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Sessions by theme

Transformational climate politics (METAR)

  Title Theme Speakers
2050 Emission Pathways Explorer Croatia
Achieving climate neutrality in Croatia by 2050 is technically feasible,... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
A case study of the Hungarian Degrowth Donut
The Degrowth Donut (a modification of the original Donut visualisation of... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
Adaptation of the electric power sector to climate change
The electric power sector has a significant role in the climate change... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
Gajna commons, fight for nature, people and climate
Gajna is a naturally flooded grassland located in the eastern continental... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
Panel Discussion on sustainable and just transformations of city-region food systems
How would a degrowth agri-food system envision the connection of rural-urban... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
Snails over Teslas: how energy citizenship and energy communities can push for a degrowth energy transition
Community energy, a specific form of energy citizenship (ENCI), represents... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
Spatializing degrowth: Five steps towards a radical urban degrowth agenda in the face of climate emergency.
This paper calls for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
The importance of Optimal Design of a PV System in the Net-Metering Model: A Case Study for Croatia
The world’s demand for electrical energy is increasing rapidly while the use... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)
Visualising the social impact of climate adaptation
Transition of contemporary societies to different energy flows and different... 		Transformational climate politics (METAR)

Technology and science for degrowth

  Title Theme Speakers
A curriculum for moving undergraduate biology students towards Degrowth principles
Traditional science education in the Global North needs rapid transformation... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Avenues for a safe climate: Remove carbon from the atmosphere or reduce energy use?
Existing climate mitigation scenarios describe a range of potential futures,... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Colonialism - Digitalisation - Degrowth
In the workshop we explore how the digital economy is based on colonialism... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Decarbonisation of the Steel Industry and Changing Places of Work
The transition to a low-carbon society will require extensive industrial... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Defuturing Artificial Intelligence
Defuturing is a design philosophy premised on negation. In this paper I offer... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Degrowing concrete
Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in the world, and after... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Degrowth and the Aporia of Utopia
Post-capitalist imaginary is caught in a double bind of climate realism and... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Degrowth and the sustainable development agenda
Degrowth and the sustainable development agenda: Should we pursue SDG 7... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Digital degrowth alternatives and AI resistance narratives
Compatibility with degrowth objectives (simply referred to as a radical... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Discursive Power Struggles over the role of Hydrogen in the European energy transition
Energy transitions are contested arenas. Different actors may hold different... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Electrochemistry, decarbonisation technologies and degrowth
Electrochemistry is positioned to play a crucial role in the transition... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Energy Peripheries in the Green Transition
The paper builds on a 3-years research project about “Climate Park... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Engineering education within a degrowth paradigm
This paper will address attempts over the past 18 years of ESJP -... 		Technology and science for degrowth
E-waste - the forgotten material dimension of digitalisation
When talking about a digital transformation of society, we are often... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Imaginaries of public and contentions over renewable energy ownership models
Contentions associated with the transition of the energy sector towards... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Is there a Place for Artificial Intelligence in a Degrowth Society?
Degrowth perspectives have so far largely left unshaped their visions on the... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Low-tech’s bit to the post-carbon transformation
Disruptions of global supply chains, climate change, or depletion of... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Patterns for digital degrowth
In the face of multiple crises, digital technology is widely considered... 		Technology and science for degrowth
(Re-)Imagining Technology and Innovation for Degrowth
As key drivers of endless economic growth, innovation and technology have... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Re-imagining technology in post-growth 'rurban' futures
Accelerating transitions towards sustainable, post-fossil fuel futures is no... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Rethinking innovation beyond economic growth for sustainability transitions.
Confronted with ecological, social and economic crises, the mainstream... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Slow science and „caring” research
A collaborative research project for social inclusion is in itself a social... 		Technology and science for degrowth
The unexplored field of sufficiency in the research on future mineral demand for clean energy
The undeniable material dimension of the energy transition has generated... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Towards modelling degrowth scenarios
The scenario database used in the most recent IPCC Assessment Report on... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Updates on Degrowth & Technology: overcoming the positivist pandemic trauma
Almost 5 years have passed since the publication of the so far most extensive... 		Technology and science for degrowth
Wolves in sheep’s clothing?
Dominant narratives of green growth and sustainable development rest upon... 		Technology and science for degrowth

Degrowth as a political project?

