De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth

Published by De Gruyter 2024

De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth

Edited by: Lauren Eastwood and Kai Heron

In the series De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778359

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About this book

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.

Provides contributions from both advocates and critics of degrowth.

Includes contributions from a wide range of fields across the social sciences.

Maps the growing importance and influence of degrowth across multiple disciplines.

Author / Editor information

Lauren Eastwood is a senior researcher at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, where she leads the policy field of Global Governance of Climate Change and Sustainability. She is also Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. She has gathered ethnographic data over 25 years at more than 50 UN meetings in order to analyze the making of policy pertaining to climate, biological diversity, forests, and Indigenous peoples. She also engages in research on the increasing criminalization of anti-fossil-fuel infrastructure activism.

Kai Heron is a lecturer in political ecology at Lancaster University. He has research interests in the politics of land, agriculture, green transitions, and contemporary political theory. He is a founding member of Abundance, a participatory action cooperative that seeks to democratize the economy by expanding the commons.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Foreword Jason Hickel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction – Degrowth: Swimming Against the Ideological Tide Kai Heron and Lauren Eastwood Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Part I: Degrowth Agendas
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
1 ‘Without Growth, Everything is Nothing’: On the Origins of Growthism Matthias Schmelzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 Degrowth: Monetary and Nonmonetary Economies Anitra Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 Critiques of Work: The Radical Roots of Degrowth Maja Hoffmann, Maro Pantazidou and Tone Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 Cultural Political Economy and Degrowth Politics Matthew Paterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 Sustainable Welfare: Decoupling Welfare from Growth and Prioritising Needs Satisfaction for All Milena Büchs, Max Koch and Jayeon Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part II: Degrowth in Practice
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6 How and Who? The Debate About a Strategy for Degrowth Nathan Barlow, Merle Schulken and Christina Plank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7 Translating Degrowth: From Policy Proposals to Praxis Nick Fitzpatrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8 Living in Abundance: Tool Libraries for Convivial Degrowth Sabrina Chakori and Shane Hopkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
9 Materialising Degrowth Agrifood Architecture with Earth Artemis Theodorou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10 They Want Us to Live in Caves: Degrowth and the Housing Question Harry Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Part III: The Urban and the Rural
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11 The Case for Solidary Degrowth Spaces. Five Propositions on the Challenging Project of Spatialising Degrowth Karl Krähmer and Anton Brokow-Loga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12 Urban Degrowth Benedikt Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
13 Land Commodification: A Structural Barrier to Degrowth Transition Alex Baumann, Samuel Alexander and Peter Burdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
14 Agroecology as Degrowth in Practice: Resistance Rooted in Human- Nature Relationality Chloe Broadfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
15 Organising Nature Through Urban Gardening Bjørn Inge Melås Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Part IV: Critical Connections
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16 Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth Anna-Maria Köhnke, Aino Ursula Mäki and Sherilyn MacGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
17 Dependency, Delinking and Degrowth in a New Developmental Era: Debates from Argentina Mariano Féliz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
18 Degrowth and Psychoanalysis: From Transition to Transformation Shivani Kaul and Julien-François Gerber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
19 Degrowth Disagreements with Marxism: Critical Perspectives on the Fetishisation of Value and Productivity Alf Hornborg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
20 Not Just Newer, but Fewer: A Bridge Between Ecomodernism and Degrowth? James Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Part V: Degrowth and the Global South
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21 From Marxist Development Theories to Their Translation in the Degrowth Discourse: Transforming Unequal International Structures for Environmental Sustainability Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez and Maria Kaufmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
22 Radical Ecological Democracy: Reflections from the South on Degrowth Ashish Kothari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
23 Degrowth Beyond the Metropole: Theory and Praxis for a Revolutionary Degrowth Barbara Magalhães Teixeira and Başak Koşanay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
24 Growing Degrowth: Alliances with Environmental Movements in the Global South Linda Thorpe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
25 ‘For the Greater Good’– Green Sacrifice Zones and Subaltern Resistance: The Politics and Potential of Degrowth and Post-Extractivist Futures Ciarán Ó’Briain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
About the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and postgraduate students of degrowth as well as institutional libraries.
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 485
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 24
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Degrowth; Consumption; Environment; Political ecology; Sustainability

eBook

Published: March 4, 2024
ISBN: 9783110778359

Hardcover

Published: March 4, 2024
ISBN: 9783110778038