Readings and Media About Degrowth

A selection.


Introductory Books

The case for Degrowth - Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa & Federico Demaria (2020)
Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for Transformation - edited volume (2020)
Degrowth: Vocabulary for a New Era - edited volume (2015)

Articles

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  • Degrowth Overview

The Political Economy of Degrowth - Timothée Parrique (2019)
Degrowth Considered
The Rise and Future of the Degrowth Movement
From Growth to Degrowth: A Brief History

  • Degrowth and the Environment

Why Growth Can’t Be Green
Stop Misdiagnosing Climate Change
Green growth or degrowth? Assessing the normative justifications for environmental sustainability and economic growth through critical social theory - Sandberg et al., 2019

  • Degrowth and Technology

The Matrix of Convivial Technology : Assessing technologies for degrowth - Andrea Vetter (2018)
Farming within limits - Lindsay Barbieri et al. (2019)
Degrowth and Technology: Towards feasible, viable, appropriate and convivial imaginaries - Christian Kerschner et al. (2018)

  • Degrowth and Decolonization

Climate justice, commons and degrowth - Ellie Perkins (2019)
What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach - Corinna Dengler & Lisa Marie Seebacher (2019)

  • Degrowth and Feminisms

Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation - Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (2020)

  • Degrowth and Racial Justice

The World is Yours: “Degrowth”, Racial Inequality and Sustainability - Brian Gilmore (2013)

  • Degrowth and the Economy

The Degrowth Movement Challenges the Conventional Wisdom on Economic Health
Degrowth: The Case for a New Economic Paradigm
Economics for a Full World

  • Degrowth and Activism

Reclaiming sustainable space: A study of degrowth activists - Lloveras et al., 2019
Degrowth and Christiania: on Copenhagen’s collective living experiment
Degrowth resonates: a reflection on DegrowthFest 2020

  • Degrowth and Development

Forget developing poor countries. It’s time to ‘de-develop’ rich countries.
Time for degrowth: to save the planet, we must shrink the economy
Re-taking Sustainable Development for Degrowth

  • Critiques of Degrowth

(Still) Against Degrowth Forbes (2020)
Constructive criticism of degrowth is NOT support for growth: a response to Forbes Vandana Sharma and Gabriela Cabaña (2020)

The Degrowth Delusion Leigh Philips (2019)
In Defence of Degrowth Andrea Grainger (2019)


Videos

‘Our addiction to economic growth is killing us’ (Jason Hickel)
The Degrowth Paradigm (Abby Martin and Charles Eisenstein)
Why Degrowth? (William Rees)
Why Growth and the Environment Can’t Coexist (Sam Bliss)
The Economics of Enough (Dan O’Niell)

Other Books and Articles of interest

Environmentalism of the Rich Peter Dauvergne (2016)
As the World Burns: 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial (graphic novel-style!) Derrick Jensen & Stephanie MacMillan When They Call You a Terrorist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele (2018)