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Svenja Meyerricks

Svenja Meyerricks

@krautwild

Svenja’s primary interests are communities, transformative education, degrowth and alternative economies.

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Svenja is a human ecologist, independent researcher and educator based in Glasgow.  Her main interests are community initiatives, commons and co-operation and alternative economic principles and practices. She is a member of the Enough Collective and has worked as a project manager, gardener and workshop leader in community food growing projects across Glasgow.

Svenja holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews titled ‘Community projects as liminal spaces for climate action and sustainability practices in Scotland‘. She also has an MSc in Human Ecology from the University of Strathclyde/ Centre for Human Ecology and an MA in Social Anthropology and Philosophy from the University of Glasgow.

Recent publication:

Meyerricks, S.; White, R.M. Communities on a Threshold: Climate Action and Wellbeing Potentialities in Scotland. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7357. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137357

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Invading the Skin of the Earth: COAL

23 January 2020
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Reclaiming Govan’s Future

28 February 2020
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By the Belly of the Beast: Degrowth Summer School 2017, Germany

15 January 2018
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Degrowth in Scotland: Real People in a Real Place

08 November 2021
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Care as Commons: Feminist and Postcolonial Economics

04 November 2021
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Like Leaves We Fall

02 November 2019
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Like Leaves We Fall – Solidarity and the Brexit zeitgeist

02 November 2019
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Unbrexable: Connections and Caring in European Scotland

02 September 2017

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