(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism by: Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, Danika Moore. Published in: Global Environmental Change 69, 102290   Theorizations of sustainability transformation have foregrounded the construction (making) of novel socioecological relations; however, they generally have obscured processes of deliberate deconstruction (unmaking) of existing, unsustainable ones. Amidst ever more compelling evidence of the…

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…

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…

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….

“Green growth is doomed to fail, since it refuses to acknowledge the root cause of climate change: continued economic growth which proves impossible to dematerialize”. This is an excerpt from the short essay PhD researcher Jacob Smessaert submitted to The Economist when they asked young citizens of the world “What fundamental economic and political change,…

We have published the second publication of this research programme! Feola., G. 2019. Degrowth and the unmaking of capitalism: beyond ‘decolonization of the imaginary’ ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 18(4): 977-997. [open access] Degrowth is incompatible with modern capitalist socioecological configurations, and in fact requires their ‘unmaking’ to open space for post-growth and post-capitalist alternatives. The…

We have published the first publication of this research programme! Feola, G. (In press). Capitalism in sustainability transitions research: Time for a critical turn? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2019.02.005 [open access] This article argues that sustainability transition research (STR) has failed to engage in any significant analyses or critiques of capitalism. This article argues that capitalism is not…