Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era [Hardcover]

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

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Preface Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgios KallisForeword Francois Schneider and Fabrice Flipo

Introduction: DegrowthGiorgios Kallis, Federico Demaria, Giacomo D'Alisa

Part 1: Lines of thought1.Anti-utilitarianism: Onofrio Romano2. Bio-economics: Mauro Bonaiuti3. Development, Critiques of: Arturo Escobar4. Environmental Justice: Isabelle Anguelovski5. Environmentalism, Currents of: Joan Martinez-Alier 6. Metabolism, Societal: Alevgul Sorman7. Political ecology: Susan Paulson8. Steady-state economics:Joshua Farley

Part 2: The core9. Autonomy: Marco Deriu10. Capitalism: Diego Andreucci and Terrence McDonough11. Care:Marco Deriu, Giacomo DAlisalP