On Friday, April 9th, Laura van Oers presented the paper ‘Sustainability transitions as processes of unlearning’at the sixt annual conference of the Netowrk of PhD students and Early Career Researchers on Sustainability Transitions – NEST (held online).   Abstract Sustainability transitions involve multiple, deep changes of practices and beliefs that dominate current ways of being…

Giuseppe Feola gave an invited talk at the brownbag seminar of the Technology, Innovation & Society group at Technical University Eindhoven. The talk, titled A degrowth transformation? The unmaking of capitalism in Territorio Campesino Agroalimentario Nariño and Cauca (Colombia) introduced degrowth and presented some findings on ongoing research in the resaerch programme UNMAKING. Abstract. With ever…

Julia Spanier presented the paper Nurturing the post-growth city: Bringing the rural back in at the 4th International Conference of IGU commission AGLE: Thinking Rural-Urban Interactions Through Food and Land Use Issues, held in Montpellier (online). Abstract This paper proposes a post-growth approach to urban sustainability planning. Acknowledging the linkage between capitalism’s environmental destructiveness and…

Today Giuseppe Feola gave a research seminar at the CreaTures project. He talked about the research traditions that informed the research field of transformation to sustainability (as discussed in Feola, 2015), and about ongoing research on this topic as part of the UNMAKING programme. The webpage of this event is available here.

Olga Koretskaya and Giuseppe Feola published a paper titled A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems in the Journal of Rural Studies. The paper is available open access here. Abstract Calls for agri-food system sustainability transitions abound and increasingly draw attention to the need for addressing deeply ingrained social, cultural and economic…

7 October 2020 The Geosciences Honours College organized the Geohouse: Bottom-up and top-down approaches to sustainability: strengths and weaknesses Dr. Giuseppe Feola and Dr. Rakhyun Kim debated the strengths and weaknesses of bottom-up and top-down approaches to sustainability. How can we achieve a sustainable society?   Dr. Giuseppe Feola, Associate professor of Social Change for Sustainability,…

As part of the collection ‘The Open Society and its Future‘ (free download here), Giuseppe Feola published a chapter titled ‘Open Societies and Ecological Challenges: Transformation to Sustainability?‘. In this chapter, Giuseppe Feola argues that the threat posed by ecological  challenges, such as climate change, exposes the dysfunctions of our common socioeconomic perspective of open…

The conference session “Unmaking the capitalist production of nature: exploring processes of (de)construction”, explored the different insights that political ecology can offer on the deconstruction of capitalist natures and the emergence of new, peri- or post-capitalist relations and practices. Together with Elisa Schramm (University of Oxford), Pieta Hyvärinen (Tampere University), Ian Florin (University of Geneva)…

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. Giuseppe’s talk on ‘Degrowth and degrowth transition‘ was part of an exciting panel on new economic visions: Is there an alternative to the capitalist economy as we know it?…

Laura van Oers, Guilherme Raj, and Giuseppe Feola presented at the 11th International Sustainability Transition Conference on 18-21 August. Laura van Oers‘s presented the paper ‘Exnovation for sustainability transitions: broadening an emerging research field with insights from political economy’ in a session on destabilization and decline in sustainability transitions. This paper advances sustainability transition scholarship…