Politics of Degrowth workshop 14 June
Jan E Selby
The Politics of Degrowth
Date and time: 14 June 2023, 13.00-17.00 BST
Format: Hybrid workshop, in person in Seminar Room 1, the Wave, University of Sheffield and online via booking page
Reservation required by Eventbrite: here
Is ‘degrowth’ the answer to planetary environmental crisis? This half-day workshop will consider this question, focusing on the politics of degrowth and other alternatives to prevailing neoliberal growth orthodoxies. Bringing together leading international scholars and scholar-activists of degrowth, post-growth and green new deal thinking, the workshop will explore both questions of principle (e.g. does degrowth, or perhaps post-growth, make sense as an ideal?) and questions of political practice (e.g. through what political strategies might degrowth, or post-growth, be pursued?).
The event should be of interest to anyone interested in learning and thinking more about degrowth and associated ideas. It is intended for specialists and non-experts alike; students are more than welcome. It will be organised around two roundtable sessions, with short presentations that leave plenty of time for Q&A and discussion. Lunch and refreshments will be available for those attending in person.
The event in organised by the Environmental Politics Research Group, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield.
1.00-1.30: lunch
Welcome: 1.30: Jan Selby, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
Session 1: 1.35-3.00: Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth
Speakers:
Milena Buchs, Professor of Sustainable Welfare, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh Environment Impact Group, Pune
Michael Jacobs, Professor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield
Chair: Jan Selby, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
3.00-3.30: refreshments
Session 2, 3.30-5.00: Degrowth and Political Strategy
Speakers:
Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network
Nathan Barlow, Degrowth Vienna
Chair: Rosaleen Duffy, Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
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Latest publications:
Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge, 2022; with Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann) here
‘International/inter-carbonic relations’, International Relations (2022) here