Key theoretical publications on the concept of unmaking

Feola, G., Vincent, O., Moore, D., 2021. (Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism. Global Environmental Change 69, 102290.

Feola., G., 2019. Degrowth and the unmaking of capitalism: beyond ‘decolonization of the imaginary’ ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 18(4), 977-997.

Scientific peer-reviewed publications in reverse chronological order

Forthcoming

Smessaert, J., Feola, G., (in press). On the practices and possibilities of autonomous more-than-human political communities. Journal of Political Ecology.

Feola, G., (in press). Postgrowth food systems: critique, visions, pathways. Degrowth Journal.

van Oers, L., Feola, G., Moors, E., Runhaar, H., (in press). Facilitating unlearning in agricultural education: preparing for family-farm succession. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension.

Raj, G. (in press). Selective, reciprocal and quiet: Lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values.

Rossi, A., Piccoli, A., Feola, G. (in press). Transforming labour around food? the experience of community supported agriculture in Italy Agriculture and Human Values.

2025

Pixová, M., Spanier, J., Guerrero Lara, L., Smessaert, J., Sandwell, K., Strenchock, L., Lehner, I., Feist, J., Reichelt, L. & Plank, C., 2025. Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements. Journal of Political Ecology 32(1).

2024

van Oers, L., Smessaert, J., Feola, G., 2024. Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri-food initiative: An analysis of social processes. Sociologia Ruralis 64(4), 571-591.

Smessaert, J., Feola, G., 2024. Becoming-interdependent: democratic praxis in-against-and-beyond capitalism in agrifood collectives. Antipode 56(5), 1903-1926.

Lonkila, A., Lukkarinen, J., van Oers, L., Feola, G., Kaljonen, M., 2024. Just destabilisation? Considering justice in the phase-out of peat. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 52, 100867.

Patterson, J.J., Feola, G., Kim, R., 2024. Negotiating discord in sustainability transformations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (21) e2310186121.

Raj, G., Feola, G., Runhaar, H., 2024. Work in progress: power in transformation to postcapitalist work relations in community–supported agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values 41(1), 1-23.

Spanier, J., Guerrero Lara, L., Feola, G., 2024. A one-sided love affair? On the potential for a coalition between degrowth and community-supported agriculture in Germany. Agriculture and Human Values 41, 25-45.

Guerrero Lara, Feola, G., Driessen, P., 2024. Drawing Boundaries: Negotiating a Collective ‘We’ in Community-Supported Agriculture Networks . Journal of Rural Studies 106, 103197.

Frank, L., Feola., G., Schäpke, N., 2024. Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 50, 100810.

2023

Smessaert, J., Feola, G., 2023. Beyond statism and deliberation: questioning ecological democracy through eco-anarchism and cosmopolitics. Environmental Values 32(6), 765-793.

Guerrero Lara, L., van Oers, L., Smessaert, J., Spanier, J., Raj, G., Feola, G., 2023. Degrowth and Agri-Food Systems: A Research Agenda for the Critical Social Sciences. Sustainability Science 18, 1579–1594.

van Oers, L., Feola, G., Runhaar, H., Moors, E., 2023. Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 46, 100693.

2022

Raj, G., Feola, G., Hajer, M., Runhaar, H., 2022. Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 43, 375-392.

Spanier, J., Feola, G. 2022. Nurturing the post-growth city: bringing the rural back in. In: Savini, F., Ferreria, A., von Schönfeld, K. C. (Eds.)  Post-Growth Planning: cities beyond the market economy. Routledge, 159-172. 

2021

Van Oers, L., Feola, G., Moors, E., Runhaar, H., 2021. The Politics of Deliberate Destabilisation for Sustainability Transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 40, 159-171.

Feola, G., Vincent, O., Moore, D., 2021. (Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism. Global Environmental Change 69, 102290.

2020

Vincent, O., Feola, G., 2020. A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems. Journal of Rural Studies 20, 302-313.

Feola, G., 2020. Capitalism in sustainability transitions research: Time for a critical turn? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 35, 241-250.

2019

Feola., G., 2019. Degrowth and the unmaking of capitalism: beyond ‘decolonization of the imaginary’ ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 18(4), 977-997.

Other scientific publications

van Oers, L., 2022. Unlearning in Grassroots Innovations for Sustainability: Rethinking Payment in Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). In: Deutzkens, N., et al (Eds.) Challenges for Environmental and Sustainability Education in Times of Climate Crisis. Ghent University.

Feola, G., Guerrero Lara, L., Smessaert, J. Spanier, J., 2020. Book Review: The Case for Degrowth. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 37: 381-382.

Feola, G., 2020. Open Societies and Ecological Challenges: Transformation to Sustainability? In: Bovens, M., and Duvell, M. (Eds.) 2020. The Open Society and its Future. Institutions for Open Societies Think Paper Series #1, Utrecht University, pp. 27-39.