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…

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…

30 August 2019. Giuseppe Feola presented the paper De-growth as deliberate and generative ‘space making’ for post-capitalist alternatives at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference in London, United Kingdom. The paper is forthcoming as a full journal article in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

28 August 2019. Olga Koretskaya presented the poster: A framework for reading economic diversity in food networks and its application to community supported agriculture at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference in London, United Kingdom. The poster, which was co-authored by Giuseppe Feola, proposes a framework that expands our understanding of economic diversity in…

21 August 2019. Giuseppe Feola presented the paper Un-making the world in struggles for socioecological transformation at the 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Manchester, United Kingdom. The paper built on the recently published paper Capitalism in sustainability transitions research: Time for a critical turn?and on a forthcoming article in ACME: An International Journal for…

19 June 2019. Giuseppe Feola presented the paper: Polyhedric degrowth: On the prospect of a degrowth transformation at the 13th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics in Turku, Finland. Abstract Degrowth proposes a project of radical socioecological transformation. Yet, the degrowth scholarship has overall under-researched the socio-political conditions for a degrowth transformation. This…

06 February 2019. Giuseppe Feola presented the paper: Breaking out! Five propositions on the deliberate unmaking of unsustainable socioecological systems at the Leverage Points 2019 conference in Lüneburg, Germany. Abstract Societal sustainability transformations imply a disruption of modern, capitalist socioecological relations that inform destructive modes of interaction with the natural environment. Radical civil society initiatives may hold…