Sociologist from Berlin. Professor in Social Policy and Sustainability at Lund University: #capitalism and its environmental and social implications, #degrowth , #postgrowth, #sustainability, #wellbeing, #climatecrisis,#politicaleconomy
Here is the subsequently updated lecture published: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.13728
A sustainable welfare deal for a #postgrowth #Europe: A new blog on my Journal of Common Market Studies annual lecture in Lyon. https://jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/18/a-sustainable-welfare-deal-for-a-postgrowth-europe/
My thoughts on democratic #degrowth planning: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2024.2383335#d1e119
Understanding the economic, social and, especially, symbolic power of the rich to prevent social-ecological transformations. Some conceptual ideas for corresponding research:
https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.439
New book on #degrowth transformations out: https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526173287/9781526173287.xml
This is what our book Deep Transformations: A Theory of #Degrowth is going to look like (cowritten with the great Hubert Buch-Hansen and Iana Nesterova). It will be out in April and available open
access https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177858/
What would #work and #SocialSecurity look like in #degrowth / #postgrowth contexts and if #sustainablewelfare principles were applied? We discuss some of the literature and present results from deliberative #citizen forums on needs satisfaction in #Sweden: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13882627231204989
Rethinking Prosperity: business and welfare in a postgrowth economy | Workshop, Lund University, 🗓️20 Oct 2023 → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/postgrowth-lund-workshop/
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cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #SustainableWelfare #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #välfärdutantillväxt #Postwachstum #PostCroissance #PostCrecimiento #Decroissance #Decrecimiento #BeyondGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PostGrowthPolitics #DoughnutEconomics #CircularEconomy
#SocialEnterprise #SocEnt #AlternativeBusiness #AlternativeEnterprise #SocialGoals #SocialBusiness
On flying, climate emergency, the academic field and a new research project:
Interview on my work of the last 10 years or so. Many thanks to all of you who shared the journey and continue to do so!
On commonalities between sustainanble welfare and the IPCC: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7389/107137
J. Lee, J. Alkan-Olsson and I suggest how to deliberate a '#sustainable #welfare-#work nexus' in #degrowth / #postgrowth contexts in #Sweden. We combine #deliberative #CitizenEngagement and a representative survey on ecosocial policies. Comments welcome! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11615-023-00454-6
#Nordic Council of Ministers finds "limited evidence for absolute decoupling ..." of environmental resource use and GDP growth. Where this has been achieved "it has not been rapid enough to respect planetary boundaries by mid-century." #degrowth
https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-542/#85960
New paper out on 'Social Policy in a #ClimateEmergency Context: Towards an Ecosocial Research Agenda'. Great cooperation with
TuuliHirvilamm, Liisa Häikiö, Håkan Johansson and
Johanna Perkio
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#socialjustice #climate #climatechange #politics #degrowth #citizenship #risk #wellbeing #welfare
@MatthewToad42@climatejustice.social I am working with Hubert and Iana on a book where we combine their Critical Realism approach with Bourdieusian sociology which I think is useful to overcome a too individual and voluntaristic approach. In one chapter we interpret data from this article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12887 and relate it to the four planes of existence from CR. I do think this plane thinking is a good way towards overcoming calling everything 'complex' that has to do with degrowth transformtions.
Fantastic X-mas read by H. Buch-Hansen and I Nesterova: what we need less and more in #degrowth transformations from a Critical Realism perspective. Will also be applied in our forthcoming book with Manchester UP https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800922003925
Check out Kajsa Emilsson's fantastic PhD thesis on the public support for sustainable welfare in Sweden. She will defend it on 13 January in Lund with
@wvlancker as opponent.
#climatejustice #climatecrisis #sustainability https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/files/130386462/Kajsa_Emilsson_avhandling_kappa_.pdf
1620 researchers support young people in suing the Swedish government for flawed climate policies. Here is our letter of support:
