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Making Transformative Geographies Lessons from Stuttgart's Community Economy Benedikt Schmid
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EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Schmid, Benedikt <p>Benedikt Schmid, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; Volume 37.
- Sozial- und Kulturgeographie
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainability.
- Transformation.
- Ecological Economics.
- Activism.
- Critical Theory.
- Economy.
- Space.
- Society.
- Social Geography.
- Economic Sociology.
- Neoliberalism.
- Geography.
- Local Subjects:
- Sustainability.
- Transformation.
- Ecological Economics.
- Activism.
- Critical Theory.
- Economy.
- Space.
- Society.
- Social Geography.
- Economic Sociology.
- Neoliberalism.
- Geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Schmid, Making Transformative Geographies Lessons from Stuttgart's Community Economy
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Benedikt Schmid holds a doctorate in geography from the University of Luxembourg and is a post-doctoral researcher at the chair of Geography of Global Change at the University of Freiburg. His research focuses on the role of community initiatives and social enterprises for the transition towards a post-growth economy.
- Summary:
- In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity and ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, »Making Transformative Geographies« speaks about the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond accumulation and growth. Covering an empirical sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart (Germany), the book drills down into the social, spatial, and strategic dimensions of transformation. It advances a conceptually and empirically grounded assessment of the possibilities and limitations of community activism and civic engagement for shifting transformative geographies towards a degrowth trajectory.
- Besprochen in:ORLIS, 9 (2020)www.kommunalweb.de, 9 (2020)Urban Geography, 27.01.2021, Ella HubbardEurasian Geography and Economics, 63/1 (2022), Jan Bartsch/Markus Sattler
- »By looking in depth at these eco-social organizations, this book gives careful hope and carves strategies for radical trajectories, becoming an important addition to discussions around degrowth and post-capitalist geographies.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 9 Outline 23 Chapter 1: Growth in the Capitalocene 25 Chapter 2: Alternative economies 39 Chapter 3: Transformation, transition, and agency 51 Interlude I: Geographies of change 69 Outline 77 Chapter 4: Reimagining togetherness 79 Chapter 5: Materialization 93 Chapter 6: Scale and power in transformative geographies 107 Chapter 7: From transformative geographies to a degrowth transition 115 Interlude II: Strategies for transformation 125 Outline 131 Chapter 8: A practice theory methodology 133 Chapter 9: Planning and conducting research on a degrowth case study 137 Chapter 10: Research as practice 155 Chapter 11: Data analysis 161 Outline 177 Of infidels and agnostics 178 Chapter 12: Alternatives 181 Chapter 13: Constraints 195 Chapter 14: Enablement 207 Chapter 15: Compromise 215 Interlude III: Of transition 223 Outline 231 Chapter 16: Sketching a degrowth transition 235 Chapter 17: Degrowth practices 253 Chapter 18: Degrowth organizations 261 Chapter 19: Degrowth strategies 269 Chapter 20: Transformative geographies and socio-spatial strategies 279 Concluding thoughts on making transformative geographies 289 Acknowledgements 303 References 309
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Université du Luxembourg 2019
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-338).
- ISBN:
- 9783839451403
- 383945140X
- OCLC:
- 1158215568
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