  Title Theme Speakers
A Degrowth Project: Degrowth policy proposals and political agenda
In 2013, in France was published a successful book translated into several... 		Degrowth as a political project?
A polycentric approach to the post-growth social order
Many authors, from Serge Latouche (2007) to Elinor Ostrom (2009) and Tim... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Can politics cope with hard limits on societal metabolism?
In July 2021, following long-running campaigning by Irish civil society... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Community passage to the degrowth society
Community passage to the degrowth society The systemic crisis of the Planet... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Contestation, Expertise, and Time: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy
For food system transformation, there is growing interest in deliberative... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth and basic income
Basic income (BI) is defined as a “periodic cash payment unconditionally... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth and the working class
It is now almost unequivocal in the research community from natural science... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth in France, a conference around the book "La decroissance et ses déclinaisons. Pour sortir des clichés et des généralités" of la Maison commune de la décroissance
The french organization "La maison commune de la décroissance" dedicates... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth in practice VS academia?
Following the dynamics of alter-globalist movements, Degrowth started in... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth, Re-localization and Multi-level governance in European Solidarity Economy networks
The social, economic, and environmental externalities of industrial mass... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth & Strategy
As the cost of living crisis deepens, Lützerath hamlet in western Germany is... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Degrowth through deliberative democracy – an infrastructure perspective
This paper asks whether there is a deliberative democratic pathway to... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Economic redistribution in eco-social narratives
In descriptions of a socio-ecologically sustainable future, ensuring a decent... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide
In August 2020, we launched our jointly authored book Exploring Degrowth: A... 		Degrowth as a political project?
From parking place to public space: justice principles and perceived fairness regarding public space reallocation
A degrowth city requires a reallocation of public space. Instead of parking,... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Future of wellbeing: Finnish MPs perceptions on health and wellbeing against the eco-social-growth trilemma
Climate change and other socioecological disasters threaten the wellbeing of... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Geopolitics and Degrowth
Degrowth policies aim to respect planetary boundaries, while allowing the... 		Degrowth as a political project?
How can degrowth actors engage in policy dialogue with growth-enhancing policy institutions?
This research investigates how degrowth actors shape advocacy work to drive... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Linking the levels: Actors, strategies and alliances for postgrowth transitions
While postgrowth approaches are gaining discursive momentum, the development... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Municipalist Politics for the Change We Need - Experiences from Zagreb
Zagreb je NAŠ!/Možemo! neighbourhood, district and city councilors will... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Playing Simulation Games for Degrowth
This workshop introduces conference participants to three new learning games... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Political Friendship and Ecological Sustainability
The objective of my paper is to show how a contemporary account of political... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Political strategies for a socio-ecological reduction
Growth-based eco-technological modernisation will not succeed in curbing... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Scale matters for degrowth
No social revolution can succeed without being at the same time a consciously... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Securing human needs through Universal Basic Services: creating political support for degrowth?
Failure to meet human needs and exceeding the environmental boundaries push... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Social and ecological reasons for a universal basic income
This paper will present the forthcoming book (to be published in Italian in... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Strategies for Basic Provisioning
In the context of environmental, inequality, housing and energy crises,... 		Degrowth as a political project?
The degrowth opportunities in ongoing EU policy files
While the discourse on the need for systemic change of our economic system is... 		Degrowth as a political project?
The Good Life for All in the Digital Double Classroom
One key challenge in Education for Degrowth (EfD) is the lack of its... 		Degrowth as a political project?
The revolutionary politics of a degrowth transition
Research in degrowth has provided a detailed analysis of the social... 		Degrowth as a political project?
The role of deliberative democracy in radical food-system transformation
Against the backdrop of the urgent necessity to transform the global food... 		Degrowth as a political project?
The role of the circular economy in the 2020s’ critical juncture: Path-fixer, path-opener or path-breaker?
The circular economy is usually portrayed as a pathbreaking concept,... 		Degrowth as a political project?
The unwritten Yugoslavian history of degorwth
Self-management in Yugoslavia was an authentic form of joint labour. It... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Towards a Post-Growth Deal: Introducing the REAL EU-ERC Synergy project
In this presentation, we will introduce the recently awarded project “REAL: A... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Why degrowth needs communism, and communism needs degrowth
The workshop aims to instigate a dialogue, so far largely missing, between... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Why sufficiency? Necessity, potentials and legitimacy
The evidence supporting the notion that sustainability goals cannot be... 		Degrowth as a political project?
Working through Degrowth –  elements of Ecological Syndicalism
SCHEDULING TO BE UPDATED (move it to the 4:30 slot on the same day) What... 		Degrowth as a political project?

