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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Outline -- 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 -- Outline -- 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 -- Outline -- 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 -- Outline -- 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