Learning and building knowledge for degrowth: communities of practice and peer production across scales and beyond roles

From autonomous and grassroots political movements, to transition initiatives or the broad range of „nowtopias“ (Carlsson and Manning, 2010), learning and innovation seems to be taking place at a pace never seen before. However, such projects are often too loose and disperse to be able to significantly develop learning processes and promote civic engagement in complex political issues. Degrowth has the potential to offer a framework for bridging these movements and engage them in collective action (Baptista et al. 2012; Kallis et al., 2012).