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LESS2 A.Indd LESSA Journal of Degrowth in Scotland Issue 2 | Spring 2021 LESS : A Journal of Degrowth in Scotland 1 CONTENTS TAILOR MADE WELCOME DEGROWTH by Alis le May TO LESS p4 FIRST AS TRAGEDY, then as the natural sense of hope this instills farce. Fish in marine habitats off in the heart. Migratory birds and the coast of our corner of the North fish have left their winter haunts THE Atlantic are “British and happier for and arrived back at UK shores. Our ANTI-D’OH! it”1 after Brexit, according to Jacob annual reminder that freedom of Rees-Moog. Youth unrest ablaze movement is not just a perk that was by Pat Kane in Northern Ireland as lockdown temporarily bestowed upon us as p8 ennui meets marginalisation and a by-product of being a member predictable Brexit realpolitik. state of a single market. interview Mandatory, socially constructed Freedom of movement is with activist, CO-HOUSING royal mourning across the UK as the default mode of all life author and by Sarah Glynn hauntology meets hyperreal soft forms, us included – it’s academic p12 authoritarianism. how evolution itself unfolded. Andrea Vetter Meanwhile, the most symbolic Global freedom of movement on degrowth image from this period remains that is also a core demand of the principles by of a gigantic stuck container ship degrowth movement.2 Svenja Meyerricks. THE CARRYING blocking one of the world’s most In LESS’s first issue in We also have STREAM important trade arteries, laying bare 2021, we look at degrowth a collaborative essay the fragile imbalance of our global in the context of Brexit from the Highlands by Ainslie Roddick, Cáit O’Neill supply chains. All this during a and the pandemic, with contributions from McCullagh, Charlotte Mountford, Scottish election cycle in which little and share some Ainslie Roddick, Cáit Fadzai Mwakutuya, Jo Rodgers, of substance appears to be proposed modest proposals O'Neill McCullagh, Charlotte Kirsten Body, Lauren Pyott, Lisa in response to the metacrisis that to intervene Mountford, Fadzai Mwakutuya, MacDonald, Mairi McFadyen, threatens the basis of life. and build Jo Rodgers, Kirsten Body, Philomena de Lima and Raghnaid A hostile environment that has new Lauren Pyott, Lisa MacDonald, Sandilands been around long before Brexit lifeways that Mairi McFadyen, Philomena de p14 was on the horizon seems to have are within our power. Lima and Raghnaid Sandilands. permeated daily life for many of us. As the institutions We are also delighted to publish The real danger is when this state of and public sentiment of a degraded Sarah Glynn on cohousing and exception seems to feel normal, and United Kingdom cultivate a ecology, Pat Kane imagining a SCOTLAND alternatives to seem fanciful. We protectionist and insular retreat spot-capitalist future, Alis Le May QUO VADIS? need to imagine new worlds while from the world, it’s more important on slow-fashion and restoration we can. than ever to build political of local craft skills and poetry on Joachim Spangenberg It is one of those strange twists solidarity, intellectual networks, borders between the global north p20 of fate that almost at the exact and cultural connections across and global south from Juana point in time when Brexit – and Europe. In that spirit, this issue Adcock. We also feature art work CONTRIBUTORS and arts group; facilitating drawing for cooperative, which aims to facilitate currently building a directory of makers degrowth, sufficiency, sustainable blue passports – finally arrived, of LESS has contributions from by Pearse O'Halloran, Tarneem Al STORY OF wellbeing. Creates designs for poetry ecosocial transitions by promoting in Glasgow, to make it easier for Glasgow consumption, biodiversity conservation, freedom of movement stopped Joachim Spangenberg (Vice Mousawi, Stewart Bremner and JUANA ADCOCK is a poet and translator. books, posters and exhibitions - notably practices, training and research. He citizens to access locally made clothing. ecosystem services and their valuation. almost completely for UK citizens, President, Sustainable Europe Fadzai Mwakutuya. STEEL AND She has published Manca (Argonautica, at Kelvingrove Museum’s cultural also works at FUHEM as coordinator of alislemay.com, decentprojects.com ANDREA VETTER is an academic, halted by a mutant virus strain, the Research Institute and Chair THE LETTER M 2019), which explores the anatomy of survival gallery, and for a research ecosocial education. He participates FADZAI MWAKUTUYA, from Zimbabwe activist and author. She currently holds impact of which was exacerbated by of BUND/Friends of the Earth Notes Juana Adcock violence in the Mexican drug war, and project at University of Glasgow. actively in initiatives for justice and and based in Westeross, is an artist a professorship at the University of Fine incompetent government handling Germany), a translation of work by 1 theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/ p26 Split (Blue Diode Press, 2019) which was STEWART BREMNER is a graphic resilience. He authored and co-authored who makes thought provoking socially Arts in Braunschweig and also works