Exploring Degrowth (eBook)

A Critical Guide

Vincent Liegey, Anitra (University of Melbourne) Nelson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
224 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-760-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An introduction to the degrowth movement worldwide

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A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth's limits.This book navigates the practice and strategies of the movement, looking at its strengths and weaknesses. Covering horizontal democracy, local economies and the reduction of work, it shows us why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project.

Autoren

lt;p>Vincent Liegey is an engineer and independent researcher who joined the French Degrowth movement in 2007, participating in political debates on degrowth as spokesperson of the French Degrowth Party (2008–2012). He co-authored A Degrowth Project (2013, Edition Utopia).

Vincent Liegey is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissance (Editions Utopia, 2013). He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia — a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest.

Anitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto, 2018) and is co-editor of Food for Degrowth (Routledge, 2020) with Ferne Edwards.

Inhalt

Foreword by Jason Hickel

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Exploring 'Degrowth'

2. Decolonising Our Growth Imaginaries

3. Degrowth in Practice

4. Political Strategies for Degrowth

5. The Degrowth Project: A Work in Progress

Postface: 'Now Is the Time of Monsters'

Appendix 1: A Platform for Degrowth

Appendix 2: The Content of the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance

Appendix 3: Implementing the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance: Transitionary Steps Notes

Selected Further Reading and Links

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2020
• Reihe/Serie: FireWorks
• Reihe/Serie: FireWorks
• Vorwort: Jason Hickel
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: basic income • Cargonomia • Community Education • Conviviality • degrowth practitioners • Ecological economics • Equity • frugal abundance • International Degrowth Conference • Localising economies • New Economic Foundation • open relocalisation • Participatory Democracy • planetary limits • Postcapitalism • postgrowth • Scarcity • sustainability • System change • Tim Jackson • voluntary simplicity
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-760-2 / 1786807602
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-760-1 / 9781786807601