Dialogues for degrowth : transdisciplinary perspectives for sustainable and inclusive futures / edited by Ksenija Hanaček, Marula Tsagkari and Brototi Roy (Postdoctoral Fellows, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain and Research&Degrowth International).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanaček, Ksenija, editor.

Tsagkari, Marula, editor.

Roy, Brototi, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Patriarchy.

Imperialism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"This essential book explores a diverse array of perspectives on degrowth, a movement critical of the global capitalist system pursuing economic growth at all costs. Contributing authors provide insights into the connections between degrowth and fields such as art, architecture, literature, and post-development, setting an agenda for future research. Bringing together theories from different research backgrounds, chapters engage with degrowth in the context of dance, migration, strategy games, fashion, and solarpunk among others. The book also investigates the impact of capitalist-colonial-patriarchal hierarchies on relationships at the personal and global level, reflecting on key forms of resistance and highlighting opportunities to break away from colonial legacies. Ultimately, authors emphasize the indispensable role of degrowth strategies in cultivating an inclusive and sustainable future based on justice and equity. Students and scholars of economics, geography, politics, and sustainability studies will benefit from this book's forward-thinking analysis of degrowth. Its interdisciplinary focus also makes this a valuable resource for academics in fields such as architecture, feminist and queer studies, and literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: Interdisciplinary perspectives for sustainable and inclusive futures / Marula Tsagkari, Ksenija Hanaček, and Brototi Roy

Part I: Waves of degrowth

1. Accounting for coloniality: The case for structural colonial and climate reparations / Morena Hanbury Lemos

2. Just work for a just transition? Degrowth and the future of dignified work / Riya Raphael

3. Degrowth at the queer cafe / Lena Weber

4. Blue degrowth at the crossroads: Contesting the oceanic sustainable development paradigm / Borja Nogué-Algueró, Maria Hadjimichael, and Irmak Ertör Dialogue on waves of degrowth / Borja Nogué-Algueró, Lena Weber, Riya Raphael, Morena Hanbury Lemos, Tonny Nowshin, Marula Tsagkari, Ksenija Hanaček and Brototi Roy

Part II: Engaging degrowth with old and new stories and practices

5. Rethinking the role of the past for a degrowth transition with walter benjamin: A postfigurative approach / Lucía Muñoz Sueiro

6. Analysing the circular economy as a myth / Sofia Rafaella Greaves

7. Let's draw: Spoken poetry as a form of resistance in inner mongolia / Jesse Segura

8. Dancing degrowth: 'fleshing out' a new economy / Julia Pond Dialogue on engaging degrowth with old and new stories and practices / Lucia Mu-oz-Sueiro, Sofia Rafaella Greaves, Jesse Segura, Julia Pond, Marula Tsagkari, Ksenija Hanaček and Brototi Roy

Part III: Degrowth through strategy, design, and imagination

9. Quilombola communities and degrowth: An architectural contribution / Franciney Carreiro de França

10. Fashion and degrowth: Contradiction? Exploring interpretations and functions of fashion / Anikó Gál

11. Imagining the degrowth strategy game / Carlos Moreno Azqueta

12. Solarpunk: Utopian realism as a degrowth aesthetic or why degrowthers should be solarpunks / Lee Amaduzzi Dialogue on degrowth through strategy, design, and imagination / Franciney Carreiro de França, Anikó Gál, Carlos Moreno Azqueta, Lee Amaduzzi, Marula Tsagkari, Ksenija Hanaček and Brototi Roy

Part IV: Transversal structural transformations of degrowth

13. The global food predicament: Insights into overcoming the capitalist structures and dynamics / Arpita Bisht

14. Reflections on migration, degrowth and post-development / Cláudia Santos

15. Just friends: Intimate relations in a degrowth future / Nora Krenmayr, Monika Austaller and Luzia Strasser

16. Unlearning as education practice: Exploring learning conditions that support transformation / Isabel Chender Dialogue on transversal structural transformations of degrowth / Arpita Bisht, Isabel Chender, Nora Krenmayr, Cludia Santos, Marula Tsagkari, Ksenija Hanaček and Brototi Roy

Epilogue: What lies ahead in the path to globally just world making / Tonny Nowshin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035320776 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.