Degrowth, Environmental Law, and the Contradictions of “Sustainable Development”

Until recently, contributions to degrowth debates have rarely come from legal scholars. This absence is not accidental. Law, after all, is a product of state deliberation.

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Degrowth and Feminist Just Transition for Inclusive Climate Action – degrowth.org

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New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP)

New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP) is an initiative led by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, to move the world away from destructive economi...

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Making Money Public: A Simpler, Fairer Foundation for a Democratic Economy

By Mario Martínez, Dinero Positivo

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Ecofeminism and the fight for justice

Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this final episode of Voices Across Waters, Roula speaks with Shereen Talaat. Rooted in the experiences of the SWANA region, Shereen unpacks ecofeminism as a struggle over power: who controls resources, who bears the cost, and whose lives are valued.  From debt and climate injustice to colonial legacies and global financial systems, she calls for a feminism that is unapologetically political, anti-colonial and grounded in lived realities. This conversation is a call to move beyond symbolic solidarity and into material action through accountability, shared struggle, and collective power.  It is also a reminder that narratives shape reality, and that reclaiming our stories is part of building alternatives. And through it all, one thing remains essential: hope, not as optimism, but as responsibility. Shereen Talaat (interviewee) is a feminist economist and filmmaker from Egypt, currently based in Marocco, who founded the MENAFEM Movement to lead regional advocacy for debt justice and feminist economic alternatives in the SWANA region. Roula Seghaier (interviewer) is a Tunisian interdisciplinary writer and organizer in migrant rights, labor justice and intersectional feminism. She is currently based in New York City and serves as the International Coordinator of the Women in Migration Network. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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Our Garden and the Growth Machine: The Fight to keep Raval for the Neighbourhood

By students and alumni of the R&Di Degrowth Master

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El nostre hort i la màquina de creixement: la lluita per mantenir el Raval per al barri

Per estudiants i alumni del Màster de Decreixement de R&Di

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Campanya l’Àgora es queda al Raval. Manifest i convocatòries

L’Àgora està en risc de desallotjament, programat pel 14 de maig. La SAREB i l’Ajuntament volen buidar l’Àgora de vida. L’Àgora Juan Andrés Benítez no és […]

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The Power of Transnational Solidarity

Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Lena interviews Roula about growing into feminism intuitively and understanding ecofeminism through lived realities of militarization, migration, and community memory. Roula reflects on how feminist consciousness often begins as a feeling, a quiet refusal of injustice, and expands into collective struggle. Together, they explore how militarized borders, forced migration, and extractive systems disproportionately shape women’s lives across the Mediterranean. From ancestral memory to transnational solidarity, this conversation reminds us that shifting narratives requires trust, vulnerability, and deep listening. In a world shaped by imperialism and capitalism, building relationships becomes an act of resistance, an act of hope. Roula Seghaier (interviewee) is a Tunisian interdisciplinary writer and organizer in migrant rights, labor justice and intersectional feminism. She is currently based in New York City and serves as the International Coordinator of the Women in Migration Network (WIMN). Lena Penšek (interviewer) is a Slovenian activist and feminist, currently based in Barcelona. She organizes in the intersection between climate and social justice, transnational organising, degrowth, solidarity and feminism. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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¿Cómo acabar con la economía fósil?

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Women are going to save the world, right mom?

Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode, Lena reflects on ecofeminism as both a lens and a lived practice one that connects patriarchy, capitalism, knowledge, and care. From her early political awakening to climate justice organizing in Slovenia and Barcelona, Lena traces how ecofeminism expanded her activism beyond single-issue struggles toward confronting broader systems of oppression. Together, the conversation explores autonomous women’s spaces, unpaid care labor, trust-building, and the radical power of storytelling. They reflect on the Mediterranean as both bridge and border: a sea of olive trees and tourism, but also of migration, climate crisis, and political fracture. At its heart, this episode is a call to transform hopelessness into collective action, to build spaces where care fuels resistance. Lena Penšek (interviewee) is a Slovenian activist and feminist, currently based in Barcelona. She organizes in the intersection between climate and social justice, transnational organising, degrowth, solidarity and feminism. Svetlana Balovska Đurković (interviewer) is an anthropologist and ecofeminist queer activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. Currently based in Croatia, she is a pioneer of the LGBTIQ+ movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, now dedicating her efforts to environmental justice. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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Deep Dive – Blue Degrowth – degrowth.org

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Activism of everyday life on an island

Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this intimate and reflective conversation, Jasmina speaks with Svetlana about ecofeminism as a lived, daily practice rooted in care, resilience, and intergenerational responsibility. From feminist awakening in childhood to LGBTQI+ activism and motherhood, Svetlana –reflects on how raising a daughter deepened her ecological consciousness. Now living on a Mediterranean island, she shares how ecofeminism manifests through community education, soil regeneration, rainwater collection, composting, and protecting the sea from plastic pollution. Together, they explore trust within activist spaces, the importance of preventing burnout, and why joy and love are not luxuries but necessary political forces. This episode reminds us that transformation begins close to the ground, in the air we breathe and the water we protect. Svetlana Balovska Đurković (interviewee) is an anthropologist and ecofeminist queer activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. Currently based in Croatia, she is a pioneer of the LGBTIQ+ movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, now dedicating her efforts to environmental justice. Jasmina Husanović (interviewer) is an activist, a scholar and a professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a founder of the EKOFEM BiH platform, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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Ecofeminism in the Western Balkans

Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode, Mariona speaks with Jasmina about ecofeminism emerging from the wounds of war, neoliberal transition, and extractivist violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Jasmina traces her journey from feminist peace activism during the 1990s war to co-founding a national ecofeminist platform connecting nearly 30 organizations across the country. Together, they unpack how environmental destruction, energy poverty, toxic waste, and so-called “green transition” projects turn the Western Balkans into a sacrifice zone for global capital. The conversation explores environmental democracy, radical municipal assemblies, the crisis of social reproduction, and the urgent need for sustained, face-to-face solidarity across the Mediterranean. At its heart, this episode is about rebuilding trust and defending society itself in a time of authoritarian capitalism. Jasmina Husanović (interviewee) is an activist, a scholar and a professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a founder of the EKOFEM BiH platform, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation. Mariona Bonsfills Clotet (interviewer) is an ecofeminist researcher, labour unionist and organiser from Catalonia. She is part of Research and Degrowth International, and an activist on ruralism and the transition toward an ecosocialist future. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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Ecofeminism as a project of economic democracy

Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode, Asmaa speaks with Mariona about ecofeminism as a project of economic democracy, collective emancipation, and degrowth transformation. From growing up on an organic farm in the Catalan Pyrenees to organizing within labor and political advocacy spaces, Mariona reflects on how feminism reshaped her understanding of value, labor, and whose voices count in history. They discuss reclaiming sidelined memories of women during the Spanish Civil War, challenging the myth of endless economic growth, and confronting the narrative that “there is no alternative” to capitalism. Together, they argue that feminism and ecology are not side issues but are central to restructuring economies around the maintenance of life.This conversation is a call for mass participation, transnational organizing, and the radical belief that everyone, regardless of background, is a legitimate political actor. Mariona Bonsfills Clotet (interviewee) is an ecofeminist researcher, labour unionist and organiser from Catalonia. She is part of Research and Degrowth International, and an activist on ruralism and the transition toward an ecosocialist future. Asmaa Elmalky (interviewer) is a feminist environmental lawyer from Egypt. She holds a Master’s degree in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo and is the head of the research department at the Egyptian Foundation for Environmental Rights.  This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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