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…

Giuseppe Feola was interviewed on the sidelines of his keynote talk at the recent Transformations to Sustainability virtual workshop hosted by the International Science Council. The interview was conducted by Lizzie Sayer of the International Science Council and can be read here.

Giuseppe Feola was interviewed by the team of the NGO Action for Solidarity Environment Equality and Diversity (ASEED) on degrowth, its connection to food and nature, degrowth in relation to globalisation and its releance in times of Covid-19. The podcast can be accessed here.

28 May 2020. Giuseppe Feola gave a keynote talk at the International Science Council’s Transformations to Sustainability virtual Workshop today. Giuseppe’s talk titled ‘The politics of (un)making sustainability transformation beyond capitalism‘, used the case of Territorio Campesino Agroalimentario in Colombia to present current developments in the theorization of the unmaking of capitalism in grassroots agri-food…

Three memebers of the UNMAKING team presented at the 5th Network for Early career researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) Conference ‘Widening Sustainability Transitions’ on 7-8 May 2020. Giuseppe Feola gave a keynote talk titled ‘Why sustainability transition research cannot ignore capitalism‘, which discussed some of the ideas presented in this paper. Laura van Oers presented…

Laura van Oers, Giuseppe Feola and former UNMAKING researcher Olga Koretskaya are among the organizers of the Second Utrecht Degrowth Symposium, which will be held online on 15 May 2020.   During the event participants will discuss what a circular society can look like and how it can be achieved from the perspectives of practitioners…

Call for papers for the Session “Degrowth, rurality and agri-food systems” @7th International Degrowth Conference – Manchester (UK), September 1-5 2020   Session convenors: Dr Giuseppe Feola (g.feola@uu.nl), Julia Spanier (j.r.spanier@uu.nl), Jacob Smessaert (j.d.a.smessaert@uu.nl), and Leonie Guerrero Lara (l.guerrerolara@uu.nl), all at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University   So far, the degrowth scholarship…

Giuseppe Feola presented the paper Unmaking capitalism in transformation to sustainability: a politics of loss and sacrifice at the ‘Contesting Loss & Damage’ Workshop hosted by the Environmental Humanities Lab at KTH, Stockholm. Abstract The current social-ecological crisis is largely an outcome of the capitalist modern development project, which has been pursued through the production…

Giuseppe Feola and Olga Koretskaya discuss how we can enrich our understanding of disruptions of capitalism in a way that goes beyond the notion of ‘decolonization of the imaginary’. Liberating our minds from the imperative of endless economic growth and profit maximization is one of the key inspirational ideas of degrowth. Scholars and activists call…

Giuseppe Feola discusses the use of historical analogies to develop strategies for degrowth transformation. Degrowth scholars and activists often turn to past cases of social or socioecological transformation for inspiration to inform transformative action in the present. Yet, there has so far been insufficient awareness of the bias that comes with using any historical analogy….