Sustainability and Democracy: Politics of Limits Conference
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Admission is free, but registration is required by November 30. Register via email to sustainability-democracy@uni-due.de.
Association Team
This conference is hosted by the Center for Global Cooperation Research and its ‘Sustainability and Democracy’ Fellow Group.
Organizing Team: Britta Acksel, Matthias Kranke, Christian Scheper, Eva Weiler (academic programme); Lisa Mereu, Sebastian Meurer (logistics)
Tentative Programme
Monday, December 8
12:30-13:00
Registration
13:00-13:15
welcome and Introduction
13:15-14:45
Theories of Limits
Karoline Kalke & Daniel Hausknost (Wien): Can Republican Freedom Address the Barriers to Implementing Politics of Limits in Western Democracies?
Tobias Vogel (Bochum) & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten/Herdecke): Democracy and Sustainability in Times of Climate Crisis: Limiting Distributive Inequality to Enable Relational Equality
Basil Bornemann (Zürich): Planetary Boundaries and Democracy: Exploring challenges and Potentials for Innovation
15:00-16:30
What to Limit and How?
Lea Becker, Lars Berker & Doris Fuchs (Potsdam): Pursuing the Change Towards 1.5° Societies in Times of Polarization
Rose Troll (Bremen): Limits of Nature and Limits of Society
Lorina Buhr (Göttingen): Too Much of a Good Thing? A Political Limitarian Outlook on the Development of (Digital) Technology
16:45-18:15
Structural Obstacles to Limitations? The role of Economic Policy
John Berten, Robin Schulze Waltrup & Alexandra Kaasch (Bielefeld): Limits to Welfare? The Translation of Boundary Concepts in Global Eco-Social Policy
Oliver Braganza (Bonn) & Jakob Kapeller (Duisburg-essen)
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