On 28 November 2024 Julia Spanier successfully defended her PhD thesis titled ‘A rural(–urban) perspective: Agricultural grassroots initiatives and the making of post-capitalist futures’. Abstract. This PhD thesis explores the role of agricultural grassroots initiatives (AGIs) in societal transformations away from the capitalist status quo. AGIs are bottom-up, small-scale alternatives that exist within (and in…

On 22 June Giuseppe Feola presented the talk ‘Sustainability transformation from the bottom up: grassroots initiatives in and beyond capitalism’ at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. The seminar was part of the series organized by the research group SHIFT: Environment, Territory and Society.