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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastDegrowth economics - future or fringe?The degrowth movement seeks to challenge a central plank of global economic policy — that more is always better. Instead, to avoid future crises, advocates of degrowth say it is time to embrace a model that prioritises quality of life and sustainability over economic expansion Guests:Alvaro Alvarez, documentary maker, "Less is more: Can degrowth save the world?"Anitra Nelson, Associate Professor and Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne and co author of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide 2025-02-1118 min
Principle of CharityCan Degrowth Save the Planet? Pt. 2 On the CouchThis week economist Gene Tunny and activist-scholar Anitra Nelson join host Lloyd Vogelman on the couch for an unfiltered conversation that digs into the personal side of the Principle of Charity. Can two diametrically opposed thinkers meet in the middle when it’s planetary survival that’s at stake? BIOSGene Tunny is the Founder and Director of Adept Economics and the current President of the Queensland branch of the Economic Society of Australia. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in economics at Griffith University and an Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studi...2024-11-0434 minPrinciple of CharityCan Degrowth Save the Planet?In this episode we’re joined by economist Gene Tunny and activist-scholar Anitra Nelson to ask whether degrowth can save the planet, or if we should stay the current economic course. As recently as 150 years ago, pretty much everyone was living in what we’d now call extreme poverty. Thanks to capitalism, that rate is now just 9%, with a reduction of 38% in the last 30 years alone. So what’s the problem? Well, for one thing, we’ve been plundering the natural world to fuel our growth, with little regard for its limitations...2024-10-2855 min
The Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZDegrowthToday we are talking degrowth - the idea that for environmental sustainability and economic equity we need a smaller, more localised economy. I speak to long-term degrowth advocates Terry Leahy and Anitra Nelson.
Originally broadcast 07/07/232023-12-1944 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastPGAP live at the NENA conference: Life After CapitalismPGAP recently had the pleasure of travelling to Canberra to record live at the 2023 New Economy Network Australia (NENA) conference: ‘Life after Capitalism’. We recorded a collage of presentions and interviews with conferences attendees into order to showcase nearly two hours of Post-Growth goodness. This episode includes well-known names such as Tom Ballard, Donnie MacLurcan, Anitra Nelson and Gareth Hughes.
(graphic courtesy of NENA)
PGAP acknowledges the Ngunnawal, First Custodians of the country where the recordings of this conference took place. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that colonisation cont...2023-12-141h 55
Think AgainThe need to De-Grow: How can we make it happen?Many of us worried about what we humans are doing to Mother Earth – and to ourselves, of course - have wondered about the paradox of our continuing dedication to ‘economic growth’ and our knowledge of what this growth is doing to Earth and ourselves… Indeed, the assumed need for ‘growth’ remains a seeming unchallengeable postulate of our economic system, commentators confirming it for all kinds of reasons, like it’s needed to increase our wellbeing, to defeat poverty, to allow for more social justice, but there’s meanwhile a vast body of research documenting that economic ‘growth’ isn’t improving any of these things…Jac...2023-12-0100 min
SaltgrassS5 E06 Talking About Money
Following on from the last episode about the Castlemaine Currency Project, this episode shares audio from a panel discussion that was part of the original exhibition and social experiment.
Featuring:
Warwick Smith, Castlemaine Institute
Karl Fitzgerald, Prosper Australia
Merryn Tinkler, Mount Alexander Shire - Manager of Economy and Culture
Anitra Nelson, University of Melbourne
2023-04-2450 minSaltgrassS5 E05 The Castlemaine Currency Project
Local currencies and alternative money systems... what is that all about? Is it really a helpful thing to be thinking about in the middle of the climate crisis?
A group of artists in Castlemaine have created an art project and social experiment in the form of a local currency they called The Silver Wattle to explore just these questions.
The audio in this episode was recorded at a live event that was held as part of the Castlemaine fringe arts festival – one year after the Castlemaine Currency Project was la...2023-04-0347 min
Natter & Gnaw by Clarion CallMovement Building for New EconomyJoin special guests Dr Anitra Nelson author of Beyond Money and many other publications and Meaghan Burkett (Ethical Fields) as they discuss The New Economy- , what shifts we need to make in our thinking and actions to build regenerative equitable economic systems. Both guests highlight the need to live within boundaries defined by the ecological capacity of the planet and the needs of humans and other living beings by strengthening ‘place’ and people at the local level as well and building a boarder environment that supports increased democratisation and ownership at the local level. They differ in how this can be...2023-03-261h 00
Climate ConversationsEvent/DNA launch: Sociologist Terry Leahy questions life following introduction of renewable energy - 'There's no such thing as a free lunch'Melbourne-based sociologist, author and podcaster, Terry Leahy (pictured), was one of three speakers at the Sunday, February 26, launch of Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) at Northcote's Black Spark Cultural Centre.
