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

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...

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Superior document:Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; Volume 49,
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : Transcript,, [2022]
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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
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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.