Routledge Handbook of Degrowth Tour 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Degrowth is going on a grand tour of Europe, from late April 2025.
Through May and June, the editor of the handbook, Anitra Nelson, and it’s editorial adviser, Vincent Liegey, will speak alongside contributors of chapters at numerous events in various European cities.
The book will be released 25 June in the week-long 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference 24–27 June 2025 in Oslo (Norway), where we will have our international launch with a large panel of contributors.
The handbook will be open access so all can enjoy it!
For more on the book, see here and at its Routledge page
Schedule
| What | Where | When | Host | Flyers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everything you wanted to know about degrowth | ABF 47 Spånehusvägen Malmö, Skåne län, 211 58 Sweden | 27 April (Sunday) 1600–18:00 | Institutet för Nerväxtstudier (degrowth.se) | https://degrowth.se/events/2025/4/27/degrowth-handbook-launch |
| Degrowth and design: de-Architecture? | Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design, and Conservation – 2025 Research and Artistic Research Symposium | 29 April (Tuesday) | Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design, and Conservation | Internal staff only |
| Art and society through feminist degrowth | Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Islands Brygge 18 – Copenhagen, Denmark | 30 April (Wednesday) 15:00–16:30 | Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) & The Syndicate of Creatures (tSoC) | See – https://cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar/2025/art-and-society-through-feminist-degrowth/ |
| Degrowth: new narratives for a new economic era – Routledge Handbook of Degrowth launch | Corvinus University of Budapest C Epület, Közraktár u. 4-6 1093, utca 2-4. | 5 May (Monday) 16:00–17:30 | Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies | See – https://www.facebook.com/events/537977615837560 Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/qpdM76wfdh |
| Budapest Cargonomia – 10th Anniversary Party | Starts @ Cargonomia – II Janos Pal Papa ter, Budapest | 10 May (Saturday) from 13:00 at the park | Cargonomia – https://cargonomia.hu/ and Auróra | See –https://www.facebook.com/events/9435839063200658/ |
| Exploring the future of degrowth in research, science and practice | Central European University, Vienna | 12 May (Monday) 16:30–18:00 | Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy | https://www.facebook.com/events/1184664452925035 https://events.ceu.edu/2025-05-12/exploring-future-degrowth-research-science-and-practice |
| Defashion x Degrowth: Join us ... | Islington Climate Centre 21 Parkfield Street #Unit R2, Floor 1 London N1 0PS United Kingdom | 18 May (Sunday) 17:30–20:00 | Fashion Act Now! – https://www.fashionactnow.org/ | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defashion-x-degrowth-join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-handbook-of-degrowth-tickets-1330800543249 |
| Degrowth food provisioning: Reimagining research methods and relationships | Centre for Food Policy, City St.George's, University of London, London | 19 May (Monday) 13:00–14:00 | Centre for Food Policy, City St.George's, University of London | Internal research seminar presentation |
| Degrowth – Economies as if People and Planet Mattered | School of Geography, University of Leeds, Level 7 Foyer (entrance on Chancellors Court, near Sustainability Garden) | 20 May (Tuesday) 16:00–17:30 | Hosted by The School of Geography and the Sustainability Research Institute, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds. | All welcome; no need to book; refreshments provided. Paul Chatterton p.chatterton@leeds.ac.uk Richard Baernthaler R.Barnthaler@leeds.ac.uk |
| Next stop, Degrowth! | UCL Bentham House, LG26 Lecture Room 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG | 21 May (Wednesday) 16:30–18:00 | Collaboration between the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey and Degrowth London | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/next-stop-degrowth-tickets-1356997238269 |
| Degrowth: Reinventing sustainable futures | Bolygó Közösségi Tér Budapest | 27 May (Tuesday) 18:00 | Bolygó – https://bolygo.org/ Cargonomia – https://cargonomia.hu/ and Budapest Degrowth Week | https://www.facebook.com/events/bolyg%C3%B3-k%C3%B6z%C3%B6ss%C3%A9gi-t%C3%A9r/degrowth-re-inventing-sustainable-futures/1188378715985001/ |
| Presentation of Routledge Handbook of Degrowth | Hybrid event: live at University of Turin – Room F4 Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena, 100, 10153 Torino TO – for online see last column | 4 June (Wednesday) 16:30–18:30 | Department of Cultures, Politics and Society – Univerity of Turin | See details with link for online participation in the poster attached here: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=nwtz Contact karlbenjamin.kraehmer@unito.it |
| La Decrescita in Italia e nel mondo: Presentazione del Routledge Handbook of Degrowth | 5 giugno, dalle 15 alle 17, presso il Centro di Ateneo per i Diritti Umani "Antonio Papisca", via Beato Pellegrino 28, Padova, Italy | 5 June (Thursday) 14:30 – 18:00 | Università degli Studi di Padova + Centro di Ateneo per i Diritti Umani "Antonio Papisca" | To come |
| Growing Your Understanding of Degrowth: A Workshop with Anitra Nelson | Rachel Carson Centre for the Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Münich, Germany | 6 June (Friday) 16:00–17:30 | Rachel Carson Centre for the Environment and Society – https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/index.html | Places are limited so you need to register by emailing Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova –ucfamut@ucl.ac.uk – https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7329386005927489536/ https://x.com/sevgimutlu80/status/1924407161704030507 |
| Informal activities | Kommune Niederkaufungen, Kassel, Germany | 7–10 June (Saturday to Tuesday) informal meetings on nonmonetary economies, degrowth and more | Kommune Niederkaufungen –https://www.kommune-niederkaufungen.de/ | |
| Book launch: Degrowth Handbook | Kiezkapelle (inside the Prinzessinnengarten), Hermannstr. 102, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany | 12 June (Thursday) 18:00– | German degrowth activists and handbook contributors Andrea Vetter and Matthias Fersterer | A conversation between editors and authors on degrowth, commoning and conviviality. Bring food for a convivial picnic afterwards in the Prinzessinnengärten. |
| TBA | Brno, Czechia | 13 June (Friday) | Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology and the Department of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, and the Degrowth group at NaZemi NGO | To come |
| Teaching and Learning Degrowth: A conversation with Anitra Nelson on the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth | University of Groningen, The Netherlands | 17 June (Tuesday) 12:00–13.30 | Co-organised by working groups 'Conflict, Environment & Society' and 'Transitions and Social Justice' of the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development (https://www.rug.nl/rudolf-agricola-school). | https://www.rug.nl/rudolf-agricola-school/ |
| Degrowth Politics and Practices: A conversation with Anitra Nelson | Kortenaerkade 12 2518 AX The Hague The Netherlands | 18 June (Wednesday) 16:00–17.30 | Development Research Seminar, International institute of Social Studies – https://www.iss.nl/en | https://www.iss.nl/en/events/degrowth-politics-and-practices-conversation-anitra-nelson-2025-06-18 |
| TBA | University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 19 June (Thursday) 16:00–17:30 | Federico Savini, Associate Professor, Environmental Planning, Institutions and Politics, University of Amsterdam | To come |
| International launch of the The Routledge Handbook on Degrowth – due for release 25 June | 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and 11th International Degrowth Conference (23–27 June, IDN Assembly, Monday) | Thursday 26 June 18:00 | Auditorium, University of Oslo – Campus Blindern | https://isee-degrowth2025.no/ |