Elliot Hurst

Elliot Hurst is a PhD scholar whose research investigates the lively socio-natural processes of wastewater infrastructure. He is currently based in Scotland, and calls Aotearoa New Zealand home. @elliotjchurst elliotjchurst.net

swimming commons

A swimming commons

Swimming can be re-politicised to create a profusion of swimming commons, that both embed the value of playful public abundance and nurture an ethic of more-than-human care.

August 26, 2020

Decolonisation and Degrowth

Why do degrowth scholars use the word “decolonise” to discuss the process of changing the growth imaginary? Isn’t decolonisation about undoing the historical colonisation of land, languages and minds? How do these two uses of the word relate?

February 7, 2018