Alternative economies

  Title Theme Speakers
Advancing research on degrowth and post-growth organization
What are the implications of degrowth for organization(s)? How can we... 		Alternative economies
A Free Store Grows in Manhattan
In this session, I will bring participants on a journey and discussion... 		Alternative economies
Agrarian degrowth and re-ruralization
Fossil fuel enabled industrial capitalism and the resulting processes of... 		Alternative economies
Alternative organising against the plastic crisis
Plastics, which are made of fossil fuels, constitute 8% of global greenhouse... 		Alternative economies
Anthropology and degrowth: deepening the dialogue
So far anthropologists have had very limited direct engagement with degrowth.... 		Alternative economies
Breaking Free From Mining
Overconsumption and the paradigm of infinite economic growth require vast... 		Alternative economies
Co-capitalism: Degrowth within Capitalism
Co-capitalism is defined as collective, cooperative, and co-owned capitalism.... 		Alternative economies
Commoning education
Commons and commoning are often promoted as both an alternative way of... 		Alternative economies
Consumption is a myth: people are investors, not consumers
In Global North economies, 15-25% of GDP is typically invested in the... 		Alternative economies
Crafting alternatives to capitalist labor
Multiple calls exist to profoundly change capitalist provisioning systems and... 		Alternative economies
Degrowth: A monetary or ‘real values’ economy?
This workshop sets up a participatory discussion on the need, or not, of a... 		Alternative economies
Degrowth and the Artisan Class
Five decades after The Limits to Growth was published, it is exceedingly... 		Alternative economies
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation
The profound socio-economic transformations implied by degrowth concern the... 		Alternative economies
Development of a (lifebuoy) blue doughnut economy for the ocean
The ocean is the biggest ecosystem supporting life on Earth. In order to... 		Alternative economies
Discovering Diverse Financing
The field of finance is conceived as the epitome of our capitalist economy to... 		Alternative economies
Diverse monies in a degrowth world: the making and lasting of alternative currencies
There has been a resurgence of research in the utility of regional,... 		Alternative economies
Ecovillage scale-up and its wellbeing challenges
Community level initiatives are important in the transition to... 		Alternative economies
Energy communities as facilitators of energy sufficiency
The world is consuming energy beyond what can be considered sustainable,... 		Alternative economies
Eunice Asiedu: "Bridging the Divide - The European, African And Asian Labour Market and The Degrowth Nexus"
By 2050, Africa’s population is projected to reach 2.2 billion. A key... 		Alternative economies
Exploring alternative economies as social innovations towards degrowth: the case of La Doume, a local currency in the Puy De Dôme department, France
Recent coronavirus pandemic has exposed the flaws in our current economic... 		Alternative economies
Exploring degrowth proposals
Degrowth – the planned and democratic reduction of production and consumption... 		Alternative economies
Exploring possibilities of community-led initiatives to engage with local policy makers and citizens for collaborative action towards degrowth-based local provisioning
This paper investigates strategies for collaboration of community-led... 		Alternative economies
Feminist Alternative Economies: Towards Radical Emancipatory Horizons
This activity has two objectives. The first is to make visible various... 		Alternative economies
How payments for ecosystem services can undermine Indigenous institutions: The case of Peru's Ampiyacu-Apayacu watershed
Payments for ecosystem services have come to dominate international policies... 		Alternative economies
How Should an Economist Act in a Climate and Environmental Emergency?
Given the close connection between the production processes that make up the... 		Alternative economies
Incubators for a Community Economy
Today’s major societal challenges require require resilient and democratic... 		Alternative economies
Life satisfaction and socio-economic vulnerability: evidence from the Basic Income experiment in Barcelona
This work focuses on the implications of introducing a variation of a Basic... 		Alternative economies
Memories and hunches of life otherwise: re-valuing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures, learning from the Souths-within-the-North.
In this article I argue for a radical inclusion of rural areas and of... 		Alternative economies
Modern Systemic Economics of Human-Technology-Nature Connection
Multiple crises of climate, biodiversity, political, economic and social... 		Alternative economies
On economics as a metabolic process:
The purpose of this essay is to bring together some of the most salient... 		Alternative economies
Planning Beyond Growth: the case for economic democracy within limits
Degrowth and post-growth economics has emerged as a particularly fruitful... 		Alternative economies
Post-growth agrifood systems: now
Contemporary agrifood systems are infected with growth-thinking. Too often,... 		Alternative economies
Prefigurative and Community Action Research in the Context of Agile, Decolonial and Speculative Research
A multitude of formal and informal collective projects are actively working... 		Alternative economies
Principles and Models of Community-based Organisations in the Anthropocene
The current paper shares the results of qualitative multi-case study... 		Alternative economies
Reclaiming the Circular Economy
Degrowth's call for downscaling of production and consumption in high-income... 		Alternative economies
Solidarity-BASED economy and territory: transformative practices in Friuli Venezia Giulia region
The University of Udine has long been involved in research aimed at studying... 		Alternative economies
Sufficiency is care work – how to combine care theories with circular value creation?
Sufficiency calls for the absolute reduction of production and consumption... 		Alternative economies
The Cooperative Potential of various Alternative Economic Systems: A Systematic Comparison
The need to transform our capitalist economic system has become widely... 		Alternative economies
The economic growth imperative: A pluralist, comparative review and assessment of key theories
This paper reviews key theories of economic growth imperatives and carves out... 		Alternative economies
The money supply and degrowth: challenges and possible solutions
It is now widely acknowledged that the vast majority of money that exists in... 		Alternative economies
The potential of common based solutions for a just transformation
The era of fossil-fuel based growth is ending. What we perceive as a multiple... 		Alternative economies
Unpacking Philippines Zero Waste Community Sites as a pathway for Degrowth
The socio-ecological crisis has brought about various pathways to rethink... 		Alternative economies
UPDATE: Degrowth and informal waste work: who cleans for a just transition?
This paper will focus upon informally self-employed waste pickers and how... 		Alternative economies
Urban Commoning Politics and Policies
This paper will present an interpretation of Belgian Philosopher Isabelle... 		Alternative economies
Village Voices
This contribution connects the quest for future-apt rural areas to the... 		Alternative economies
“You should research real beekeepers!”
The necessary shift to new food systems and convivial conservation requires... 		Alternative economies

Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense

  Title Theme Speakers
Advertising degrowth
One of capitalism’s greatest tricks is to make so many believe that they can... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Capitalism and the meaning of life
Philosophical considerations have always been woven into economic thinking.... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Communicating degrowth ideas: beyond the to-do list
The degrowth movement has a strong support in the academic field and it is... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Degrowth education- Experiences from the two Degrowth masters in Barcelona
Research and Degrowth is a non-profit association based in Barcelona,... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Degrowth journal
Degrowth has become a thriving academic field, with several hundreds of... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Discussing degrowth climate utopias with diverse stakeholders
Backcasting is an effective, goal-oriented, participatory and problem-solving... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Embodying and enacting degrowth
In this work, an experiential methodology is developed to make an inquiry on... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
"Exploring Minimalist Emotions: A Cross-Cultural Study in the United Kingdom and Thailand”
Minimalists, i.e., individuals who live with fewer material items than other... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Fairytales of Growth
"Fairytales of Growth is a documentary on climate change, degrowth and system... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
“Frugal abundance”: A useful concept for degrowth
The concept of “frugal abundance” has recently been mentioned in numerous... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
How to teach Degrowth in economic higher education?
The grand challenges of our times are seriously interlinked: ecological... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Safe and just sharing
There are multiple crises unfolding from multidimensional ecological crises... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
The ‘CapCollage’
Degrowth is about criticizing a globalizing and growth-oriented... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
the evolution of our consciousness drives the evolution of our economy
in this session we play a simple yet powerful simulation of our new economy.... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
(un)maker Faire
Within contemporary economic rational thinking, the act of “making... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
Value Theory and Practice
Communicating degrowth requires us to articulate abstract theory in a way... 		Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense

Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies

  Title Theme Speakers
A Forgotten Feminist History of Universal Basic Income and Universal Responsible Production
How would ‘responsible production and consumption’, goal 12 of Sustainable... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Decolonizing degrowth
As a movement and a research field, degrowth emerged in opposition to a... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Decolonizing the human domination of the Earth
In the Anthropocene, all earthbound beings habit a human-dominated Earth.... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Degrowth as a project of decolonization
In 1972, social philosopher André Gorz coined the word ‘degrowth’, arguing... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Degrowth inscriptions within queer and decolonial struggles
The subalternisation of beings segmented by the categories of species, sex,... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Degrowth meets Feminist Political Ecology: Towards a care-full and pluridiverse intersectional degrowth transformation
In this two-parted session, affiliates of the Feminism and Degrowth Alliance... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Degrowth meets Feminist Political Ecology: Towards a care-full and pluridiverse intersectional degrowth transformation
In this two-parted session, affiliates of the Feminism and Degrowth Alliance... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
How a care centric degrowth is necessary to promote a sustainable eco-social future that values everyone
Capitalism reproduces injustices and inequalities across social and... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
How waste pickers are being sidelined in Global South cities: A network analysis
Waste pickers are essential actors of the waste management of Global South... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Inclusiveness in practice
How to become a movement which is truly inclusive of non-white, non-cis-male... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
‘It was uncomfortable but not unbearable’ - experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities on the 9 euro ticket in Germany
In summer 2022, the government of Germany implemented the 9 euro ticket.... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Learning from the Global South: Degrowth and the Limits of Modernity
Degrowth is a movement developed in the Global North and, naturally, it is... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Lessons from death
Following the diagnosis of a stage four glioblastoma, a family member with... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Masculinities and Degrowth: breaking away from the hegemonic model
UPDATE: Tadeas Zdarsky will be running this session Degrowth advocates for... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Mining soils: political ontological foundations of soil extractivism in Europe
Soils are a foundational part of relational and interdependent planetary... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Modern economics as male-dominated thought construct to support colonial hegemony – and the implications for degrowth thought and policy advice
This paper establishes that modern economics uses a male-dominated... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Mother Nature the Goddess
In this session we’ll present excerpts from our film “Kunna”. The purpose is... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Practices of Conviviality
This panel will bring together contributions from Ecofeminism, Feminist... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
SEEDS OF DEGROWTH IN THE SOUTH?
Too often, within the framework of global theoretical and political debates,... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
The degrowth movement needs a critique of state sovereignty
Max Koch (2022) argues that the degrowth movement needs to adopt a... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
The feminist response to Agri-capitalism:
Developing countries continue to face challenges of food insecurity,... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
“The Long Way Home”: The Politics of Selfcare and Yoga in Global Capitalism
The caption read, “Took the long way home, away from the hustle and bustle... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Time and Space for Social-Ecological Transformation: Care-Full Commoning in and beyond the Ecofeminist City
Bottom-up insurgent practices and processes of commoning are highly relevant... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies
Turning away from Growth with state-less Democracy
Degrowth, as a broad spectrum of proposals and advocacies, is united in the... 		Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies

Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices

  Title Theme Speakers
Agroversitat. Art, agroecology and critical pedagogies in the Valencian horta.
Initiated in 2022 by Viridian art collective, Agroversitat is a project... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Artistic take on material premises of new technologies
A presentation will focus on art practices that address the specific material... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Capturing the European Other
My name is Mina Archontaki (b. 1997, Rethymno, Greece) and I am an... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Degrowth, Crises and Snails
In my paper I will analyse the theatre play Krize (Crises), (2022, dir. Žiga... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Ecofeminism or death. Ecofeminist art as a tool of practicing degrowth principles
The aim of the proposed paper is to analyze how the principles of degrowth... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Germinar-t: a community based degrowth art residency
To create a space at the intersection of degrowth and art is necessary,... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Less is enough. Degrowth in (post)artistic practices
The aim of the session is to reflect on artistic strategies of practicing the... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Less is enough. Eco-art assemblies in Poland as tools for practising the culture of moderation
The paper analyzes the historical and contemporary Polish eco-art assemblies,... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Presentation of the Re-Geppetto repair caffe in Pula
On behalf of Green Istria, we propose a short, 20-30 minutes presentation... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Promiscuous Infrastructures
The Promiscuous Care Study Group emerged from the need to build up learning... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices
Unleashing Fantasy for Transformation
Building on the work of novelist Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) we explore the... 		Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices

