Shrink©: Deprogram/Despecialize by Federico Soliano, Dolores Palacios

“…At Encoger© movement, we aim at building a new architectural theory associated with ideas of economic degrowth. Based on verbs that work as theoretical vectors – densify, de-normalize, unfinish, seclude, implode, de-flesh, deflate, among others – we seek to define a discipline opposed to that of the Modernist movement. …”
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The growth paradigm and the failures of the alternatives within the system: notes towards a dystopian Marxism by Rodrigo Rafael Gómez Garza

“…Finally, it discusses the failure of some of the alternatives to the Growth Paradigm: Sustainable Development, Green Growth, Circular Economy and Degrowth. …”
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Environmentalism and criticism of mechanical modernity by Dominique Bourg

“…The points of disagreement that led to the emergence of ecological thinking in the 19th century are still very much present, reflected in contemporary opposition between the “solutions” offered by green growth and eco-modernism and the partisans of degrowth in terms of material wealth. The outcome of the transition currently underway, commensurate with the obstacles it seeks to overcome, is profoundly uncertain. …”
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METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN THE EVALUATION OF ROMANIAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT by Silvia Mazare

“…The rural economy is a component part of the concept of local economy, at the present moment the need for sustainable development starts from the creation of the seeds of degrowth for the local economy, as a generator of well-being. …”
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Feminism and Finitude by Alessandra Mularoni

“…In so doing, I argue for an alliance between xenofeminism and ecofeminist political economy to engage a discursive redirection toward degrowth and dealienation. I then build on Rosi Braidotti’s (2013) posthuman theory of death to suggest an uncomfortable biopolitical expansion: a biopolitics for the Anthropocene should not only seek an equal right to live, but also an equal predisposition to death. …”
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Etnografia del fare Note culturali su un contesto urbano dell’Italia centrale by Lia Giancristofaro

“…The essay theorises a consistent cultural elasticity in the public housing area, in which the creativity in tackling the economic degrowth would be expressed by recycling some local themes of rural folklore, such as the ability to maintain the spaces and to prepare many kind of foods for immediate consumption or for storage. …”
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Etnografia del fare Note culturali su un contesto urbano dell’Italia centrale by Lia Giancristofaro

“…The essay theorises a consistent cultural elasticity in the public housing area, in which the creativity in tackling the economic degrowth would be expressed by recycling some local themes of rural folklore, such as the ability to maintain the spaces and to prepare many kind of foods for immediate consumption or for storage. …”
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Post-growth economics: a must for planetary health justice by Winne Fleur van Woerden, Remco van de Pas, Joel Curtain

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Decrecer pero, ¿dónde? ¿Decrecimiento para quién? by Deepak Lamba-Nieves

“…El manifiesto propuesto en The Case for Degrowth reconoce el desafío de pedir a distintas poblaciones que reduzcan su crecimiento económico y bienestar. …”
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The Flexible Institutionalization Process of Puma Currency in Seville, Spain by Georgina M. Gómez, Cristina Medina Prado

“…The study focuses on the PUMA complementary currency in Seville, which was the brainchild of a neighbourhood association, a degrowth group and the local community. Puma functioned as a mutual credit system with a passbook and later as a digital wallet. …”
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The appeal of the circular economy revisited: on track for transformative change or enabler of moral licensing? by Hans Eickhoff

“…Thus, in the public discourse, its narrative outperforms other lines of arguments when it comes to keeping radical critics of destructive extractivism and the growth imperative in check and averting discussion of degrowth, post-growth, or other systemic alternatives by larger segments of the population and government bodies. …”
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Designing a beautifully poor public: postgrowth community in Italy and Japan by Robin M. LeBlanc

“…Decades of low to zero growth and demographic decline in Italy and Japan are forcing community stakeholders from elected officials to urban planners to confront the question of how to maintain good communities even where material affluence is irrevocably diminished. Keywords: degrowth, public space, urban planning, architecture, political ecology…”
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Perceiving the Anthropocene as a Public Health Risk via Visual Culture by Daniel A. Finch-Race

“…How best to go about galvanizing socially just degrowth in the face of barriers to individual commitment that range from a sense of powerlessness to disinterest in futures-thinking? …”
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Tackling Overproduction? The Limits of Multistakeholder Initiatives in Fashion by Alice Payne, Zoe Mellick

“…Drawing upon principles of degrowth, we propose that a scenario in which an MSI construct could have transformative power is one in which overproduction is explicitly addressed.…”
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INDICATORS OF GREEN GROWTH AS SUPPORTERS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH - AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS AT THE EU27 LEVEL by AILINCĂ ALINA GEORGETA

“…Green growth is sometimes seen ambivalently, either as requiring economic degrowth, a stingy administration of resources and consumption, or as supporting a robust economic growth but with a dramatic paradigm shift (sustainability, circularity, regenerability etc). …”
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Complexity, Fragmentation, Structural Unemployment and Labor Law Crisis: How to Diagnose and Overcome Inequalities and Think a Fair Brazil, from a New Society of Work by Isabele Bandeira de Moraes Dangelo, Everaldo Gaspar Lopes de Andrade

“…The developmental economic theory part and to the theory of degrowth, and in this direction, it reaches the three principles of labor law. …”
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Réinterroger le capitalisme contemporain : vers une économie politique de l’écologie by Louison Cahen-Fourot, Gaël Plumecocq, Franck-Dominique Vivien

“…Whether we are talking about changes in accounting that consider the environmental impacts of companies, the institutions that frame social relations around the management of an invasive species in Bulgaria, the absence of degrowth scenario simulation in the modelling of the 5th IPCC report, or the ways in which the bioeconomy shapes different collective imaginaries.…”
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Le développement durable face à sa crise : un concept menacé, sous-exploité ou dépassé ? by Jacques Theys

“…The concept of sustainable development seems progressively disappearing from the public and political debates, and partly from the scientific forefront – replaced by more “up to date” terms such as “resilience”, “transition”, “degrowth”, ”green economy”, “smart growth”…. That is, at least, the situation in France, which is not yet so much involved in the recent development of the “sustainability sciences” ongoing in the anglo-saxon countries. …”
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Radical transformation or technological intervention? Two paths for universal basic income by Fouksman, E, Klein, E

“…Universal basic income – the idea of guaranteeing a minimum level of income for all – has a long history of been framed as a radical proposal, a way to address issues ranging from wealth distribution and economic justice through to degrowth and gender equality. Yet an increasing number of proponents, especially in international development and public policy circles, see basic income as an efficient technological solution to poverty and economic insecurity. …”

The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures by Samuel Alexander, Joshua Floyd

“…The policy can facilitate controlled reduction of socio-political complexity via processes of ‘voluntary simplification’ (the result being ‘degrowth’ or controlled contraction at the scale of the physical economy).…”
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