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.  Abstract It is widely acknowledged that cities are destructive to the environment and the natural resources that sustain human and non-human life (Næss et al., 2020). Any planning for post-growth…

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. Abstract The sustainability transitions scholarship is increasingly applying power and empowerment frameworks to investigate the role of grassroots innovations in the politics of societal change; however, theoretical fragmentation persists. This paper…

Today Giuseppe Feola gave a research seminar titled ‘The Schismogenic Hypothesis: Conceptualizing Grassroots Sustainability Transformation as a Process of Conscious Self-Determination by Differentiation‘ at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Klosterneuburg (Austria), as part of a short visiting fellowship at this institution. Abstract: Theorizations of sustainability transformation have foregrounded the construction (making) of novel socioecological relations;…

Today Giuseppe Feola gave a research seminar titled ‘Unmaking Capitalism: per una trasformazione verso la sostenibilità. Il caso delle iniziative agro-alimentari comunitarie’ at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. posterfeola060422_0 Short interview (in Italian) here.

15 March 2022. This evening Giuseppe Feola gave a talk at the Interdisciplinary Night on Climate Change organized by the Study Association for Sociology Students at Tilburg University. His talk explored the roles of grassroots initiatives in sustainability transformation, including insights from the UNMAKING project.

On 1 November Giuseppe Feola participated in the show Planting Permission at Dublin Digital Radio, an indipendent online radio station and alternative media platform. In the 1-hourn long conversation with the host, Oisin Klinkenbergh, Giuseppe talked about transformation to sustainability and capitalism, degrowth and the circular economy, and the role of grassoots social movements in…

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…