Degrowth : a vocabulary for a new era

By G. D’Alisa, F. Demaria, G. Kallis. 2015

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"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. When the language in use is inadequate to articulate what begs to be articulated, then it is time for a new vocabulary. A movement of activists and intellectuals, first starting in France and then spreading to the rest of the word has called for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. "Degrowth" ("Decroissance") has come to signify for them the desired direction of societies that will use less natural resources and will organize to live radically differently. "Simplicity", "conviviality", "autonomy", "care", "the commons" and "depense", the social and ritual destruction of accumulated surplus, are some of the words that express what a degrowth society might look like. Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth. It presents and explains the different lines of thought, imaginaries, and proposed courses of action that together complete the degrowth puzzle. The book brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only believe that another world is possible, but work and struggle to construct it right now. Join our book community at www.degrowthvocabulary.net for more material and conversations. "--

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Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field (2021, background): “1 Taken here to include degrowth (D’Alisa et al., 2015), the new economics of”
Ecological Macroeconomic Models: Assessing Current Developments (2017, background): “Early roots of the concept of ecologicalmacroeconomics can be traced back to Daly (1991)who called for a research agenda on “environmental macroeconomics”, while Jackson (2009) spoke explicitly of the need for an “ecological macroeconomics”.”
In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy (2015, neutral): “2015a) and degrowth (D’Alisa et al. 2014).”
Is there a global environmental justice movement? (2016, background): “This ‘degrowth’ movement has different sources (Martinez-Alier et al. 2010; Demaria et al. 2013; D’Alisa, Demaria, and Kallis 2014; Asara et al. 2015) including the proto-ecological economist Georgescu-Roegen (1971) but also the ‘post-development’ movement of the 1980s of Ashish Nandy, Gustavo…”
An alternative policy approach to rural development in regions facing population decline (2018, background): “A great number of experts argue that this transition has to take place now (e.g. D’Alisa et al., 2015; Turok et al., 2017), meaning that building one’s life primarily upon work and economic welfare is dismissing important elements of human development and community.”
The hegemony of growth: the OECD and the making of the economic growth paradigm (2017, background): “One such idea which aims to re-politicise the much-needed debate on socio-ecological equity is degrowth (D’Alisa et al. 2014).”
Green growth or degrowth? Assessing the normative justifications for environmental sustainability and economic growth through critical social theory (2019, background): “Degrowth criticizes economic growth as a policy goal (Victor, 2010) and searches for alternative pathways for organizing social and economic life (D’Alisa et al., 2015; Demaria et al., 2013; Latouche, 2010).”
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability (2015, background): “(D’Alisa et al. 2014; Sekulova et al. 2013; Kallis et al. 2012; Kosoy 2013).”
The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “More fundamentally, scholars and activists are advocating alternative trajectories of “degrowth,” which reject the assumptions of mainstream economic thinking and seek the shrinking of production and consumption for more democratic, just, and sustainable futures (124).”