westminster-news/jacob-rees-mogg-scottish- of the pandemic. Adrián Almazán and Luis González fishermen-brexit-troubles-6904448 a Poetry Book Society Choice and was designer, illustrator and artist with several books on social ecology, engaged artwork under the name at the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, a As we write this, we’re past the Reyes (Between limit and desire: 2 degrowth.info/en/2020/01/book-review- included in the Guardian’s Best Poetry of over twenty years experience. He is the including En la espiral de la energía (In Afro Art Lab. She is also a member of laboratory for new economic ideas. With vernal equinox and warmth and strategic directions in the collapse degrowth-postwachstum-a-german- 2019. Adrián Almazán holds a doctorate owner of indy-prints.com. You might the Spiral of Energy). the Repository of the Undercommons Matthias Schmelzer, she co-authored light are returning to Scotland, with of industrial civilisation) and an introduction-to-degrowth/ BETWEEN in Philosophy and also completed a remember him from the art he made PAT KANE is a writer, musician, creative (RotU), a curator/artist residency borne the book Degrowth/Postwachstum LIMIT AND Masters in Philosophical Critique and during the indyref. stewartbremner.co.uk consultant, activist, futurist and father. out of Enough!. fadzaimwakutuya.co.uk Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung, Reasoning. He alternated his scientific SARAH GLYNN is an activist, an He is author of The Play Ethic, co-initiator PEARSE O’HALLORAN is an independent (Junius-Verlag 2019). LESS IS A JOURNAL on degrowth, radical sufficiency extinction, inequality, racism and the far right, and the DESIRE formation with activism in different architect, and an academic. She has of The Alternative UK, a board member Graphic Designer and Illustrator AINSLIE RODDICK, and decolonisation in Scotland. interconnected oppressive and extractivist logic and by Adrián Almazán and Luis collectives. He participated in the published books and articles on housing of Common Weal, and has been a left/ working in the Outer Hebrides. CÁIT O’NEILL MCCULLAGH, LESS questions and challenges dominant narratives mechanisms that feed all of those. González Reyes editorial collective Ediciones de Salmón. and on the political mobilisation of green Scots indy campaigner for 30 pearseohalloran.com CHARLOTTE MOUNTFORD, about what economic progress means in Scotland, We invite a combination of thoroughly researched p28 More recently, he has been active with immigrant communities. She has years. Pat is currently writing a book DR. JOACHIM H. SPANGENBERG was FADZAI MWAKUTUYA, JO RODGERS, and sketches out alternative visions. The focus is on material, opinion pieces, poetry and art work. Ecologistas en Acción and with the campaigned for tenants’ rights and for on the relationships between human research coordinator at the Sustainable KIRSTEN BODY, LAUREN PYOTT, collective and democratic solutions to sustaining Contributions are invited from those with lived collective La Torna. Since September solidarity with Palestinians, and played a sciences, creativity and politics. He is still Europe Research Institute SERI Germany LISA MACDONALD, MAIRI MCFADYEN, livelihoods that meet people’s needs while rising knowledge in these areas, researchers, poets, creative 2020, he is professor of Philosophy in the leading role in establishing and running one half of the 80s pop group Hue And in Cologne. He currently spends most PHILOMENA DE LIMA and to the threats of climate change, ecocide and mass writers and artists. ON DEGROWTH University of Deusto (Bilbao). the Scottish Unemployed Workers’ Cry. patkane.global of his working time as Chair of the RAGHNAID SANDILANDS AND AN TARNEEM AL MOUSAWI is a graphic Network. She has been a practising ALIS LE MAY is a bespoke designer and Scientific Committee of BUND/Friends of are a ‘rurally syndicated’ gathering of designer, illustrator and mama of two architect and a university lecturer, and maker and co-founder of Decent Projects the Earth Germany, and as member of women – artists, researchers, educators, ECONOMY tots; learning to illustrate for children currently works for the Kurdish freedom C.I.C – a social enterprise which explores the Scientific Committee of the European producers, programmers, practitioners – LESS is produced by the Enough! Collective. Find out more at enough.scot or @enoughscot. Contact us on [email protected]. All content © 2020 their OF CARE is her current passion. Inspired by movement. sarahglynn.net the potential of sewing for improving Environment Agency. He works on each living and working in communities respective authors. All work published in LESS is licensed as creative commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 – creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) beautiful crafts and her arabic heritage. LUIS GONZÁLEZ REYES is a member of individual well-being and fostering new sustainable development strategies, from Loch Ness to Caithness, Ullapool to and can be freely reproduced and amended for non-commercial purposes.
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