Julia Spanier presented the paper Nurturing the post-growth city: Bringing the rural back in at the 4th International Conference of IGU commission AGLE: Thinking Rural-Urban Interactions Through Food and Land Use Issues, held in Montpellier (online). Abstract This paper proposes a post-growth approach to urban sustainability planning. Acknowledging the linkage between capitalism’s environmental destructiveness and…

Today Giuseppe Feola gave a research seminar at the CreaTures project. He talked about the research traditions that informed the research field of transformation to sustainability (as discussed in Feola, 2015), and about ongoing research on this topic as part of the UNMAKING programme. The webpage of this event is available here.

7 October 2020 The Geosciences Honours College organized the Geohouse: Bottom-up and top-down approaches to sustainability: strengths and weaknesses Dr. Giuseppe Feola and Dr. Rakhyun Kim debated the strengths and weaknesses of bottom-up and top-down approaches to sustainability. How can we achieve a sustainable society?   Dr. Giuseppe Feola, Associate professor of Social Change for Sustainability,…

The conference session “Unmaking the capitalist production of nature: exploring processes of (de)construction”, explored the different insights that political ecology can offer on the deconstruction of capitalist natures and the emergence of new, peri- or post-capitalist relations and practices. Together with Elisa Schramm (University of Oxford), Pieta Hyvärinen (Tampere University), Ian Florin (University of Geneva)…

04 September 2020. Giuseppe Feola gave a talk today at the Alternative Visions – Festival of Humans, Artworks and Ideas held at Stroom in Den Haag. Giuseppe’s talk on ‘Degrowth and degrowth transition‘ was part of an exciting panel on new economic visions: Is there an alternative to the capitalist economy as we know it?…

Laura van Oers, Guilherme Raj, and Giuseppe Feola presented at the 11th International Sustainability Transition Conference on 18-21 August. Laura van Oers‘s presented the paper ‘Exnovation for sustainability transitions: broadening an emerging research field with insights from political economy’ in a session on destabilization and decline in sustainability transitions. This paper advances sustainability transition scholarship…

Giuseppe Feola was interviewed on the sidelines of his keynote talk at the recent Transformations to Sustainability virtual workshop hosted by the International Science Council. The interview was conducted by Lizzie Sayer of the International Science Council and can be read here.

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…