Resilience building through degrowth

  Title Theme Speakers
A ‘return forward’?
Within degrowth there is so far a limited and unproductive understanding of... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Bringing degrowth into management education?
How is degrowth being brought into management education? This session will... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Coercive Power and the Shaping of Civil Society Activism: A Study of Bologna's Social-Ecological Transformation
In Miraftab (2017), the relationship between civil society activism and the... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Contesting a new wave of green extractivism in Europe: How can the degrowth movement support anti-mining struggles on the ground?
In summer 2021, we conducted ethnographic field research in a rural area in... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Conversion towards a Just Transition?
The German car industry is transitioning away from internal combustion... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Degrowth as a means to an intergenerationally just future
While degrowth scholars have increasingly examined the relationship between... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues IV
Our paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Degrowth from the East I
Degrowth is often thought of as one ‘movement’, 'community' or conversation,... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Degrowth from the East II
Degrowth is often thought of as one ‘movement’, 'community' or conversation,... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Degrowth Getting its Hands Dirty?
Regular perusers of Degrowth scholarship frequently encounter fleeting... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Degrowth practices at local level: participative community management of local resources in Slovenia
The key elements of community based sustainable management of local resources... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Dividing roles along flows instead of functions
Degrowth has been questioning the level of role division. But we need to... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Emergent more-than-human anarchisms in a Pyrenean agro-ecosystem
This paper explores the concept of more-than-human anarchisms by connecting... 		Resilience building through degrowth
(Em)powering communities on the journey to energy resilience
The impacts of climate change are affecting regional and rural communities in... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Fertile Ground
Degrowth and Food Sovereignty movements have a shared interest in defending... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Health Commons for Degrowth
Living a healthy life is desired, and it is believed that health must be... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Identifying different narratives of Agroecology in Turkey: The cases of Nilüfer and Seferihisar Municipalities
Agroecology, as a 'science, practice and movement', and especially as a... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Low -Level Renovation
Low-level renovation refers to making small-scale changes to existing... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Notes Towards Inquiring the Politics of Degrowth
While recent publications have put in the centre of degrowth discussions the... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Organizing for degrowth
Research and Degrowth is a non-profit association based in Barcelona... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Posthumanism and Degrowth
Dominant neoliberal economic paradigm is clearly exploitative towards all... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Presentation of the first Community garden in Pula
On behalf of Green Istria, I propose a short, 20-30 minutes presentation... 		Resilience building through degrowth
(Re)allying with the non-human world
Being in close, intimate contact with the living network consisting of... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth-inspired futures
This paper brings degrowth scholarship in conversation with living systems... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Redistribution, Good Work, Public Services – How the social crises open the door for new degrowth support
Inflation-driven poverty, collapsing health systems, demographic pressure,... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Regenerative communities: resistance, existence, and re-existence
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the deep fractures and the baseless promises... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Revolutionary love and relation
In light of the multiple crises advanced by late-stage capitalism, movements... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Science and Activism: Together through the Climate Crisis?
In the past few years, we have witnessed a stark increase in civil society... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Supporting schools to (de)grow from natural hazards
School resilience as the ability of organizations to anticipate, prepare for,... 		Resilience building through degrowth
The Biodiversity Dimension of Degrowth: A Workshop on Strategizing with Convivial Conservation
Convivial Conservation (CC) is a transformative proposal for the systematic... 		Resilience building through degrowth
The Spatiality of Degrowth
Full co-author list: Silvio Cristiano, Anton Brokow-Loga, Karl, Jana Gebauer,... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Towards a Degrowth Struggle
Degrowth has been criticized for its eurocentrism, for being elite-driven and... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Towards a Forum for Caring Societies
The world is currently facing multiple, interconnected crises including... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Towards a science of liberation
To date, proponents of degrowth have largely abstained from engaging with... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Transformational work-policies as pathways to a Degrowth future in tourism? Explorative analysis of the worker’s perspective
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic a lot of emphasis has been put... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Transition towards sustainable agri-food systems
Modern agro-industry, on the one hand, dominated by energy- and... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Translating degrowth ideas and permaculture principles to housing practices
Large part of everyday consumption is related to housing. Conventional... 		Resilience building through degrowth
University community engagement from the bottom up
The degrowth transition requires the transgression of the existing... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Urban food policies without local food producers
Recently, urban food movements have been proliferating in Europe. They... 		Resilience building through degrowth
Who is Degrowth Really For?
It is imperative that any degrowth social movement or research be led by the... 		Resilience building through degrowth

Panel

  Title Theme Speakers
Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances
How can artistic and cultural practices put forward new eco-social practices... 		Panel
Care and Degrowth: Old Acquiantance, New friendship?
Degrowth is premised on reducing material extraction while increasing... 		Panel
Cities in the post-growth era: Theory and Practice, pt. I
In the post-growth debates, there is a growing number of arguments around... 		Panel
Decolonisation and Degrowth: Degrowth Narratives from the Global South and European Perspective(s)
In this debate we want to tackle controversies and contradictions related to... 		Panel
Degrowth and the Political Left
The degrowth movement shares many values with other left-oriented political... 		Panel
Democratic Confederalism in Theory and Practice
Democratic Confederalism is a social concept that takes the basic principles... 		Panel
Françoise Vergès & Maja Solar: Launch of the Croatian translation of "Un féminisme décolonial"
A book launch of the Croatian edition of F. Verges' book 		Panel
GEF knowledge communities: Mike Duff: "Cities and degrowth"
only per invitation 		Panel
GEF knowledge communities: Philippe Pochet: "Welfare states and climates change"
only per invitation 		Panel
Gender perspective of climate justice - stories from societies margins
panelists and detailed description coming soon 		Panel
Geopolitics of Degrowth
It makes sense for the EU to be a frontrunner in the transition to a degrowth... 		Panel
Green European Journal: Can degrowth rescue climate politics?
Climate politics is facing a backlash. From mining to migration, everywhere... 		Panel
Industry, Labour, Work – Degrowth Perspective on Political Economy for Global Periphery
There are legitimate but also unjustified fears related to the future of... 		Panel
Maritza Islas: "Living in the Capitalocene: Bodies, Territories, and the Web of Life" (Workshop)
At the beginning of the 21st century, the concept of the Anthropocene entered... 		Panel
Post-growth Pluriverse(s) in Policy Spehere(s): European Green Deal and Beyond
During this high-level panel the intention is to provide a critical and... 		Panel

Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon

  Title Theme Speakers
Beyond fossil extractivism?
Climate change and the loss of biodiversity restrict the scarce, sustainably... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Blue Degrowth
The ocean is under increasing pressure from the growth of the global economy,... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Climate-Economy Modelling and Degrowth's Counter-Hegemonic Struggle
This paper looks at the politics of climate-economy modelling to understand... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Concepts of health and illness within the Portuguese degrowth movement
In 2022, the Portuguese Degrowth Network organized a series of events on the... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Confronting Growthism: Tales of sufficiency from the Global South
Development discourse can still be seen as being hegemonic, in spite of... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Current crisis from the perspective of growth and non-growth economies An Assessment of the Applicability of Sustainability Indicators
The principles of sustainable development are an essential part of the effort... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Deconstructing biodiversity offsets: An exploration of ontological conflicts and alternative approaches to conservation in Finland and Colombia
Together with other market-oriented approaches to conservation, biodiversity... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Decoupling or cost-shifting? Air pollution in a sprawling city (Warsaw, Poland).
Both the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and Environmental Justice (EJ)... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Degrowth and agri‑food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences
Degrowth has become a recognised paradigm for identifying and critiquing... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Ethics for degrowth: some insights from N. Georgescu-Roegen’s bioeconomics
The analysis is mainly based on the contributions of ethics and bioeconomics... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Fossil Health: A Conceptual Proposal for Understanding Socio-Ecological Health Dependencies in the Anthropocene
Health imaginaries are an expression of social imaginaries, or of the... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
From local staple food to superfood
The sudden rise in global demand for so-called ‘superfoods’ has led to a boom... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
From Marxist development theories to their translation in the degrowth discourse: Transforming unequal international structures for environmental sustainability
This chapter aims to connect two important movements that have dealt with the... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Health and Degrowth in times of Pandemic
The emergence of the pandemic is connected to the overexploitation of human... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
How should degrowth approach power contestations of social change?
Degrowth implicitly questions the power relations behind social and... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
How to understand the hegemony of automobility in times of the socio-ecological crisis?
Since the beginning of the 20th century our transport system is dominated by... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Integrating IAMs to Mainstream Degrowth Ideals
In this 90-minute session, participants will explore the potential of... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Interweaving degrowth, postwork, and postdevelopment: Visions of post-productivist futures
How is challenging the hegemony of growth tied to challenging the hegemony of... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Living in the ‘doughnut’: reconsidering the boundaries via composite indicators
The concept of ‘planetary boundaries’, worked out by Rockström et al. (2009),... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Mirela Holy: " Degrowth and Circular Economy: Synergy Approach for Sustainable Croatia"
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung sessions 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Operationalizing the consumption corridor: how to jointly detect the limits of “enough”?
In the core of sustainability is the question of limits. Degrowth scholarship... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Peak-Oil: definition, key dimensions and relevance for Degrowth horizons
Some of the most prominent Degrowth authors have once been criticized for... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Proximity and care: towards alternative ethics of future tourism practices
The paper aims to grasp and rethink proximity tourism in the context of... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Realism of Pessimism: The Opium of Overconsumption Under Islamist Authoritarian Regime of Erdoğan
As Turkey’s general election approaches, the authoritarian-cum-conservative... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Sensing urban manufacturing: sensible production in a small Swiss town
Environmental destruction, social inequalities, geopolitical... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Shifting paradigms of health, illness and death: challenges for degrowth concepts of wellbeing
Degrowth envisions societies overcoming resource depletion, uncontrolled... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Systemic vulnerability to fossil fuels – Too central to fail?
Phasing-out fossil fuels is an urgent, mandatory imperative to increase the... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
The role of common senses for the transition to a degrowth society
My participatory-based research empirically applies degrowth theories to... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
The sustainability spectacle
Why, even when faced by overwhelming evidence of the already ongoing climate... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Towards post-growth scenarios for climate mitigation
Existing climate mitigation scenarios assume future rates of economic growth... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Using quantum physics metaphors to understand the entangled nature of social transformation
Degrowth is primarily about transforming current economic and social... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
Weaving Alternatives to Polycrises:
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) is an initiative seeking to create... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
WHAT DO DATA TELL US ABOUT DEGROWTH VALUES? EVIDENCE FROM WORLD VALUES SURVEY AND EUROPEAN VALUES SURVEY
Degrowth is a multidisciplinary movement that argues that endless growth on a... 		Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon

