🚨New publication!
An Essay by Giorgos Kallis and Giacomo D'Alisa titled "Towards eco-socialist degrowth: class and political strategy" explores what eco-socialist degrowth could look like, and who could lead it.
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❓ Is degrowth Eurocentric?
It is a question Carlos Tornel adresses in an essay. Reflecting on the 2025 International Degrowth Conference in Oslo, he points to a key tension in how degrowth and development were discussed regarding the Global North compared to the Global South.
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🎨🧵 Touché: A Mediterranean collection.
In our Arts Special Issue, Annagreta König Dansokho imagines a textile firm making “Mediterranean‑suitable” floating, water‑repellent, ‘sustainable’ clothes, satirising capitalism & consumer culture. Made from plastic waste.
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🛑🌱 Degrowth is growing, and that makes it a target. Far-right ideas are quietly slipping into degrowth spaces through familiar narratives. A new essay by the Revolutionary Degrowth Group breaks down how it happens and introduces a new tool to expose it.
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❓Where is the anarchy in degrowth?
Editors Alexander Dunlap and Josephine Becker confront this question in an editorial, describing degrowth’s engagement with anarchism as a ‘guilty pleasure’ despite its rebellious energy.
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Art-science-activism for degrowth 🖼️🔬✊Laura Donkers explores how art can nurture collective reflection and shift social norms underpinning the ecological crisis. She illustrates this through the 🌊 Blue Radius project in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Read it here:
doi.org/10.36399/Deg...
The post-growth potentials of design 🌀
In an article from our #Arts Special Issue, Dominika Sobolewska explores the concept of techno-empathy: the cultivation of compassion for human and nonhuman communities through technology.
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🌿 Degrowth and the anarcha-feminist politics of mutual aid herbalisms
Michelle Glowa’s article from our #Anarchy Special Issue examines how herbal mutual aid contributes to degrowth.
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New Publication: ⚡What can degrowth learn from insurgent energy movements?
This paper by Nishikant Sheorey highlights how energy systems, when designed according to anarchic principles, can facilitate degrowth.
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🌱What is anarchism good for in relation to degrowth and food sovereignty?
In our #Anarchy Special Issue, Antonio Roman-Alcalá explores how anarchist ideas resonate with and help advance degrowth and food sovereignty.
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