03 Dec Yuly Choque attends Beyond Growth conference in Madrid
On 26 September 2025, Yuly Choque, PhD candidate within the DElaw project, attended the Beyond Growth conference taking place at the Spanish Parliament, in Madrid.
This event created an international forum dedicated to the analysis and promotion of degrowth as a political, social and economic framework to respond to the current eco-social crisis.
The event brought together researchers from academia, representatives of public institutions and local governments, civil society organisations and social movements. The sessions featured the participation of alliances and organisations such as Más allá del Crecimiento, Futuro en Común, Juventud x el Clima, Greenpeace, and the Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica, among other actors engaged in ecological transition, social justice and democratic transformation. The conference created an interdisciplinary space for dialogue between critical theory, legal and policy proposals, and concrete practices developed on the ground.
Discussions approached degrowth not merely as an academic concept, but as an emerging political and social project, examining the institutional, legal and governance arrangements required to support its implementation. Particular attention was given to strategies for advancing degrowth through public policies, especially at the local and municipal levels, including energy governance, social provisioning, care infrastructures and democratic participation.
The debates also explored the links between degrowth, social justice, climate justice and energy justice, highlighting the need for redistributive policies, democratic control over resources and a reorientation of economic priorities beyond GDP growth. Furthermore, the role of deliberative and participatory spaces such as this conference was emphasised as crucial for building alliances between social movements, policymakers and public institutions, enabling the translation of degrowth principles into concrete public agendas.
Yuly’s participation contributes to the research activities of the DELaw project, contributing to her specific focus about how post-growth approaches can be embedded within legal frameworks and public policymaking processes in the Spanish and Portuguese contexts, with a particular focus on energy law, governance and just transition pathways.
