Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ekaterina, Chertkovskaya; Barca, Stefania; Paulsson, Alexander

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities. In the past decade, degrowth has gained momentum and become an umbrella term for various social movements which strive for ecologically sustainable and socially just alternatives that would transform the world we live in. How to move forward in an informed way, without reproducing the existing hierarchies and injustices? How not to end up in a situation when ecological sustainability is the prerogative of the privileged, direct democracy is ignorant of environmental issues, and localisation of production is xenophobic? These are some of the questions that have inspired this edited collection. Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786608970
• Artikelnr.: 58395339

Autorenporträt

Ekaterina Chertkovskaya is a Researcher in Degrowth and Critical Organisation Studies based at Lund University and a member of the editorial collective of ephemera journal. Alexander Paulsson is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University School of Economics and Management. Stefania Barca is an environmental historian and Senior Researcher, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The End of Political Economy as We Knew it? From Growth
Realism to Nomadic Utopianism
Stefania Barca, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson
Part 1: Critical Political Economies
Chapter 1. The Limits of Systems: Economics, Management and the
Problematization of Growth During the Golden Age of Capitalism
Alexander Paulsson
Chapter 2. Reorienting Comparative Political Economy: From Economic Growth
to Sustainable Alternatives
Hubert Buch-Hansen
Chapter 3. The Topicality of André Gorz's Political Ecology: Rethinking
1977 Écologie Et Libertè to (Re)Connect Marxism and Degrowth
Emanuele Leonardi
Chapter 4. Growth and Degrowth in Marx's Critique of Political Economy
Max Koch
Chapter 5. The Historical Roots of a Feminist 'Degrowth': Maria Mies and
Marilyn Waring's Critiques of Growth
Catia Gregoratti and Riya Raphael
Part Two: Emerging Terrains
Chapter 6. Degrowth in Theory, Pursuit of Growth in Action: Exploring the
Russian and Soviet Contexts
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya
Chapter 7