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…

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 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,…

19 May 2021. Giuseppe Feola gave an invited talk titled ‘Geographical perspectives on grassroots innovations: diffusion and place-making‘ at the Geography of Sustainability Transition Webinar Series. The talk was followed by an intervention of the discussant, Prof. Tim Schwanen of the University of Oxford. The talk and Q&A can be viewed at this link. Abstract…

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.

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,…