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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=SV link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hej,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>På planeringsmötet för Environmental Humanities Collaboratory förra veckan bestämde vi att nästa veckas seminarium, 3 mars 13-15, skulle handla om omväxt/nedväxt (eller hur man nu ska översätta det franska 'decroissance', kanske frivillig enkelhet också är en möjlighet). Jag tog på mig ansvaret att plocka fram en text och jag tycker att nedanstående bäst fyller syftet att vara en introduktion till konceptet och lite av en ingång till hela diskussionen. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Demaria, F., Schneider, F., Sekulova, F., Martinez-Alier, J. (2013). <span lang=EN-US>What is degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement, <i>Environmental Values</i>, Volume 22, Number 2, April, pp. 191-215(25)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Degrowth is the literal translation of 'decroissance', a French word meaning reduction. Launched by activists in 2001 as a challenge to growth, it became a missile word that sparks a contentious debate on the diagnosis and prognosis of our society. 'Degrowth' became an interpretative frame for a new (and old) social movement where numerous streams of critical ideas and political actions converge. It is an attempt to re-politicise debates about desired socio-environmental futures and an example of an activist-led science now consolidating into a concept in academic literature. This article discusses the definition, origins, evolution, practices and construction of degrowth. The main objective is to explain degrowth's multiple sources and strategies in order to improve its basic definition and avoid reductionist criticisms and misconceptions. To this end, the article presents degrowth's main intellectual sources as well as its diverse strategies (oppositional activism, building of alternatives and political proposals) and actors (practitioners, activists and scientists). Finally, the article argues that the movement's diversity does not detract from the existence of a common path.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Då jag, lika lite som er, är inlästa på ämnet ser jag fram emot att ses och prata!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lev väl,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>New book published by Routledge <i>Discourses of Global Climate Change</i>: </span><a href="http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781138781313/"><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue'>http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781138781313/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Latest article: ”A green fatwâ? Climate change as a threat to the masculinity of industrial modernity”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18902138.2014.908627#.U_SMC_lv5Cc"><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue'>http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18902138.2014.908627#.U_SMC_lv5Cc</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Institutionen för idé och samhällsstudier<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.idesam.umu.se/english/about/staff/history-of-science-and-ideas/martin-hultman/?languageId=1"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.idesam.umu.se/english/about/staff/history-of-science-and-ideas/martin-hultman/?languageId=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>USSTE, Umeå Studies in Science, Technology and Environment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.org.umu.se/usste/english/"><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue'>http://www.org.umu.se/usste/english/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Umeå University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SE-907 81 Umeå<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SWEDEN<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:SV'>Mobile: +46-(0)736-394-696<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>