❓ 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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❓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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🎨🧵 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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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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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:
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🌍How can academia contribute to a just and sustainable future for all?
That is the central question addressed in this recent article by Fernando Racimo, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Rebecca Rutt, and Mads Ejsing. Read it on our website via the link below:
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What happened when a Basque town adopted a local currency? 💸
Drawing from ethnographic research, author Nick N. illustrates how a local digital payment system becomes synonymous with communal thriving, a revitalised local economy, and vibrant social life.
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Spotlight from the Arts Special Issue 🎨
Finding clusters in an emerging research nexus. Julian Willming explores the intersection of art and degrowth by examining emerging discourses in the literature.
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🩺 How does the degrowth movement conceptualize health?
In a new publication, Hans Eickoff explores ideas of health, illness, and death using insights from a survey conducted at the 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb.
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🖤 Meet the Degrowth Journal at the ISEE-Degrowth Conference in Oslo!
Join Degrowth Journal editors @sabrinachakori.bsky.social and @eevahoutbeckers.bsky.social for the special session "Advancing a degrowth-aligned academia".
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🎉 The Degrowth Journal is turning 5!
Read how the Editorial Collective recaps the journey so far and looks toward the horizons ahead in this editorial co-edited by @sabrinachakori.bsky.social
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🌍 It’s Global Degrowth Day!
🗣 At the Degrowth Journal, we celebrate this day as part of the movement calling for a world rooted in care, justice, and wellbeing for people and the planet.
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📣 New Special Issue out now: Anarchy & Degrowth!
The Degrowth Journal is delighted to publish the first two articles of the Anarchy & Degrowth Special Issue, guest edited by Alexander A. Dunlap and Josephine Becker.
👉 Read the first two articles here: www.degrowthjournal.org/volumes/2025...
✍ The Degrowth Journal is looking for copy editors!
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New publication 🚨 "How does the media portray degrowth - and who shapes the discourse?" - Valentin Sagvosdkin
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New publication 🚨 "Winds of change: Supply chain analysis of a wind turbine" - Joshua Ayer
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Announcing the Degrowth Journal’s first Arts Special Issue!
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