The Local Organizing Committee and the Scientific Advisory
Committee have defined these thematic tracks for the conference:
1. Socially just futures
Social, intergenerational, and environmental
justice
Income and wealth
inequality: strategies for redistribution and sharing
Addressing colonial
and imperial modes of living
Human rights and
degrowth: tensions and convergences
Ecologically unequal
exchange and ecological debt
Degrowth perspectives
on migration, displacement, and borders
Addressing social class
in ecological economics and degrowth
2. Postgrowth institutions, policy, and
governance
Welfare
states, fiscal policy, and taxation
The role of banks, finance,
money, and investments
Citizen
assemblies, economic democracy, and technological democracy
Businesses
and organizations beyond growth
Geopolitics,
(de)militarization, (de)nuclearization, and peace building
Global
alliances for just and sustainable futures
Governing
the commons
International
governance in times of genocide and ecocide
The
role of markets, law, and states in postgrowth societies
3. Systems change: Transitions, transformations,
and rupture
Degrowth imaginaries, concrete utopias, and
prefigurative politics
Political
polarization and backlash against green agendas
The
politics of transformation in a capitalist and militarised world
Social movements, youth
protests, climate activism, and defence of land
Post-capitalist
experiments and radical environmental movements
Arts, artistic
ecologies, and eco-social practice
Direct
action for transformative change: Tactics, strategies, ethics
Innovating teaching,
learning, and knowledge sharing
The spatial
dimension: planning and human settlements
4. Production, consumption, and sufficiency
Social-ecological
provisioning systems
Needs,
satisfiers, and sufficiency
Advertising, social media,
and hyperconsumption
Ethics
of consumption, degrowth, and human fulfilment
Transportation
systems and travelling choices
Communicating
degrowth in productivist and consumerist cultures
Indicators
of wealth, health, and wellbeing
Decent
living standards within planetary boundaries
Uncommodified
provisioning, self-sufficiency, and gift economies
5. Technology, work, and care
Convivial technology: values, design,
and practices
Artificial
intelligence, digitalization, and automatization
Disentangling
technology, war industry, and genocide
The future of work, working time, labour, and care
Class
perspectives on work
Non-monetary
economies from unpaid labour to in-kind social provisioning
Considering demographic
change and age
Organizing labour for
and under degrowth trajectories
6. Global food justice in postgrowth scenarios
Disentangling
power dynamics in industrial agriculture
Agroecology
and alternative systems for food justice
Land and
agrarian transformations
Relations
to place, livelihood, and provisioning
Blue
degrowth and the future of fishing communities
Urban food
security, edible cities, and food deserts
7. Intersectionality in growth and degrowth
Ecofeminisms, feminist economics, and decolonial feminisms
Masculinities in
growth and degrowth
Disabilities – rights
and agency
Queer perspectives
Gender (in)equality and degrowth
– opportunities and risks
Racialization,
anti-racist strategies, and decolonisation
Whiteness in
postgrowth and degrowth
Class and poverty
in intersectionality
8. The diverse values of nature: rights, distribution, and ethics
Ecological justice,
rights of nature, and human–nature relations
Social metabolism and
environmental conflicts
Integrating
plural values
of nature in decision-making
Biodiversity and
ecosystem services / nature’s contributions to people
Indigenous and local
knowledge in protecting and restoring values of nature
Financialization and commodification of nature
9. Climate change, fossil power, and energy transitions
Frameworks and strategies for climate justice
Climate offsets and greenwashing
Decarbonising fossil fuel economies
Contested energy transitions
Degrowth scenarios in global climate policy
Material footprints of the green shift
10. Foundations and frontiers in ecological economics
Ecological economics:
philosophy of science, ontology, and epistemology
Decolonizing research
and methodologies
Knowledge, power, and
action
Limits and
scarcity in ecological economics and degrowth – ontological divergencies
Ecological
macroeconomics: scrutinizing theory, models, and indicators
Theoretical foundations
for degrowth and postgrowth
Ecoliteracy and
systems views
Alternative
approaches to wellbeing, such as swaraj, buen vivir, vivir sabroso,
degrowth, ubuntu, kyosei, eudamonia and sumak kawsay
Doughnut economics, circular economics, and well-being
economy: experiences and controversies