Making Transformative Geographies : : Lessons from Stuttgart's Community Economy / / Benedikt Schmid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• Funder: der Universität Luxembourg (Department of Geography and Spatial Planning)
• VerfasserIn: Schmid, Benedikt,
• Author: der Universität Luxembourg (Department of Geography and Spatial Planning)
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: From a growing economy to a-growth economies --; Outline --; Chapter 1: Growth in the Capitalocene --; Chapter 2: Alternative economies --; Chapter 3: Transformation, transition, and agency --; Interlude I: Geographies of change --; Part II: Transformative geographies: space, politics and change --; Chapter 4: Reimagining togetherness --; Chapter 5: Materialization --; Chapter 6: Scale and power in transformative geographies --; Chapter 7: From transformative geographies to a degrowth transition --; Interlude II: Strategies for transformation --; Part III: Researching transformative geographies --; Chapter 8: A practice theory methodology --; Chapter 9: Planning and conducting research on a degrowth case study --; Chapter 10: Research as practice --; Chapter 11: Data analysis --; Part IV: Stuttgart’s community economy --; Of infidels and agnostics --; Chapter 12: Alternatives --; Chapter 13: Constraints --; Chapter 14: Enablement --; Chapter 15: Compromise --; Interlude III: Of transition --; Part V: A degrowth transition in practice --; Chapter 16: Sketching a degrowth transition --; Chapter 17: Degrowth practices --; Chapter 18: Degrowth organizations --; Chapter 19: Degrowth strategies --; Chapter 20: Transformative geographies and socio-spatial strategies --; Concluding thoughts on making transformative geographies --; Acknowledgements --; References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839451403; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704754; 9783110704556; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839451403?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Benedikt Schmid.

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, Benedikt Schmid speaks about the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond growth-based economies. Covering an empirical sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart (Germany), the study drills down into the social, spatial, and strategic dimensions of transformation. It advances a conceptually and empirically grounded assessment of the possibilities and limitations of community activism and civil engagement in shifting transformative geographies towards a degrowth trajectory.