Defashion x Degrowth: Join us for the launch of the Handbook of Degrowth

The Routledge Handbook of Degrowth is a long-awaited review of the degrowth movement. To celebrate its launch, the book's editors, Anitra Nelson and Vincent Liegey are coming to the Islington Climate Centre in North London for a reading and panel discussion.

Tickets from £5, with options for the unwaged. Please book a space here.

They will be joined on the panel by anthropologist Sandra Niessen of Fashion Act Now, from the Netherlands, who contributed a chapter to the book, ‘Defining Defashion’. Readings of excerpts will be followed by a panel discussion facilitated by Sara Arnold, co-founder of Fashion Act Now, on the degrowth movement and its relation to the concept of defashion. We will then open the panel to a Q&A.

Degrowth is a social movement that critiques the global capitalist system which pursues growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction.

Through democratic means, degrowth strives to reduce our material…