Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-64524-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

This handbook takes stock of ‘degrowth’, a concept and movement, gaining increasing visibility in the 2020s. Contributors explain contexts for degrowth’s significance, elaborate its diverse history and detail its unique approaches, practices, challenges and potential futures. Part I sets the ecological, economic and political contexts framing degrowth’s evolution as a significant concept for societies facing the challenges of deepening socio-political inequities and ecological unsustainabilities.

Part II identifies themes characterising degrowth movements in a sample of distinctive countries, starting with its origins in France. Part III shows degrowth ‘concepts in action’, explaining in practical ways the meanings of terms such as ‘conviviality’, ‘degrowth doughnut’, ‘frugal abundance’, ‘commoning’ and ‘defashioning’. Part IV offers analyses and forward-looking imaginaries for degrowth from the perspectives of distinctive agents, agendas and theoretical frameworks. Contributors engage with ecofeminist futures, utopian thought and show how degrowth is necessary to address poverty.

Highly experienced and knowledgeable contributors from varied scholarly and practitioner fields address a range of strategic, activist, policy, and research questions in this handbook. Grounded in empirical cases they identify significant social and ecological challenges, relevant to students, researchers, activists, policy-makers and practitioners at various levels within the wide range of fields in which degrowth can be applied.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Anitra

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The current growth conjuncture  1. Degrowth has come of age 2. Fossilised metabolism: The social ecology of capitalist growth 3. Unequal uses of Earth 4. Capitalist crisis and affective alternatives  Part II. Degrowth: Origins and steppingstones  5. The French origins and pillars of degrowth 6. Degrowth in Italy: Early beginnings, political disputes and a plural social movement 7. Postwachstum: German roots and currents of degrowth 8. A Catalan way towards degrowth 9. Accidental degrowth practices: Illustrations from Czechia 10. Greece: Real-existing degrowth and its challenges 11. Degrowth’ and the implications of English language hegemony 12. Latin American indigenous perspectives meet degrowth 13. Degrowth in an African periphery: From necrocapitalism to a pluriverse of nowtopias  Part III. Degrowth practices: Concepts in action  14. Conviviality and commoning 15. Autonomy and freedom in individual to societal transformation 16. The degrowth doughnut 17. Frugal abundance: Meaning in practice in an Icelandic village 18. Defining defashion: A manifesto for degrowth 19. Degrowth: Health and healthcare 20. Holistic care economies: Degrowth ways of provisioning and the Global East 21. The pedagogy of degrowth and the political ecology of technology 22. Mapping the spectrum of degrowth work 23. Reimagining collaboration: Degrowth practitioners, scholars and activists  Part IV. Degrowth futures: Perspectives and strategies  24. Twenty years of degrowth: What has been achieved? 25. Roles of utopian thought in a degrowth transformation 26. Growth, degrowth and poverty reduction 27. Imperial and solidary modes of living: Alternatives to eco-imperialism 28. Prefigurative degrowth politics: Decolonisation and the nonaligned movement 29. Ecofeminist and decolonial feminist degrowth futures 30. Fostering degrowth in men: Beyond masculinity and the gender binary 31. Degrowth, urbanisation and spatial planning  32. Degrowth-aligned commoning organisations 33. Ecosocialism and degrowth 34. Beyond growth: Beyond divisions 35. Degrowth: Future research directions

Über Autor(innen)

Anitra Nelson is an activist scholar and Honorary Principal Fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne (Australia). Among numerous degrowth publications, she is co-editor of Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities (2018) and Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices (2021) collections, and co-author of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020). See https://anitranelson.info/

Vincent Liegey (Editorial Advisor) is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer on degrowth. He has co-authored several books on degrowth including Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020), and Décroissance, Fake or Not (2022). He is one of the coordinators of the international degrowth conferences and of Cargonomia, a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth in Budapest.