Keynote

  Title Theme Speakers
Breathing: A Revolutionary Act
How do we turn the right to breathe into a struggle that is decolonial,... 		Keynote
Decolonial Worldmaking and the Contradictory Ecological Politics of Non-Alignment
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a partnership between decolonial states in... 		Keynote
Degrowth in an African Periphery: Recentering Decoloniality around Ecocentric and Circular Ontologies
The hegemonic capitalist system likes to argue that endless growth is... 		Keynote
Marx meets Degrowth: On the Origin of Degrowth Communism
The relationship between Marxism and degrowth was antagonistic for quite a... 		Keynote
The Climate Case for Questioning Our Growth Paradigm
It was in 2022 when the IPCC first mentioned Degrowth and sufficiency in its... 		Keynote
The role of utopia in a Degrowth transition
Degrowth activists and researchers are often dismissed on account of pursuing... 		Keynote
The state, class inequalities, and their affective reverberations: considerations for a degrowth transition
This talk is inspired by stories collected over the last decade as part of... 		Keynote

Climate (in)justice

  Title Theme Speakers
Coloniality and Climate Change Mitigation: Social movements at a crossroads of a globally just energy transition
The transition from fossil-based to decarbonized energy systems lies in the... 		Climate (in)justice
Ecological reparations and degrowth: Towards a convergence of alternatives around world-making after growth
Faced with multiple crises, recent years have seen the rise of degrowth as a... 		Climate (in)justice
Gender justice in the energy poverty challenge
Women in all their diversity are disproportionately affected by energy... 		Climate (in)justice
Household consumption and emissions from corrected microdata
One key question within the existing literature on the interrelation between... 		Climate (in)justice
Modelling Degrowth
The challenges related to environmental degradation in general and climate... 		Climate (in)justice
Olha Boiko: "Walking a mile in EECCA activists’ shoes towards climate justice"
What do we know about being a civil society activist in Eastern Europe,... 		Climate (in)justice
Phasing out fossil fuels, supporting climate justice
This session is based around a new discussion paper on the Cap and Share... 		Climate (in)justice
Regenerative Parallaxing: Encouraging Trans-scalar Environmental Justice Research
Environmental justice research critically explores the bridging between... 		Climate (in)justice
Room to grow and the right to say no
This article builds on feminist and decolonial perspectives and engages... 		Climate (in)justice
The need for a border perspective in the Degrowth discourse
So far questions about migration and borders have been rarely touched upon... 		Climate (in)justice
Transport poverty in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
Transport poverty is a phenomenon, which is on the rise in CEE. Upcoming EU... 		Climate (in)justice

Degrowth in the year 2023

  Title Theme Speakers
Convergence of crises and possible degrowth pathways in Latvia
The ongoing climate and environmental breakdown, the COVID-19 pandemic, and... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
Degrowth as the experience of finitude
Contemporary societies are flooded with scientific information on ecological... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
Living Well Within Limits: ideas, results and ways forward
In this presentation, we synthesize 6 years of the Living Well Within Limits... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
Paving own path of recovery - listening to voices from Ukraine
The war is not over yet, but both Ukrainian and international communities... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
Post-earthquake Housing Policies from the Perspective of Degrowth
Turkey was hit by two major earthquakes on 6 February 2023 with 7.7 and 7.6... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
The Birth of the International Degrowth Network: Outcome of the Degrowth Movement Assembly and Workshops with International Working Groups
Throughout 2023, the open collective Organising the Degrowth Network (ODN)... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
The De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth: Propositions and Prospects
Special Session Proposal Format: Book Discussion of De Gruyter Handbook of... 		Degrowth in the year 2023
When Degrowth is real
It has now become clear: We are living in a new era. Security cannot be taken... 		Degrowth in the year 2023

Contemporary emancipatory internationalism

  Title Theme Speakers
Degrowth beyond the metropole
This paper brings the Global South to the center stage of degrowth debates to... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism
Degrowth, deglobalization, and localization
The growthism intrinsic to capitalism necessarily leads to, depends on, and... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism
Degrowth for Peace? Proudhon's international theory and its relevance for the geopolitical implications of degrowth
Degrowth has failed to adequately address the geopolitical implications of... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism
Meet and join the Degrowth Movement
The open collective ODN (Organising the Degrowth Network) is inviting to this... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism
Nithi Nesadurai: "Equity-based De-Growth: Pathways for Living Well Within the Ecological Limits of One Planet“ (Workshop)
The intersection between Degrowth, and Equity and Ecological Limits will be... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism
On International solidarity and economic decolonization
Within the global health field, progress is being made to adopt a justice and... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism
(Re)constructing agents of power in the care economy sector
There would not be any economic action if it were not for care work to enable... 		Contemporary emancipatory internationalism