Anthropological Perspectives on Growth and Degrowth

Dutch Anthropological Association (ABv)

The Dutch Anthropological Association invites you to the ABv Webinar #5 on Anthropological Perspectives on Growth and Degrowth.

The <a href="https://antropologen.nl/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dutch Anthropological Association</a> invites you for its 2023 Spring Webinar on anthropological perspectives on growth and degrowth.Since the publication of the ‘Limits to Growth’ report some 50 years ago, the desirability of economic growth has been a topic of fierce dispute. Although the growth conundrum has long triumphed these debates, this has started to shift over the recent years. Academics and politicians seem to have fallen out of love with economic growth as panacea for development and growth is increasingly being villainized in relation to the multiple environmental crises, especially climate change. At the same time, calls to move beyond economic growth are gaining popularity among academics, social movements and policy-makers. Particularly degrowth is well under way to consolidate as a vibrant field of inquiry, a movement and a community of practice. In the light of these events, we ask what this may imply for the work of anthropologists. How do they engage with the conceptual body of degrowth and the degrowth movement? What unique theoretic, methodological and political contributions can anthropology make to a post-growth society? How to deal with the ongoing importance of growth in the many contexts anthropologists research? What could a sustained engagement with and theorization of growth look like in such contexts? In this webinar, we invite scholars focusing on economic growth and/or degrowth to discuss these and other pressing questions. G﻿uests: •	<a href="https://www.lys-alcayna-stevens.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lys Alcayna-Stevens</a> is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, and a Research Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg. Her current research focuses on exploring an agenda for a post-growth anthropology and for a rethinking of Degrowth debates from the South.•	<a href="http://eric-hirsch.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eric Hirsch</a> is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the Franklin &amp; Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. His current research focuses on what economic growth actually looks like for people in their daily lives, the results of which have been recently published in the book “<a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33903" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru</a>” (2022, Stanford University Press).•	<a href="https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/a/s.kaul/s.kaul.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shivani Kaul</a> is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and a visiting researcher at the Royal University of Bhutan. Her current research focuses on alternatives to sustainable development, post-growth approaches to global health and science in Bhutan, and the interface between degrowth and psychoanalysis.•	<a href="https://www.ru.nl/personen/beuving-j" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Joost Beuving</a> is a university lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University where he specializes in the anthropology of economic life, especially entrepreneurship and problem debt. He is the author of “<a href="https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BeuvingTheorizing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future: Voices from Global Frontiers</a>” (Berghahn, 2023). T﻿his webinar will be moderated by <a href="https://www.ru.nl/personen/teijlingen-k-van" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Karolien van Teijlingen</a>, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen and board member of the Dutch Anthropology Association.