The second of the #NoBackToNormal #degrowthtalks series, with Mladen Domazet, Miriam Lang, Brototi Roy. Bios and links for further reading below! More to follow, make sure to check back again. Brototi Roy is a PhD student at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she is a part of the Environmental Justice Atlas team. Her research focuses on environmental justice movements in India, using political ecology and ecological economics framework. She co-founded the Degrowth India Initiative in 2015, with an aim provide facilitate discussions and bring together people looking for alternatives for socio-ecological justice and equity in India. She is a member of Research&Degrowth, the Barcelona based association dedicated to research and activism on degrowth, as well as a part of the support group of the international degrowth conferences. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics.
Miriam Lang works as an associate professor for Environmental and Sustainability Studies at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. Her research focuses on development critique, systemic alternatives and the territorial implementation of Buen Vivir. She holds a PhD in sociology and a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies from the Free University in Berlin. She combines decolonial and feminist perspectives with political economy and political ecology. She collaborates with the Latin American Permanent Working Group on Alternatives to Development and with internationalist, feminist, ecologist and anti-racist social movements. The book “Beyond Development – Alternative visions from Latin America” which she co-edited (2013) has been translated into nine languages.
Mladen Domazet is head of research at the Institute for Political Ecology. He’s taught at Zagreb and Sarajevo universities, with guest lectures and supervisions in Croatia, Europe and US. Dr Domazet is currently leading the research department at IPE with primary focus on the doughnut models of sustainability and international degrowth research perspective. His research interest currently focuses on theories of scientific explanation, degrowth-compatible explanatory frameworks of social metabolism, and social attitudes relevant to sustainability. He’s been a researcher or principal investigator on a number of research projects and is a contributing author to the next IPCC report.
Brototi Roy
Degrowth India Initiative
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito
RESOURCES
Paper on Decolonising Degrowth:
Hanaček, Ksenija, Brototi Roy, Sofia Avila, and Giorgos Kallis. "Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins." Ecological Economics 169 (2020): 106495.
Domazet, M., Rilović, A., Ančić, B., Andersen, B., Richardson, L., Brajdić Vuković, M., Pungas, L., & Medak, T. (2019). Mental Models of Sustainability: The Degrowth Doughnut Model. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences (pp. 1–11).
Domazet, M. 2019. “Degrowth-compatible Common Senses in Croatia”. Sudosteuropa Mitteilungen. 59: 5-6; 158-168
Ančić, B.; Domazet, M.; Župarić-Iljić, D. 2019. “‘For my health and for my friends’: Exploring motivation, sharing, environmentalism, resilience and class structure of food self-provisioning”. Geoforum. 106: 68-77.
Domazet, M.; Ančić, B.2019. “Complementarity between the EJ movement and degrowth on the European semiperiphery: An empirical study”. Ecological economics. 157: 120-128
Domazet, M. (ed.). 2017. Ecology and Justice: Contributions from the margins. Zagreb: Institute for Political Ecology
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