During the pandemic, economic, social and labour market impacts first hit younger women, particularly mothers working more casualised sectors and facing a sharp increase of unpaid work in the home. When Grassroots Research commenced the Generation Expendable? study in mid-2020, Australia’s pandemic fallout was already
The book Housing for Degrowth is the focus of 26 events in a European train tour of 11 countries from 26 October to 4 December. Co-editors Anitra Nelson and François Schneider will talk to students, degrowth activists, fellow academics — indeed anyone and everyone interested in housing and urban (de)growth in a range of cities.
New Release! Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary, by Sam Alexander and Brendan Gleeson.
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for suburban renewal.