Post-growth geographies : : spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies / / Bastian Lange [and three others], editors.

• Superior document: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; Volume 49,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lange, Bastian,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Transcript,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; Volume 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (430 p.); 838 MB 17 SW-Abbildungen, 13 Farbabbildungen

Post-Growth Geographies examines the spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions from geography and its neighbouring disciplines and offers different perspectives on the possibilities, demands and critiques of post-growth transformation. Through case studies and interviews, the contributions combine voices from activism, civil society, planning and politics with current theoretical debates on socio-ecological transformation.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Inhalt -- Post-growth geographies Conceptual and thematic cornerstones of this book -- I. Spaces of Perspective -- Using socio-spatial concepts of situatedness to explain work processes in the context of post-growth economies -- Spatial strategies for a post-growth transformation -- Reducing working hours in small enterprises as a post-growth practice? -- Lessons from Practice -- The emancipatory project of degrowth -- Degrowth A kind of pragmatic utopian thinking, re-politicising humanistic debates -- II. Spaces of Possibility -- Growth independence through social innovations? An analysis of potential growth effects of social innovations in a Swiss mountain region -- Criteria for post-growth residential development: The example of the city of Zurich -- Makerspaces Third places for a sustainable (post-growth) society? -- Performing gaps The relationship between alternative economies and urban planning in Dortmund -- Town and countryside in flux The significance of urban functions for the vitality of rural areas and the importance of individual and systemic solutions for the realisation of a growth-critical way of life -- Lessons from Practice -- The role of interstitial spaces in the growing urban region of Hamburg -- 'Hobbyhimmel' - an open workshop in the context of post-growth -- Neighbourhood farms as new places for participation and grow-your-own -- III. Spaces of Conflict -- Provincialising degrowth Alternatives to development and the Global South -- Financing post-growth? Green financial products for changed logics of production -- 'Status quo avant-gardists' and 'prevention innovators' Food for thought for the geographical post-growth debate -- The growth fixation of the European Union A commentary on the draft Green Deal -- Lessons from Practice -- We have a responsibility to a be a bit more pragmatic.

We should continue this dialogue with the EU institutions -- IV. Spaces of Design -- Spatial transformations: Process, goal, guideline? -- Cornerstones and positions of a precautionary post-growth economy The end of the model of growing prosperity -- New roles in collective, growth-independent spatial organisation -- The Bauhaus as a designer of transition Post-growth approaches in East Germany after reunification - between false growth and unwanted non-growth -- Lessons from Practice -- Post-growth perspectives for the Lausitz lignite mining region? - Opportunities and challenges -- Hacking Ulm Open data, digital literacy and coding as practices creating space in the city -- Designing living spaces together in open-ended approaches Participation in spatial development for a good life -- Opening up spaces of possibility with artistic experiments -- Authors.