Episode #28 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Christian Schulz (University of Luxembourg). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
“Within the discipline, there is something going on…”. Reflecting on a decade of post-growth thinking in economic geography and spatial planning. Following diverse understandings and misunderstandings and post-growth practices in central Europe. Focusing on horizontal replication, learning, and regional perspectives. Understanding the importance of the social dimension in a post-growth transformation. Taking up the democratic idea and democratic challenge, e.g., towards critical thinking regarding housing policies and questions of land and land ownership. Identifying future hope in young scholars, students, and growing engagement in the discipline. Utilising experience from own research projects and two research-practice working groups on post-growth geographies and well-being.
You might want to read or listen into the following works that are related to this episode:
- Schulz, C. (2025). Economic Geographies of Post-Growth. In J. Glückler, M. Garschagen, & R. Panitz (Eds.), Knowledge and Space. Placing the Future (Vol. 20,pp. 167–183). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5_9
- Lange, B., Hülz, M., Schmid, B., & Schulz, C. (Eds.). (2021). Post-Growth Geographies: SpatialRelations of Diverse and Alternative Economies. Social and Cultural Geography:Vol. 49. Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457337
- Lange, B., Hülz, M., Schmid, B., & Schulz, C. (Eds.). (2024). Wohlstandsalternativen: RegionalePositionen und räumliche Praktiken. Sozial- und Kulturgeographie: Vol. 61. Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470473 (German)
- ARL, Academy forTerritorial Development in the Leibniz-Association. Themendossier Postwachstum. https://www.arl-net.de/de/postwachstum (German)
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: @postgrowthplan).