"We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust"--
Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.
This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.
The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.
More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.org
Preface Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgios Kallis Foreword
Francois Schneider and Fabrice Flipo
Introduction: Degrowth Giorgios Kallis, Federico Demaria, Giacomo D'Alisa
Part 1: Lines of thought 1.Anti-utilitarianism: Onofrio Romano
2.
Bio-economics: Mauro Bonaiuti
3. Development, Critiques of: Arturo Escobar
4.
Environmental Justice: Isabelle Anguelovski
5. Environmentalism, Currents of:
Joan Martinez-Alier
6. Metabolism, Societal: Alevgul Sorman
7. Political
ecology: Susan Paulson
8. Steady-state economics: Joshua Farley
Part 2: The core
9. Autonomy: Marco Deriu
10. Capitalism: Diego Andreucci and
Terrence McDonough
11. Care: Marco Deriu, Giacomo DAlisa and Federico
Demaria
12. Commodification Erik Gomez
13. Commodity frontiers: Marta Conde
and Mariana Walter
14. Commons: Silke Helfrich and David Bollier
15.
Conviviality: Marco Deriu
16. Dematerialization: Sylvia Lorek
17. Dépense:
Onofrio Romano
18. Depoliticization ("the Political"): Erik Swyngedouw
19.
Disaster Pedagogy: Serge Latouche
20. Entropy: Sergio Ulgiati
21. Emergy:
Sergio Ulgiati
22. GDP: Daniel O'Neil
23. Growth: Peter Victor
24. Happiness:
Filka Sekulova
25. Imaginary, Decolonization of: Serge Latouche
26. Jevons'
paradox: Blake Alcott
27. Neo-Malthusians: Joan Martinez-Alier
28. Peak oil:
Christian Kerschner
29. Simplicity: Samuel Alexander
30. Social limits of
growth: Giorgos Kallis
Part 3: The Action
31. Back-to-the-landers: Rita Calvario and Iago Otero
32.
Basic and maximum income: Samuel Alexander
33. Community currencies:
Kristoffer Dittmer
34. Cooperatives: Nadia Johanisova, Ruben Surińach Padilla
and Philippa Parry
35. Debt audit: Sergi Cutillas, David Llistar and Gemma
Tarafa
36. Digital commons: Mayo Fuster Morell
37. Disobedience: Xavier Renou
38. Eco-communities: Claudio Cattaneo
39. Indignados (Occupy): Viviana Asara
and Barbara Muraca
40. Job Guarantee: Brandon Unti
41. Money, Public: Mary
Mellor
42. New Economy: Tim Jackson
43. Nowtopians: Chris Carlsson
44.
Post-normal science: Giacomo DAlisa and Giorgios Kallis
45. Unions: Denis
Bayon
46. Urban Gardening: Isabelle Anguelovski
47. Work-sharing: Juliet
Schor
Part 4: Alliances
48. Buen Vivir: Eduardo Gudynas
49. Economy of permanence:
Chiara Corazza and Victus Solomon
50. Feminist economics: Antonella Picchio
51. Ubuntu: Mogobe B. Ramose
Epilogue: From austerity to dépense: Giacomo D'Alisa, Giorgios Kallis and
Federico Demaria
Giacomo D'Alisa is Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Federico Demaria is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Giorgios Kallis is Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
The three editors are members of Research & Degrowth, www.degrowth.org
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