In this Development Research Seminar, activist scholar Anitra Nelson will discuss editing her forthcoming book, Routledge Handbook of Degrowth, and talk about degrowth as a movement and a field of studies.
- Speaker
- Date
- Wednesday 18 Jun 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 3.39
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Some of the questions to be addressed are:
- What political tensions exist within degrowth between advocates of grassroots and top down strategies?
- How do degrowth characteristics such as convivial technology, frugal abundance and commoning play out in practice?
- How can degrowth address Global North and Global South challenges?
- Why is ecofeminism important in degrowth?
- Why and how is degrowth anti-economicism and decolonizing in its thrust?
With 35 chapters on various topics and themes, the handbook shares the voices of over 55 contributors.
About the speaker
Anitra Nelson is an activist scholar and Honorary Principal Fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne (Australia).
Among numerous degrowth publications, she is co-editor of Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities (2018) and Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices (2021) collections, and co-author, with Vincent Leigey, of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020).