Proud To Be Anti-Growth
Friday, October 13, 2023 at 10:18AM One of the university presses I’ve published with in the past has just announced growth of 17% on the previous financial year.
As a not-for-profit publisher I understand why they’re celebrating this. Still, I wonder when such presses will realise being pro-economic growth today is not necessarily a good thing? I mean, come on, it’s an agenda that’s being championed by Liz Truss. Nuff said.
Isn't the direction of travel more toward degrowth postdevelopment and postextractivism in an effort to repair the destruction of the planet brought about by the mass production and consumption of commodities?
I know many of the projects I’m involved with are proud to be anti-growth.
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Coninuing the anti-growth theme, I came across these two recently:
1) Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 'R-Words: Refusing Research', in Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities, eds Django Paris & Maisha T. Winn (London: Sage, 2014).
(It's the text proposed by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting for the next Limits to Openness reading group on the 18th December, 2023.)
2) A call for submissions to a panel on 'Degrowing Data: Valuing and Practicing Intentional Data Loss', at the 4S/EASST Conference, Amsterdam, 16-19 July 2024.