UNMAKING: a research programme on the disruption of capitalism in societal transformation to sustainability

Welcome to the website of the research programme UNMAKING, which aims to understand to what extent, under what conditions and through what processes radical grassroots innovations unmake modern, capitalist institutions and practice.

Radical civil society initiatives may hold the potential to transform society toward sustainability. This project will use a novel interdisciplinary theory and an innovative combination of methods to explain whether, when and how radical civil society initiatives unmake environmentally disruptive institutions and practices that are deeply ingrained in capitalist societies.

Leadership

This programme is led by Dr. Giuseppe Feola and hosted by the Section of Environmental Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development.

Funding

This research programme consists of two separate, but parallel projects funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) through a Vidi Research Grant, and by the European Research Council (ERC) through a Starting Grant, respectively.

News

29 October 2020

New publication: A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems

Olga Koretskaya and Giuseppe Feola published a paper titled A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems in the Journal of ...

07 October 2020

Giuseppe Feola discusses bottom-up approaches to sustainability at GeoHouse debate

7 October 2020 The Geosciences Honours College organized the Geohouse: Bottom-up and top-down approaches to sustainability: strengths and weaknesses Dr. ...

28 September 2020

New publication: Open Societies and Ecological Challenges: Transformation to Sustainability?

As part of the collection ‘The Open Society and its Future‘ (free download here), Giuseppe Feola published a chapter titled ‘Open ...

23 September 2020

The UNMAKING research team convened a conference session at the POLLEN Biennial Conference 2020 for Political Ecology

The conference session “Unmaking the capitalist production of nature: exploring processes of (de)construction”, explored the different insights that ...

04 September 2020

Giuseppe Feola gives talk at Alternative Visions Festival

04 September 2020. Giuseppe Feola gave a talk today at the Alternative Visions – Festival of Humans, Artworks and Ideas held at Stroom in Den Haag. ...

21 August 2020

UNMAKING team presents at IST 2020

Laura van Oers, Guilherme Raj, and Giuseppe Feola presented at the 11th International Sustainability Transition Conference on 18-21 August. Laura van ...

19 June 2020

Interview on UNMAKING with Giuseppe Feola

Giuseppe Feola was interviewed on the sidelines of his keynote talk at the recent Transformations to Sustainability virtual workshop hosted by the ...

10 June 2020

Podcast on Degrowth with Giuseppe Feola

Giuseppe Feola was interviewed by the team of the NGO Action for Solidarity Environment Equality and Diversity (ASEED) on degrowth, its connection to food ...

28 May 2020

Giuseppe Feola gives Keynote talk at International Science Council

28 May 2020. Giuseppe Feola gave a keynote talk at the International Science Council’s Transformations to Sustainability virtual Workshop today. ...

08 May 2020

Three UNMAKING team presentations at the 5th NEST conference

Three memebers of the UNMAKING team presented at the 5th Network for Early career researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) Conference ...

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