Degrowth · A Vocabulary for a New Era
- Authors
- D'Alisa, Giacomo & Demaria, Federico & Kallis, Giorgos
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Tags
- politics
- ISBN
- 9781134449842
- Date
- 2014-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.49 MB
- Lang
- en
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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