The 4th Peaceful Coexistence Colloquium is an online event organized by SUCH Research Network. The event is due to take place Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd December 2021.

Sustainable Change and Sufficiency: Philosophies, practices, and pathways

The human impact on the environment is accelerating. Sustainability theory and practice are attempting to offer solutions for environmental degradation and social inequalities but will fail unless they acknowledge and address both the root causes of the ecological crisis, and seek various alternative trajectories of sustainable change.

The fourth Peaceful Coexistence Colloquium brings together people from different scholarly traditions and radical societal movements to discuss and debate on the alternative philosophies, practices, and pathways towards sustainability. To challenge the persisting mindsets, growth politics and economics, and technology-optimism, we invite scholars, practitioners, and activists to bring forth ideas of sustainable change and sufficiency with a holistic and interdisciplinary take on the issue.

Sufficiency, as a concept, could be considered to both address the nature of the change from ecological overshoot to sustainability, as well as the practices of sustainability, as it calls us to deliberate on questions such as ‘what is enough’ and ‘what do we need’ to live good and fulfilling lives. However, sufficiency is not only about quantity and/or identifying concrete needs, but an inclusive notion, deeply intertwined with different discourses on ethics, logic, practices, and policy. Therefore, we would like to ask you to share your thoughts on how can we make the needed societal changes sufficient, inclusive, and just?

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