Publication Covilhã: Between the industrial and deindustrialization - Which paradigm: growth or degrowth?

Ethics and Politics

Covilhã: Between the industrial and deindustrialization - Which paradigm: growth or degrowth?

Date: 08-11-2023 17:00

Location: Sala dos Conselhos

In conjunction with the nucleus of the central region of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy, which begins its Cycle of conferences-debate “Political Economy in the Center: great challenges for the Region”, the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior carries out a round table debate on the theme of growth versus degrowth from a territory crossed by the tension between industrialization and deindustrialization.

The panel is made up of academics with diverse research paths in the broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences, contributing, from their angles of vision, to a comprehensive approach to the problem of prospective challenges for Covilhã from these two crossroads, the of a reality of deindustrialization in a city in the interior with a distinctly industrial past, and of a choice of paradigms in which growth as a response to development is opposed to the challenge of a decreasing response to development.

Opening:

Mário Raposo, Rector of the University of Beira Interior

Clara Murteira, Director of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy

Round table

Moderator:

José Reis, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra

Participants:

Alcides Monteiro (Department of Sociology, FCSH/UBI)

Anabela Dinis (Department of Management and Economics, FCSH/UBI)

André Barata, Department of Communication, Philosophy and Politics, FAL/UBI

Graça Rojão (President of Coolabora – Social Intervention).

Cienciavitae of participants