Version 3.2
Degrowth journal
Building a slow science fit for a sustainable society
Degrowth has become a thriving academic field, with several hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and a growing community of thinkers and doers. After decades of research, the time has come: degrowth now has its own specialised journal. The Degrowth Journal aims at becoming a platform where authors are able to expand and strengthen the analytical power of degrowth imaginaries.
This session will be organised in three parts. Firstly, the reasons that led the collective of junior scholars to start the journal will be explained. Beyond publishing high-quality research, the journal aims at changing the academic culture, resisting and shifting away from the enclosure of knowledge that continues to exist in the capitalist academic modus operandi. Secondly, the history and development of the journal will be presented. The editors will explain the various values adopted to manage in the most ethical way the journal. The Degrowth Journal promotes a new publication culture, one that puts quality before quantity and that embraces the principles of slow science, an emancipatory science that takes the urgency of the ecological crises seriously while also caring for researchers' well-being. Thirdly, and most importantly, this session will represent an opportunity to meet in-person some of the editors and to discuss expectations from the journal and, vice-versa, from the degrowth community. The session aims at fostering collaboration to develop and strengthen the existence of the Degrowth Journal and, in general, of this academic and activist field.
Info
Day:
2023-08-30
Start time:
16:30
Duration:
01:30
Room:
ZV-8-9
Type:
Non-academic Session
Theme:
Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense
