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Die Forderung nach buen vivir geht auf dekoloniale Kämpfe in Bolivien und Ecuador zurück. Gleichzeitig prägen transnationale Prozesse die Entwicklung des Konzepts und tragen zu seiner Wirkmächtigkeit bei. Im Kontext dieser vielschichtigen Wechselbeziehungen verfolgen die Protagonist_innen...
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The concept and mainstream approaches of development cooperation (DC) have been criticised since the early beginning of their existence. Post-development (PD) scholars have been criticising international DC since 1990 for both its Western perspective and the lack of reflection on asymmetrical...
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While the current international and transnational anti-corruption campaign (ITACC) has been successful in calling worldwide attention to the topic, several critics have argued that the term corruption and the concepts that underlie it are ambiguous and that corruption and anti-corruption have...
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Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly. Given uncertainty about future growth rates and increasing evidence that economic growth is a driver of social and environmental crises, these growth dependencies pose serious societal challenges. In recent...
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As a research field, social movement and political project, degrowth is a multifaceted phenomenon. It brings together a … state. Yet no comprehensive theory of degrowth transformations has so far been developed. Deep Transformations fills this … gap. It develops a theory of degrowth transformations drawing on insights from multiple fields of knowledge, such as …
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This paper examines the implications of the argument that sustainable businesses should see profit as a means, not an end. It develops a heuristic conceptual framework that identifies two main ways in which a business can treat profit as an end: first, through voluntary objectives; and secondly,...
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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease that was first recognized in China in late 2019. Among the primary effects caused by the pandemic, there was the dissemination of health preventive measures such as physical distancing, travel...
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economics and the academic degrowth discourse on the topic of global inequalities. Since a systematic literature review of the … current degrowth discourse shows that the level of such collaboration is limited, the second goal of the paper is to outline … avenues through which institutionalist scholars could contribute to the current academic degrowth discourse. These include the …
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Degrowth as responses to planetary overshoot. It concludes that neither Green Growth nor Degrowth will stop overshoot. Moreover …, Degrowth may worsen the environment, is a costly method to reduce carbon emissions, is a form of austerity for the working … class, is redundant, and is politically infeasible. Finally, a third approach beyond Green Growth and Degrowth is outlined …
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This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of … workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the …? What experiences and practices before and after these transformations can potential degrowth societies build on? To what …
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