Exploring Post-Growth Infrastructures

Growth is the metaphorical elephant in the room of all contemporary policy discussions. How sustainable development can be fostered in practice requires not only confronting conceptions of economic growth and various post-growth alternatives, but considering how various forms of growth are entangled in the infrastructures of life.  From ports to highways and railways, from money to accounting, this open event showcases research from a recently published special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Economy & Society to explore pathways and promises of enacting post-growth infrastructures. Background reading: in English and in Dutch 

The programme will feature presentations from several contributors to the issue, including Kei Otsuki on highway development in the Amazon; Aslı Yürük on Istanbul’s first cruise port; Clemens Hoffmann on high-speed decarbonisation projects in Africa; and Sylvain Maechler on green accounting. The event will open with an overview of the project by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke.

Programme