Corinna Dengler on feminist degrowth and a care-full radical transformation

Go Simone

Corinna Dengler studied Economics, Development Studies, and Socio-ecological Economics and Policy in Vienna, Moscow and Quito. Her research focuses on making degrowth more feminist and on how care can be organized in a degrowth society.

With Corinna, we talked about why degrowth is ecologically necessary, the need for a gender-equitable society transformation, degrowth and the Global South and the need to find out what a good life is.

References mentioned in this episode:

• Corinna Dengler's Profile
• Corinna Dengler's Research publications
• Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance [FaDA]
• Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study, The Guardian
• Exxon’s plan for surging carbon emissions revealed in leaked documents, Bloomberg Green
• The Limits to Growth report
• Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report
• Green New Deal
• The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
• The danger of a single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDGlobal 2009
• The dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The word for world is forest, Ursula K. Le Guin

The transcript of this episode can be found on Go Simone's website.