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Degrowth & Its Critics #7 – Matthew T. Huber
Matthew T. Huber is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. His book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, advocates a working class approach that might mobilize a majority of American citizens. For Huber, degrowth pitches … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #6 — Timothée Parrique
Timothée Parrique is an economist and a researcher at the University of Lausanne. His book, Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth, provides an exhaustive account of degrowth economics — its origins, history, policy proposals, influence, common critiques, and … Continue reading
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Degrowth & Its Critics #5 – Schmelzer, Vetter, and Vansintjan
Matthias Schmelzer is Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation at the University of Flensburg. Andrea Vetter teaches transformation design at Braunschweig University of Art. And Aaron Vansintjan is a writer based in Montreal. Their book, The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to … Continue reading
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Degrowth & Its Critics #4 – Kōhei Saitō
Kōhei Saitō is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. His book, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, was published in 2020, with the first English edition appearing in 2024. In it, Saitō draws primarily on Marx’s later work … Continue reading
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Degrowth & Its Critics #3 – Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel is Professor of Political Science & Public Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His 2020 book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, provides a succinct history of capitalism, an account of its impacts on … Continue reading
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Degrowth & Its Critics #2 – Jason W. Moore et al
Jason W. Moore is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton, where he coordinates the World-Ecology Research Collective. His 2016 volume, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, features essays on how the climate crisis ought to be … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #1 – McNeill and Engelke
John R. McNeill is Distinguished University Professor of History and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Peter Engelke is Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Snowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In their 2014 book, The Great Acceleration: A History of … Continue reading
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The Enchantments of Trumpism
Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University. His book, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, argues that capitalist imperatives have superseded those of Christianity over time. The following was presented as part … Continue reading
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The Devil You Think You Know
Whitney Phillips is Associate Professor of Information Politics and Media Ethics at the University of Oregon, and Mark Brockway is Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. Their book, The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelical, Liberal, Trump
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On Growing (and Degrowing) Problems
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Imagined Communities
Edward Bellamy was an American socialist author, activist, and journalist who wrote six novels in the second half of the nineteenth century. His most famous work, Looking Backward 2000-1887, inspired the formation of “Nationalist Clubs” throughout the country, each dedicated … Continue reading
Paradise & Pragmatism
Chris Jennings is an historian and writer living in Northern California. His book, Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, documents the experiences of five distinct and but related attempts at American communism around the middle of the nineteenth century. … Continue reading
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End Time and Time Again
Dorian Lynskey is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs from Billie Holiday to Green Day and The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984. His latest, Everything Must Go: The Stories We … Continue reading
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