Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina; Barca, Stefania; Paulsson, Alexander

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities. In the past decade, degrowth has gained momentum and become an umbrella term for various social movements which strive for ecologically sustainable and socially just alternatives that would transform the world we live in.

How to move forward in an informed way, without reproducing the existing hierarchies and injustices? How not to end up in a situation when ecological sustainability is the prerogative of the privileged, direct democracy is ignorant of environmental issues, and localisation of production is xenophobic? These are some of the questions that have inspired this edited collection.

Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786608970
• Artikelnr.: 58395339

Autorenporträt

Ekaterina Chertkovskaya is a Researcher in Degrowth and Critical Organisation Studies based at Lund University and a member of the editorial collective of ephemera journal. Alexander Paulsson is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University School of Economics and Management. Stefania Barca is an environmental historian and Senior Researcher, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Heterodox political economy and the critique of growth /1. From numbers to words: The transforming critique of growth in the wake of the golden years of capitalism
Alexander Paulsson / 2. Reorienting comparative political economy: From economic growth to sustainable alternatives
Hubert Buch-Hansen / 3. André Gorz's political ecology
Emanuele Leonardi / 4. The growth discourse in Marx's critique of political economy
Max Koch / 5. Unsettling degrowth genealogies: What do feminists bring to the table?
Stefania Barca
Catia Gregoratti & Riya Raphael / 6. Decolonising degrowth: Contesting closures
Riya Raphael /Part II: De/growth in the 'emerging' economies / 7. Degrowth in theory
growth pursuit in action: Bringing degrowth debates into the Russian context
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya / 8. Growth discourse and degrowth alternatives in Turkey
Mine Islar / 9. Degrowth in the Global South: A perspective from South Africa
Vasna Ramasar / 10. Growth
degrowth and decolonial resistance in Brazil
Felipe Milanez Pereira / Part III: The politics of transformation / 11. Waiting for degrowth: How to think about the anticipated decline of economic affluence
Alf Hornborg / 12. Fascist self-sufficiency: A historical exploration of the 'autarky' concept
Santiago Gorostiza / 13. Vade retro
Giacomo D'Alisa / 14. Meaningfulness
relationality
happiness and degrowth: A creative inquiry
Filka Sekulova