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Summer School 2017
Transformations that sustain life Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice June 25th – July 7th 2017 Barcelona (Spain)/Cerbère (France) Sustaining a life of diversity, fairness and justice requires transformations, or series of continuous transformations, slow and fast, big and small, throughout the entire spectrum of society. This is the thread that will put…
Activist research methods: practical experience
Agata Hummel Wednesday 28th June, 15.00-17.00, UAB Campus The workshop is divided in two parts. The first part consists in a practical experience of activist research situation organized using participatory and theatre methods. This allows the participants to feel what the activist method is or may be, what limitations and challenges it may have and…
Is there a border between activism and research?
Daniela Del Bene and Marta Conde Wednesday 28th June, 15.00-17.00, UAB Campus This workshop is intended to explore tensions between science and activism for politically and socially engaged researchers. We will focus on research and co-production of knowledge within studies in Environmental Justice and Conflicts. We will ask questions such as “Can a scholar also…
Bibliography 2017
Program 2017 – pink outline
You can download the program of the course here. Date Activity 25/06 Sunday 16.30-21.00 Welcome event 26/06 Monday 9.00 Registration desk 9.30 Course overview, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos and Filka Sekulova 10.00 – 13.30 Degrowth: latest debates, Giorgos Kallis Environmental justice: cities, Isabelle Anguelovski 15.00-17.00 Poster TourVenue: UAB campus 27/06 Tuesday 10.00 – 13.30 Ecological distribution conflicts:…
The politics of degrowth
Federico Demaria Wednesay 5th July, 12.00-13.30, Cerbère A new Left, new in terms of ideas, but also in terms of the young age of its members, is rising in Europe, from Spain and Catalonia, to Greece, Slovenia or Croatia. Will that Left be also green and propose an alternative cooperative model for the economy inspired…
Commons and degrowth:
Two complementary concepts for a new era Aggelos Varvarousis Wednesday 5th July, 10.00-11.30, Cerbère In this class we will traverse two distinct but related and complementary literatures; commons and degrowth. Those literatures have been in fruitful dialogue since one decade now both at the theoretical-conceptual level and the grassroots level of the social movements. However…
Care for sustaining life:
Perspective from ecofeminism Amaia Pérez Orozco Tuesday 4th July, 12.00-13.30, Cerbère In this lecture, we will first introduce ecofeminist critiques to the growth society. We will draw on the notion of a structural conflict between the process of capital accumulation and the process of sustaining life – a capital-life conflict. We will focus on the…
Women’s approaches to de-growth
From the 1980s ecofeminism to contemporary scene Ariel Salleh Tuesday 4th July, 10.00-11.30, Cerbère Ecofeminist activists and thinkers all over the world began challenging the idea of economic growth in the 1970s. Their first premise was – and remains – a claim that human relations with nature, the global economic system, political institutions, and academic…