We welcome abstract submissions to our special session on Power and politics in agri-food system transformation at the upcoming conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics (Pisa, Italy, 14-17 June 2022).   Submissions via this link.   Session description Sustainability transformations are inherently political. The processes and outcomes of sustainability transformations are shaped by…

On 24 September Julia Spanier presented her paper ‘Remnants and memories of the past in the rural places of grassroots innovation. The case of Community Supported Agriculture in Germany‘at the IOER Annual Conference 2021: Space & Transformation held at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Dresden, Germany).   Abstract: This paper speaks…

On 1 September 2021 Jacob Smessaert and Giuseppe Feola presented papers at the Royal Geographical Society’s (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2021. Jacob and Giuseppe took part in the session ‘The Role of Radical Food Geography Praxis in Food Studies’ convened by Charles Levkoe, Kristin Reynolds and Colleen Hammelman. They presented the…

The UNMAKING team contributed en masse to the 8th International Degrowth Conference that took place between 23-28 August in Den Haag (the Netherlands). The UNMAKING team (co-)organized various conference sessions: Conference plenary on Anarchism and Degrowth (co-organized by Jacob Smessaert), Conference plenary on Dutch Social Movements and Degrowth (co-organized by Laura van Oers) Conference plenary…

The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions. By: Laura van Oers, Giuseppe Feola, Ellen Moors, Hens Runhaar. Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 40, 159-171. Abstract: This paper advances scholarship on deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions. To understand how deliberate destabilisation plays out in practice, the politics of such processes must be confronted….

On 18 June Laura van Oers and Jacob Smessaert presented at the 2021 SPRU PhD Forum: Collaboration in Context: Advancing Research and Policy Practices in Science, Technology, and Innovation. Laura and Jacob’s presentation focuses on a project that aims to set-up a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) in the Netherlands – an alternative to conventional third-party certification…

On 17 June 2021 Giuseppe Feola presented the paper ‘(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism‘ at the Transformations 2021 conference (held online). The full paper was recently published in the journal Global Environmental Change as: Feola, G., Koretskaya, O., Moore, D., 2021. (Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism. Global Environmental Change 69, 102290.

On 12 June Jacob Smessaert and Julia Spanier gave a workshop on ‘Envisioning Food systems for Degrowth‘ at ASEED’s Food Autonomy Festival, which was held in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Wageningen. The workshop took place in Utrecht. Envisioning Food Systems for Degrowth This workshop invites participants to explore how food production, distribution and consumption may be…

(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism by: Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, Danika Moore. Published in: Global Environmental Change 69, 102290   Theorizations of sustainability transformation have foregrounded the construction (making) of novel socioecological relations; however, they generally have obscured processes of deliberate deconstruction (unmaking) of existing, unsustainable ones. Amidst ever more compelling evidence of the…

On 7 June 2021 Leonie Guerrero Lara presented her paper ‘CSA as a social movement: a comparative case study of the national networks in Germany and Italy‘ at the Alternative Futures & Popular Protest conference, hosted by the University of Manchester. Abstract: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), a grassroots-led alternative model of food production and consumption,…