The two other speakers were Earthworker board member and a Victorian Trades Hall Council Just Transitions Organiser, Colin Long, and activist-scholar, Anitra Nelson, an honorary principal fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne.
Terry's podcast is "System Change Made Simple".
The DNA launch was an official event on the program for the annual National Sustainable Living Festival.2023-02-2823 min
Climate ConversationsEvent/launch: Anitra Nelson speaks at February 26 launch of Degrowth Network Australia (DNA)Anitra Nelson (pictured) has long been a key player in Australia's degrowth conversation, even talking about the issue before it had been formally described as such. She is also known throughout the world for her work on advancing the degrowth philosophy.
The activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at the University of Melbourne, Australia, was one of three speakers who addressed about 40 people at what was, on Sunday, February 26, the formal launch of the Degrowth Network Australia.
Also speaking at the launch was the Just Transition Officer from the Victorian Trades Hall...2023-02-2820 min
Climate ConversationsCelebration/Event: 'In order to save the village we had to destroy it' - Colin Long at the launch of Degrowth Network Australia (DNA)Colin Long (pictured) was one of three speakers at the Sunday, February 26, launch of the Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) at Northcote's Black Spark Cultural Centre.
The board member from Earthworker, environmental activist and Just Transitions Organizer from the Victorian Trades Hall Council was joined as a speaker by activist/scholar and an honourary principal fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne, Anitra Nelson, and Melbourne sociologist and author, Terry Leahy, who publishes the podcast, "System Change Made Simple".
About 40 people joined the launch/celebration, which was a part of Melbourne's...2023-02-2726 min
Moral MazeMorality and MoneyIn her first public comments since leaving office, the Ex-PM Liz Truss has argued that her plans to boost economic growth were brought down by "the left-wing economic establishment". Losing the confidence of the financial markets at a time of global uncertainty has made us all more aware of our income and expenditure. If the news accurately reflected our lives, it would be hard to escape the conclusion that life is all about money - inflation, interest rates, pay demands and profits. The overriding objective of measuring economic growth is to help as many people as possible to have...2023-02-0942 min
The Moneyless Society PodcastMoney is Unsustainable with Anitra NelsonWhat's wrong with money? Is it "just a tool"? Are markets sustainable? We talk with activist-scholar Anitra Nelson, author of Beyond Money: a Postcapitalist Strategy, to break down why money itself really is a core problem, and how we can work to transcend it. We talk de-growth, localized solutions, market dynamics, technology, and really get to the heart of what this movement is all about: creating better, saner, healthier, more ecological alternatives!
2023-01-221h 36
Desire + CapitalE01 Money, the God of CommoditiesIn this episode, Ryan and Jamie talk about the god of commodities: money. Guiding us trough this subject is Marxist scholar Anitra Nelson. We got a lot to get through, so on your Marx, get set, let’s go!Karl Marx · Anitra Nelson · Communism · Socialism · Revolution · Real Value · Use Value · Exchange Value · Jeff Bezos · Mad Max Fury Road Desire + Capital: An Afternoon with Andreas Kalyvas When: 16:00 t/m 18:00 28 November Where: Erasmus University Rotterdam Find more Information here! SG//Silent Sou...2022-12-0146 min
Climate ConversationsKeeping the conversation going: I'm a long way from home, but climate change never rests and so neither can IMelbourne's Anitra Nelson is best known for her interest in degrowth although this story is related, it's from a slightly different angle - "These technologies help you live lightly on the planet".
From the Sydney Morning Herald we read about an idea to tax cow burbs -"New Zealand climate policy proposal includes taxing cow burps"
And from the English version of El País we read that: "From climate change denial to delays: Oil firms send academics into the fray".
Miki Perkins writes in the Melbourne Age in a story headed "What w...2022-10-1207 min
Heart Yoga RadioTHE DAY AFTERIn this podcast we entertain the likelihood of an impending sublime moment in which a variety of people's actions bring about some fundamental disruption of the status quo. We think that such an event is highly likely but that it will present revolutionary and civil-disobedience movements with the problem of what to do the day after the sublime moment. This is a point often elaborated by Zizek. We offer the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring as examples. We proceed by way of allowing the ideas in two recent books, both offering some utopian speculations informed to some degree b...2022-08-2743 min
Urban Political PodcastDispatch from INURA Conference 2022 in LuxemburgSmall State Big Transitions
The 30th annual INURA Conference entitled "Small State Big Transitions” was held in Luxembourg from June 25 to 28. Over 60 participants gathered at the conference to learn about the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and to celebrate the 30 years INURA. This year’s conference was organised by the Urban Studies Group at the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Luxembourg.
