De Gruyter handbook of degrowth / edited by Lauren Eastwood and Kai Heron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eastwood, Lauren E., 1969- editor.

Series:

De Gruyter handbooks in business, economics and finance.

De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Negative growth (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

Degrowth has emerged as one of the most exciting, and contested, fields of research into the drivers of global heating, ecological collapse, and economic injustice. The perspective is both a critique of existing growth-based models of development, which it argues have put humanity on a collision course with non-negotiable ecological limits, and a vision for a brighter future in which humans and non-humans alike can flourish. By putting an end to growth-seeking economic development and boundless energetic and material throughputs, degrowth’s proponents suggest we can build an economy that meets the material needs of people and planet for generations to come. This handbook’s contributions signal the importance of degrowth across multiple disciplines and practices. Along the way, they grapple with some of the most critical questions, ideological assumptions, policies, and social struggles of our time. The handbook approaches degrowth as a loosely knit and developing set of interdisciplinary propositions about what it might take to achieve a world of human and non-human flourishing. Contributors explore, challenge, and critique degrowth’s propositions and its prospects of shaping scholarly agendas, policy frameworks, and social movements. Essays consider degrowth from a variety of empirical and theoretical vantages, including urban design, architecture, political economy, political ecology, critical geography, and political theory. This integrative approach, at once critical and constructive, aims to preserve for readers the sense of possibility that has drawn people to degrowth scholarship thus far.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Introduction - Degrowth: Swimming Against the Ideological Tide

Part I: Degrowth Agendas

Introduction

1 'Without Growth, Everything is Nothing': On the Origins of Growthism

2 Degrowth: Monetary and Nonmonetary Economies

3 Critiques of Work: The Radical Roots of Degrowth

4 Cultural Political Economy and Degrowth Politics

5 Sustainable Welfare: Decoupling Welfare from Growth and Prioritising Needs Satisfaction for All

Part II: Degrowth in Practice

6 How and Who? The Debate About a Strategy for Degrowth

7 Translating Degrowth: From Policy Proposals to Praxis

8 Living in Abundance: Tool Libraries for Convivial Degrowth

9 Materialising Degrowth Agrifood Architecture with Earth

10 They Want Us to Live in Caves: Degrowth and the Housing Question

Part III: The Urban and the Rural

11 The Case for Solidary Degrowth Spaces. Five Propositions on the Challenging Project of Spatialising Degrowth

12 Urban Degrowth

13 Land Commodification: A Structural Barrier to Degrowth Transition

14 Agroecology as Degrowth in Practice: Resistance Rooted in Human- Nature Relationality

15 Organising Nature Through Urban Gardening

Part IV: Critical Connections

16 Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth

17 Dependency, Delinking and Degrowth in a New Developmental Era: Debates from Argentina

18 Degrowth and Psychoanalysis: From Transition to Transformation

19 Degrowth Disagreements with Marxism: Critical Perspectives on the Fetishisation of Value and Productivity

20 Not Just Newer, but Fewer: A Bridge Between Ecomodernism and Degrowth?

Part V: Degrowth and the Global South

Introduction.

21 From Marxist Development Theories to Their Translation in the Degrowth Discourse: Transforming Unequal International Structures for Environmental Sustainability

22 Radical Ecological Democracy: Reflections from the South on Degrowth

23 Degrowth Beyond the Metropole: Theory and Praxis for a Revolutionary Degrowth

24 Growing Degrowth: Alliances with Environmental Movements in the Global South

25 'For the Greater Good'- Green Sacrifice Zones and Subaltern Resistance: The Politics and Potential of Degrowth and Post-Extractivist Futures

List of Figures

About the Editors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110778359

3110778351

9783110778472

3110778475

OCLC:

1420009711