Book Launch & Seminar |Teaching and Learning Degrowth: A conversation with Anitra Nelson on the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

Associate Professor Anitra Nelson
(University of Melbourne, Australia)

Dr. Ethemcan Turhan & Dr. Christian Lamker
(University of Groningen)

Anitra Nelson is activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Most of her academic activities coincide with political and philosophical interests, indeed passions. She is editor of the upcoming ‘Routledge Handbook of Degrowth’ (2025). It “takes stock of ‘degrowth’, a concept and movement, gaining increasing visibility in the 2020s. Contributors explain contexts for degrowth’s significance, elaborate its diverse history and detail its unique approaches, practices, challenges and potential futures. Grounded in empirical cases they identify significant social and ecological challenges, relevant to students, researchers, activists, policy-makers and practitioners at various levels within the wide range of fields in which degrowth can be applied.” (book cover).

We invite everyone to a book launch and research seminar and to listening, discussing, and sharing experiences:

1. Presentation of the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (Anitra Nelson)

2. Conversation between Ethemcan Turhan, Christian Lamker and Anitra Nelson on how to use such academic resources in teaching based on our experience with the course 'Critical Approaches to Global Sustainability Challenges'

3. Open Discussion

More Information

Routledge Handbook of Degrowth Tour 2025: https://anitranelson.info/tours

Guest lecture in Groningen (2024, online): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJLAZjUyoA

Contact

Registration is not necessary.

For any questions, please contact:

Ethemcan Turhan, e.turhan@rug.nl, Christian Lamker, c.w.lamker@rug.nl