Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability. This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global. The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.
Author(s): Giacomo D’Alisa
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
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Pages: 327
Tags: Degrowth
Notes on contributors......Page 16
Preface......Page 26
Foreword......Page 30
Introduction: degrowth......Page 36
Lines of thought......Page 60
1 Anti-utilitarianism......Page 61
2Bioeconomics......Page 67
3Development, critiques of......Page 72
4Environmental justice......Page 77
5Environmentalism, currents of......Page 83
6Metabolism, societal......Page 89
7Political ecology......Page 94
8Steady state economics......Page 100
The core......Page 105
9Autonomy......Page 106
10Capitalism......Page 112
11Care......Page 118
12Commodification......Page 123
13Commodity frontiers......Page 128
14Commons......Page 133
15Conviviality......Page 138
16Dematerialization......Page 144
17Dépense......Page 149
18Depoliticization (‘the political’)......Page 155
19Disaster, pedagogy of......Page 161
20Entropy......Page 165
21Emergy......Page 169
22Gross domestic product......Page 174
23Growth......Page 180
24Happiness......Page 185
25Imaginary, decolonization of......Page 191
26Jevons’ paradox......Page 196
27Neo-Malthusians......Page 201
28Peak-oil......Page 207
29Simplicity......Page 212
30Social limits of growth......Page 217
The action......Page 222
31Back-to-the-landers......Page 223
32Basic and maximum income......Page 227
33Community currencies......Page 231
34Co-operatives......Page 235
35Debt audit......Page 240
36Digital commons......Page 244
37Disobedience......Page 248
38Eco-communities......Page 253
39Indignados (Occupy)......Page 258
40Job guarantee......Page 263
41Money, public......Page 268
42New economy......Page 272
43Nowtopians......Page 277
44Post-normal science......Page 281
45Unions......Page 286
46Urban gardening......Page 291
47Work sharing......Page 295
Alliances......Page 299
48Buen Vivir......Page 300
49Economy of permanence......Page 306
50Feminist economics......Page 311
51Ubuntu......Page 316
Epilogue: from austerity to dépense......Page 320
