoon – Narrative working groups– defining format, Conflicts/cooperations, Characters
evening event with inhabitants of Cerbère

Thursday, July 1st

Morning – Experiential narratives

Afternoon – Narrative working groups – important aspects of narrative:  values, Emotions, Pictures, Technologies, Policies etc

Friday, July 2nd

Refining the narrative

Saturday, July 3rd

Finalising the narratives
Party in the evening

Sunday, July 4th

Presenting narratives