__________________________________________________
Conference Announcement Theme: Decolonising Degrowth Subtitle: From Sustainability to Climate Justice Type: Transdisciplinary Conference Institution: Centre for Culture and Ecology, Durham University Location: Online Date: 24.–25.6.2021 __________________________________________________ In this two-days online conference, we aim to shed light on the entanglements of culture and ecology by zoning in on the relationship between degrowth and decolonisation. How may these perspectives benefit each other, and may culture act as a site of resistance if it is itself caught in the capitalist system? How does degrowth offer a corrective to notions of green transitions that do not challenge the logic of extraction at the heart of the ecological crisis? As part of a process of decolonising our minds, politics and culture, moving away from fossil fuels is not enough if this simply means extracting other resources to fuel our economies. These topics serve as productive entry point into adjacent struggles and their entwinements, traversing debates in anthropology, cultural studies, literary theory, and environmental humanities. Together, they do not only highlight the constitutive interaction between ecology and culture to grasp the role of capitalist production in mediating this relation; they also enquire into the intersections between race, gender and class. Conference Programme (via Zoom, timetable refers to GMT+1) Thursday 24 June 2021 13:00 Introductory Remarks 13:30 First panel Sarah Espinosa (University of Vienna): When Not Only Strong Sustainability but Also Strong Degrowth Is Needed George Sotiropoulos (Panteion University): ‘The Master’s Tools’: Thinking Climate Justice and Degrowth Beyond Fairness Alberto José Franco Barrera (University of Santiago de Compostela): Climate Justice and Sustainable Development: A Viable Relationship? 15:00 Keynote lecture Miriam Lang (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar): Degrowth, postdevelopment and buen vivir, or the need for a transformative South-North-South dialogue 16:30 Second panel Sunu Rose Joseph & Shashikantha Koudur (National Institute of Technology Karnataka): Development vis-à-vis Degrowth: Stories of Resistance, Struggle and Survival from the Western Ghats Ishtiaque Ahmed Levin (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Indigenising the Anthropocene: Relevance of Gandhi’s ‘Swaraj’ Leiyo Singo (University of Bayreuth, University of Dar es Salaam): Degrowth for the Global South? Towards Re-appropriation of Bioeconomy to Visibilise Pastoralists’ Futures in Tanzania Carlos Tornel (Durham University): Decolonising Degrowth: From a Dialogue of Knowledges to a Dialogue of Livings Friday 25 June 2021 13:30 Third panel Ruth Irwin (RMIT University): From Flabby Economics to Metabolic Wellbeing Jessica de Jesus de Pinho Pinhal (Technische Universität Berlin): The Epistemology of (De)growth: The Myth of ‘Scalability’ in Silicon Valley Edoardo Toffoletto (EHESS): Pharmacology of Growth and Imperialism: Between Geopolitics and General Economy Sophia Hatzisavvidou & Benoit Dillet (University of Bath): Decolonial Degrowth as Epimethean Politics 15:00 Keynote lecture Patricia E. Perkins (York University): Care, Humility, and Collective Futurity 16:30 Fourth panel Abigail Perez Aguilera (The New School): Beyond Human Relationality: A Decolonial Ecofeminist Approach to Degrowth Lorenzo Gineprini (University of Cologne): Rethinking Material Consumer Culture and Ecology through the Aesthetics of Waste Oscar Talbot (University of Amsterdam): Abolitionist Ecology—Rejecting the Green Gulag Alexandra Papademetriou (Artist and independent artistic researcher): The Degrowth Toolbox for Artistic Practices: Rethinking Creative and Exhibitionary Practices from a Degrowth Perspective 18:00 Conclusive Remarks Registration to the conference is free and open to anyone, to get the Zoom link, please email: Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal ([email protected]) Marco Pavanini ([email protected]) __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
