International Conference on Degrowth in Malmö, Sweden
- “Dialogues of Turbulent Times” is the title of the conference on Degrowth being held in the Swedish city of Malmö from 21 to 25 August, organized by the Institute for Degrowth Research.
The Institute for Degrowth Research (Institutet För Nerväxtstudier in Swedish) brings together academics, students and entrepreneurs to heat up degrowth debates in the Nordic countries and around the world.
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Why the title “Dialogues of Turbulent Times”? The organizers argue that although the intertwined ecological, social and economic crisis has long been said by the movement for degrowth, it is appearing in everyone’s eyes right now: the proliferation of wars mainly in the Middle East, new studies that say that climate changes are accelerating, mass migrations... As if that were not enough, even in the West that seemed apparently more stable, dramatic changes are taking place with Brexit, the recent US elections, etc.
“That is why we say that we live in turbulent times, full of anguish, insecurity and fear. The other side of the coin, however, is that new forms of organization are proliferating, global solidarity and courage and that the potential for transformation has also increased in the way that degrowth defends, combining ecological sustainability, social justice and human progress. For this potential to materialize, global dialogues between different geographic regions and perspectives are needed. Both in the academic world and in the context of entrepreneurs, it is vital for the degrowth to organize a dialogue between schools of thought and different movements of transformation.”
These days the conference is showing different faces of the Malmön degrowth. In the program, on the one hand, the skeleton has been formed by academic conferences and round tables, but around them there are cinema, theater and concerts related to the subject, a fair of associations and entrepreneurs coming from all over the world, a world food and cooking exhibition, a stage of degrowth actions, etc.
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