Degrowth - A Vocabulary for a New Era (Hardcover)


We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust.

When the language in use is inadequate to articulate what begs to be articulated, then it is time for a new vocabulary. A movement of activists and intellectuals, first starting in France and then spreading to the rest of the world, has called for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. "Degrowth" (""Decroissance"") has come to signify for them the desired direction of societies that will use less natural resources and will organize to live radically differently. "Simplicity," "conviviality," "autonomy," "care," "the commons" and "depense," the social and ritual destruction of accumulated surplus, are some of the words that express what a degrowth society might look like.

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Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era" is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth. It presents and explains the different lines of thought, imaginaries, and proposed courses of action that together complete the degrowth puzzle. The book brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only believe that another world is possible, but work and struggle to construct it right now.

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We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust.

When the language in use is inadequate to articulate what begs to be articulated, then it is time for a new vocabulary. A movement of activists and intellectuals, first starting in France and then spreading to the rest of the world, has called for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. "Degrowth" (""Decroissance"") has come to signify for them the desired direction of societies that will use less natural resources and will organize to live radically differently. "Simplicity," "conviviality," "autonomy," "care," "the commons" and "depense," the social and ritual destruction of accumulated surplus, are some of the words that express what a degrowth society might look like.

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Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era" is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth. It presents and explains the different lines of thought, imaginaries, and proposed courses of action that together complete the degrowth puzzle. The book brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only believe that another world is possible, but work and struggle to construct it right now.

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Imprint

Routledge

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

November 2014

Availability

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First published

2015

Editors

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Dimensions

234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

220

ISBN-13

978-1-138-00076-6

Barcode

9781138000766

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LSN

1-138-00076-0



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