De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth / / ed. by Lauren Eastwood, Kai Heron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Alenda-Demoutiez, Juliette,; Alexander, Samuel,; Barlow, Nathan,; Baumann, Alex,; Broadfield, Chloe,; Brokow-Loga, Anton,; Burdon, Peter,; Büchs, Milena,; Chakori, Sabrina,; Eastwood, Lauren,; Fitzpatrick, Nick,; Féliz, Mariano,; Gerber, Julien-François,; Heron, Kai,; Hickel, Jason,; Hoffmann, Maja,; Holmes, Harry,; Hopkinson, Shane,; Hornborg, Alf,; Inge Melås, Bjørn,; Jackson, James,; Kaufmann, Maria,; Kaul, Shivani,; Koch, Max,; Kothari, Ashish,; Koşanay, Başak,; Krähmer, Karl,; Köhnke, Anna-Maria,; Lee, Jayeon,; MacGregor, Sherilyn,; Magalhães Teixeira, Barbara,; Mäki, Aino Ursula,; Nelson, Anitra,; Pantazidou, Maro,; Paterson, Matthew,; Plank, Christina,; Schmelzer, Matthias,; Schmid, Benedikt,; Schulken, Merle,; Smith, Tone,; Theodorou, Artemis,; Thorpe, Linda,; Ó’Briain, Ciarán,
• HerausgeberIn: Eastwood, Lauren,; Heron, Kai,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 485 p.)

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 cou...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction – Degrowth: Swimming Against the Ideological Tide
• Part I: Degrowth Agendas
• Introduction
• 1 ‘Without Growth, Everything is Nothing’: On the Origins of Growthism
• 2 Degrowth: Monetary and Nonmonetary Economies
• 3 Critiques of Work: The Radical Roots of Degrowth
• 4 Cultural Political Economy and Degrowth Politics
• 5 Sustainable Welfare: Decoupling Welfare from Growth and Prioritising Needs Satisfaction for All
• Part II: Degrowth in Practice
• Introduction
• 6 How and Who? The Debate About a Strategy for Degrowth
• 7 Translating Degrowth: From Policy Proposals to Praxis
• 8 Living in Abundance: Tool Libraries for Convivial Degrowth
• 9 Materialising Degrowth Agrifood Architecture with Earth
• 10 They Want Us to Live in Caves: Degrowth and the Housing Question
• Part III: The Urban and the Rural
• Introduction
• 11 The Case for Solidary Degrowth Spaces. Five Propositions on the Challenging Project of Spatialising Degrowth
• 12 Urban Degrowth
• 13 Land Commodification: A Structural Barrier to Degrowth Transition
• 14 Agroecology as Degrowth in Practice: Resistance Rooted in Human- Nature Relationality
• 15 Organising Nature Through Urban Gardening
• Part IV: Critical Connections
• Introduction
• 16 Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth
• 17 Dependency, Delinking and Degrowth in a New Developmental Era: Debates from Argentina
• 18 Degrowth and Psychoanalysis: From Transition to Transformation
• 19 Degrowth Disagreements with Marxism: Critical Perspectives on the Fetishisation of Value and Productivity
• 20 Not Just Newer, but Fewer: A Bridge Between Ecomodernism and Degrowth?
• Part V: Degrowth and the Global South
• Introduction
• 21 From Marxist Development Theories to Their Translation in the Degrowth Discourse: Transforming Unequal International Structures for Environmental Sustainability
• 22 Radical Ecological Democracy: Reflections from the South on Degrowth
• 23 Degrowth Beyond the Metropole: Theory and Praxis for a Revolutionary Degrowth
• 24 Growing Degrowth: Alliances with Environmental Movements in the Global South
• 25 ‘For the Greater Good’– Green Sacrifice Zones and Subaltern Resistance: The Politics and Potential of Degrowth and Post-Extractivist Futures
• List of Figures
• About the Editors
• Index