Jason Hickel’s intervention on strategies for achieving desirable futures argues for degrowth advocates to decamp to democratic socialism. He minimises degrowth to policies re-orienting production to satisfying people’s needs within Earth’s limits, and trivialises horizontalism as tiny prefigurative activities incapable of stopping capitalism dead in its tracks. Our horizontalism represents...
What power can minority parties have in partitocratic political systems? Manuel Casal Lodeiro joins the ongoing strategy debate and argues for the significance of radical degrowthist parties.
By: Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis contests recent interventions which lament the current direction of degrowth and its strategies, arguing instead for a community of pluralist yet tense alliances.
13 – 14 Apr 2026
The conference will take place online and in-person at the Colorado State University, on April 13-14, 2026. The topic is "Where Do We Grow From Here? Environmental Justice and the Politics of Hope in the Planetary Age"
