Degrowth : a Vocabulary for a New Era / edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

D'Alisa, Giacomo, editor.

Demaria, Federico, editor.

Kallis, Giorgos, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economic development.

Stagnation (Economics).

Poverty.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust. When the language in use is inadequate to articulate what begs to be articulated, then it is time for a new vocabulary. A movement of activists and intellectuals, first starting in France and then spreading to the rest of the word has called for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. "Degrowth" ("Décroissance") has come to signify for them the desired direction of societies that will use less natural resources and will organize to live radically differently. "Simplicity", "conviviality", "autonomy", "care", "the commons" and "dépense", the social and ritual destruction of accumulated surplus, are some of the words that express what a degrowth society might look like. Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth. It presents and explains the different lines of thought, imaginaries, and proposed courses of action that together complete the degrowth puzzle. The book brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only believe that another world is possible, but work and struggle to construct it right now. Join our book community at www.degrowthvocabulary.net for more material and conversations."-- Provided by publisher.

"We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: degrowth / Giorgos Kallis, Federico Demaria and Giacomo D'Alisa

Anti-utilitarianism / Onofrio Romano

Bioeconomics / Mauro Bonaiuti

Development, critiques of / Arturo Escobar

Environmental justice / Isabellle Anguelovski

Environmentalism, currents of / Joan Martinez-Alier

Metabolism, societal / Alevgül H. Şorman

Political ecology / Susan Paulson

Steady state economics / Joshua Farley

Autonomy / Marco Deriu

Capitalism / Diego Andreucci and Terrence McDonough

Care / Giacomo D' Alisa, Marco Deriu and Federico Demaria

Commodification / Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Commodity frontiers / Marta Conde and Mariana Walter

Commons / Silke Helfrich and David Bollier

Conviviality / Marco Deriu

Dematerialization / Sylvia Lorek

Dépense / Onofrio Romano

Depoliticization ('the political') / Erik Swyngedouw

Disaster, pedagogy of / Serge Latouche

Entropy ; Emergy / Sergio Ulgiati

Gross domestic product / Dan O'Neill

Growth / Peter A. Victor

Happiness / Filka Sekulova

Imaginary, decolonization of / Serge Latouche

Jevons' paradox / Blake Alcott

Neo-Malthusians / Joan Martinez-Alier

Peak-oil / Christian Kerschner

Simplicity / Samuel Alexander

Social limits of growth / Giorgos Kallis

Back-to-the-landers / Rita Calvário and Iago Otero

Basic and maximum income / Samuel Alexander

Community currencies / Kristofer Dittmer

Co-operatives / Nadia Johanisova, Ruben Suriñach Padilla and Philippa Parry

Debt audit / Sergi Cutillas, David Llistar and Gemma Tarafa

Digital commons / Mayo Fuster Morell

Disobedience / Xavier Renou

Eco-communities / Claudio Cattaneo

Indignados (Occupy) / Viviana Asara and Barbara Muraca

Job guarantee / B.J. Unti

Money, public / Mary Mellor

New economy / Tim Jackson

Nowtopians / Cris Carlsson

Post-normal science / Giacomo D' Alisa and Giorgos Kallis

Unions / Denis Bayon

Urban gardening / Isabelle Anguelovski

Work sharing / Juliet B. Schor

Buen Vivir / Eduardo Gudynas

Economy of permanence / Chiara Corazza and Solomon Victus

Feminist economics / Antonella Picchio

Ubuntu / Mogobe B. Ramose

Epilogue: from austerity to dépense / Giacomo D'Alisa, Giorgos Kallis and Federico Demaria.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781138000766

1138000760

9781138000773

1138000779

OCLC:

879538910