Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth

By V. Fournier. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability (2015, background): “Escaping the ‘tyranny’ of economic growth means opposing economism as a thinking and behavioural paradigm and root ourselves in the terrain of the political (Fournier 2008).”
Social enterprises and non-market capitals: a path to degrowth? (2013, background): “(Heilbroner, 1986: 165). in the monetised sector (top cake layers) while at the same time fostering poverty in the non-monetised sectors (bottom cake layers).15 A critical approach towards the commodification process is espoused also by the degrowth movement (Fournier, 2008).”
Research On Degrowth (2018, unknown): “…examining the ideology of growth-based development as a Western myth that naturalizes sociohistorical processes as unidirectional, continuous, downscaling energy and resource use, but also about an overall project of exiting economism (9), that is, decolonizing the social imaginary and liberating”
In defence of degrowth (2011, background): “The movement for degrowth is much more in accordance with Korten's model of revolutionary social change (Fournier, 2008; Baykan, 2007), than the more technocratic model underlying van den Bergh's view.”
Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue (2010, background): “Finally, degrowth is offered as a social choice, not imposed as an external imperative for environmental or other reasons [40].”
Local currencies for purposive degrowth? A quality check of some proposals for changing money-as-usual (2013, background): “Finally, “the localisation of exchange, production, finance and politics is seen as ‘the most important strategic means’ of degrowth” (Fournier, 2008: 538 citing Latouche).”
Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals (2017, background): “For characterizing the theoretical pillar of degrowth it is important to differentiate between the French décroissance movement (see Fournier, 2008) and the sustainable degrowth literature, mostly explored in the ecological economics field of research (see Kallis, 2011).”
Environment versus growth — A criticism of "degrowth" and a plea for "a-growth" (2011, background): “Fournier (2008) has called it “escaping from the [capitalist] economy.””