A giant of radical post-development, post-growth thinking has left us. A collaborator of Ivan Illich, founder of Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca. RIP Gustavo Esteva, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis Here he is, interviewed in DarkMountainProject dark-mountain.net/dealing-with-o…

#CEE22 SS07. Diverse Economies and CEE: dialogues across scholarly traditions is an open session and organised by Ottavia Cima Universität Bern, lilli and Tom Smith. View more information: regionalstudies.org/news/2022-rsa-…

📃 New on the blog! Tom Smith reviews two books, 'Four Thousand Weeks' and 'Breaking Things at Work,' which deal with the crucial topic of time and work in society. What do you think—is now the time to start lying flat? 🐌 Read it here: tinyurl.com/yxha3696 #degrowth

Currently there is no consistent plan where the #automotive industry should head in future. In our #JustTransition Conference we discuss how the European #automotiveindustry can become part of a #sustainable future. #EU4JT #Mobility Register now on: buff.ly/3JbevL5

RESHORE #1 – Interview with Alice Holloway from the London Urban Textile Commons - ⁦Tom Smith⁩ re-shore.eu/2022/01/12/res…

📢 We invite our PhDs and early career researchers (ECR) to join this incredible 2023 Summer/Winter School "Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities". 🗓️ Date: 20 - 29 June 2023. ➡️ bit.ly/3Uzt1T6

Outstanding example of the small-scale industrialism made possible by a renewable source of compressed air. Worth the 2 min to watch

Beautiful speech by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about

noemamag.com/degrowth-in-ja… "Like Illich, Saito warns against the illusion that humans can escape the limits of our condition through a technological fix that somehow accommodates both “sustainability” and “development.”"

This cartoon is a wonderful insight into the life and history of Low Tech Magazine. lowtechmagazine solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/06/low-te…

A schematic of how Spanish cooperatives coordinated with one another during the Spanish Civil War. You don't need the free market, corporations, or state planning to run an economy.

Submissions are now open for our 25th issue, a book about land rights (and wrongs) and reconnection with the Earth. From wild campers on Dartmoor and modern-day Diggers to peasant and indigenous struggles around the world – we'd love to hear from you! dark-mountain.net/submissions-ca…

Really enjoyed this talk by @g_kallis on Southern thought, Degrowth and Mediterranean prosperity from the Beyond Growth conference youtube.com/watch?v=YDq91Z…

OPEN ACCESS: My new paper is out 'Mapping complexity in deglobalisation: A typology of economic localisms from ‘hyper-localism’ to ‘strategic autonomy’' in Local Economy Sage Journals journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

"If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism..it resembles..medieval feudalism..the tendency to create endless hierarchies of lords, vassals, and retainers"

Some thoughts on that recent piece about Saito and 'degrowth communism' by Matt Huber and Leigh Phillips 🇨🇦 in Jacobin . I'm not so keen on putting our faith in asteroid mining and human domination, but maybe that's just me... patreon.com/posts/technolo…