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[Talk from the 2025 International Summer School of Political Ecology in Ljubljana]

How can socio-ecological transformation come about? This lecture will address this question by drawing on the academic-activist discussion on degrowth. Degrowth has been mobilised to show why perpetual pursuit of economic growth is problematic and to elaborate what alternatives to growth and capitalism look like, putting ecological sustainability, social justice and wellbeing to the forefront. Recently, the question how to foster these alternatives and bring about socio-ecological transformation of our societies – namely the question of strategy – has become key. This lecture introduces strategy as a dynamic concept and argues for the importance to think about it analytically. Building on whilst diverging from the vocabulary of Erik Olin Wright, it lays out three modes of transformation, their corresponding strategic logics, as well as dynamics between them, helping to orient, decide and reflect on strategic configurations in different contexts.

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Ekaterina Chertkovskaya is a researcher based at Lund University working on degrowth and critical organisation studies, with a focus on strategies for social-ecological transformation. She co-edited »Degrowth & Strategy« and »Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth«.