With a population of just over 600,000, Luxembourg is a small, multilingual, sovereign state. But these diminutive attributes belie a cosmopolitan space where daily life frequently involves using three languages, and encountering perhaps four...2022-07-2752 min
FutureXplorationsDegrowth - Dr. Anitra NelsonIn this, the last interview of the season, I have the privilege to talk to Dr. Anitra Nelson, among many other things we discussed:
- Inequality
- How CO2 emissions is just the tip of the iceberg in sustainability issues
- How capitalism is connected to our sustainability problems
- Dualism between humans and nature as a wrong way of practicing our lives
- Move beyond production to the market, towards production based on demand
- What degrowth is, and it is not
- Accumulation of wealth
- Health and e...2022-07-121h 11
Climate ConversationsA postcapitalist vision: Anitra Nelson talks about a life beyond moneyAnitra Nelson wants to see a different sort of society - one that cares about people, that cares about the state of the Earth and puts both those values ahead of the profit so prized by the prevailing capitalist society.
The honorary principal fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute from the University of Melbourne wrote about that in her 2022 book "Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy" (pictured) and talks about the idea in the video clip "Beyond Money".
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".2022-07-0303 min
Climate ConversationsWebinar: 'We must re-appropriate the power of money we have ceded to capitalism' - Anitra NelsonA prolific author and adventurous thinker, Associate Professor Anitra Nelson (pictured), and her book, "Beyond Money: a post-capitalist strategy", were at the core of two webinars staged by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives.
Professor Nelson, who is with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, has argued that the power of money ceded to capitalism must be reappropriated and handed to communities.
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations2022-06-0130 min
SEARCH Foundation AustraliaPandemic Solidarity and Degrowth - Anitra Nelson and Vincent LiegeyThis event features Anitra Nelson (Central Victoria) and Vincent Liegey (Budapest) speaking on their recent books – Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide and Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis.DescriptionIs postcapitalism nigh? If so, what visions and practices exemplify postcapitalism?Revolutions are wrought from testing times and sparks that light the way ahead. These two books have evolved as international collaborations from contemporary social movements. One explains the background, activities, and political achievements and challenges for ‘degrowth’. The other analyses the eruption of mutual aid organisations across 18 countries and regions in the curren...2022-04-191h 12
Post-Growth Australia PodcastPGAP Christmas Special with Michael's Seasonal ManifestoThe festive season is upon us as we wrap close to another year in the decade of consequence. To ‘celebrate’, PGAP host Michael Bayliss shares his own personal vision for a post-growth future. He looks back nostalgically on his Melbourne years, reflecting on the many successes and challenges from ten years in many various grassroots community initiatives. He also plays a selection of songs, penned by himself or by friends that espouse the Degrowth values of this podcast even if they may not inspire complete festive cheer. Enjoy!
During our break between seasons, PGAP has been...2021-12-2451 min
The Human Show: Innovation through Social ScienceDr. Ferne Edwards: Cultural Anthropologist and An Activist ScholarWe are pleased to have Ferne with us talking about anthropology of food – a field that has been at the core of her research and professional focus for the last 17 years. How did food become Ferne’s topic? What were the drivers that moved her anthropological research from food, to sustainable city movements to political ecology? Ferne describes herself as an activist scholar and describes the way she balances the stillness of mind that academic work requires and the rush that the applied work often entails. We ask how to be an ethical consumer in a city environment and how...2021-06-0949 minSaltgrassS3 E16 DegrowthIn this episode we explore the alternative economic concept of Degrowth with Anitra Nelson and Terry Leahy. It is a growing movement across the world and has at it's heart sustainability and ways we can live in balance with the planet.
Find out more and see the links and resources at saltgrasspodcast.com
2021-02-1555 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastSeason 2 - Episode 1: Degrowth in Action with Artists as FamilyA new year – a new season of Post-Growth Australia Podcast (PGAP). What better way to open than with Meg Ulman and Patrick Jones from Artist as Family – two people who are living Degrowth day by day in the most visceral, practical, and inspiring way I have ever seen. Their dedication to living within their ethics, politics and the bio-capacity of their home in Daylesford is nothing short of phenomenal.
The interview begins with a tour of their quarter acre block that they share with their son Woody and their dog Zero. The usual modern day trap...2021-02-011h 09
Postcapitalism PodcastAnitra Nelson on capitalism, COVID-19, and degrowth economicsIn this episode, we’ll be discussing degrowth economics, an approach that challenges us to live in much more collaborative and meaningful ways. In doing so, we can take care of our needs, take care of each other, and take care of the planet.Our guest is Anitra Nelson, an activist and scholar affiliated with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) at the University of Melbourne, in Australia. We'll be talking about everything from COVID-19 to tiny houses and the concept of conviviality.2020-12-1859 min
Utopian HorizonsDegrowth w/ Vincent Liegey & Anitra NelsonVincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson, the authors of the book Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide, join me to talk about what Degrowth means, how it aims to address the climate crises and change our world, why it is difficult for capitalism to co-opt it, and why we can't assume that renewable energy will solve all our problems.
Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
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Climate Action ShowTHE FRENCH CITIZENS ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATETHE FRENCH CITIZENS ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATENOVEMBER 2ND 2020 Interviews : Reema Rattan and Vivien LangfordProduction: Andy BrittGuests:Amandine Roggemann - International Committee for the implementation of citizen recommendations https://www.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/ Sonia Randhawa - The Coalition of Everyone https://www.coalitionofeveryone.com/ Vincent Liegey - Author with Anitra Nelson of "Exploring Degrowth". Can we be concerned about the end of the world and forget about justice?The French Citizens Assembly on Climate was a response to turmoil created by the yellow Vest Movement. As one protester said to President Macron " You are concerned with the end of the world, we are concerned...2020-11-0200 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastEpisode 7: Discovering Degrowth with Anitra NelsonDegrowth? What does it mean? Is it about austerity and deprivation? Or is it about community, collaboration and unshackling ourselves from the matrix of the growth economy into a world that is more equitable, liveable and sustainable? According to Anitra Nelson – definitely the latter!
Anitra Nelson is an author, scholar and activist. She is passionate about the degrowth movement in addition to alternatives in restructuring the ways in which we live and relate to each other. Particularly, co-housing, shared living and localised economies and governance.
During this interview, we discuss two important books of...2020-09-1651 minThink AgainCOVID, climate change and the (next) economyJacques and Jennifer talk about what is happening with the economy and the climate under COVID-19, and what we can learn to create a sustainable future. Liegey, Vincent & Nelson, Anitra (2020) Exploring Degrowth: An introduction to the Degrowth Movement London: Pluto PressNew Economics Foundation (2020) Beyond the Gig Economy: empowering the self-employed workforce www.neweconomics.orgBollier, David & Helfrich, Silke (2012) The Wealth of the Commonds: A World Beyond Market & State; Amherst: Levellers PressSocial and Solidarity Economy Is There a New Economy in the Making? Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk and Marie-Adélaïde Matheïfile:///G:/various%20materials/UNRISD_Occasional_Paper_Social_and_Soli...2020-08-2800 min
Urban Broadcast Collective64. Anitra Nelson: Housing for Degrowth, and Small is Necessary_TMBTPIn this episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth speaks with RMIT’s Associate Professor Anitra Nelson about a new book, “Housing for De-Growth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities”, and a slightly less new (but still 2018) book, “Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet”.
‘Degrowth’ — a type of ‘postgrowth’ — is a political, practical and cultural movement for down-scaling material and energy throughputs. Housing for Degrowth, co-edited by Anitra with Francois Schneider, includes an international collection of critical case studies, many written by activist scholars, of practical experiments – ‘demonstrations’ – in approaches to housing. While diverse in their contexts, they tend to share principles...2018-10-3150 min
Solidarity BreakfastMarx II Refugee death @ Manus II Rebel Women in 1880's II Weekly Round up from Kevin II Poverty, wages & the need for changeAss. Prof. Anitra Nelson on the relevance of Marx in the fight for the environment.Aron Mylvaganam talks about the recent death on Manus and the Federal Governments call for $7,500 from family to repatriate their sons body.Katie Wood, Socialist Historian, talks about rebel women.This is the week that wasDon Sutherland talks about the industrial landscape - how the laws are broken & what we can do about it.2017-10-0600 min
The SUWA Show - Squatters and Unwaged Workers AirwavesPodcast The SUWA Show - Doing It Ourselves Presents: Mutual Aid PanelIn this episode we played a recording of the Real Sustainability Through Mutual Aid panel, where Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy and Theo Kitchener talked about moneyless economies, revolution and Doing It Ourselves, the Gnomes Farming Co-operative and Livelyhood’s plans.2017-03-1700 min
Radioactive ShowSpaces of Resistance: Mapping Environmental JusticeThis week Anitra Nelson will introduce the Environmental Justice Atlas – an online tool which maps ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance, and identify ways that people can both utilise and contribute to this mapping project. We'll also be taking a closer look at one particular case of an Australian company who are effectively exporting their toxic and radioactive wastes overseas. Nat Lowrey, from the Stop LYNAS campaign, will bring us up to speed on where things are at with the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant in Malaysia and talk about the types of activism that have been employed in that campaign.2015-07-1100 min