Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era (True PDF)

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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 View the author spotlight featuring events and press related to degrowth at http://t.co/k9qbQpyuYp. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on contributors Preface Foreword Introduction: degrowth Part 1 Lines of thought 1 Anti-utilitarianism 2 Bioeconomics 3 Development, critiques of 4 Environmental justice 5 Environmentalism, currents of 6 Metabolism, societal 7 Political ecology 8 Steady state economics Part 2 The core 9 Autonomy 10 Capitalism 11 Care 12 Commodification 13 Commodity frontiers 14 Commons 15 Conviviality 16 Dematerialization 17 Dépense 18 Depoliticization (‘the political’) 19 Disaster, pedagogy of 20 Entropy 21 Emergy 22 Gross domestic product 23 Growth 24 Happiness 25 Imaginary, decolonization of 26 Jevons’ paradox 27 Neo-Malthusians 28 Peak-oil 29 Simplicity 30 Social limits of growth Part 3 The action 31 Back-to-the-landers 32 Basic and maximum income 33 Community currencies 34 Co-operatives 35 Debt audit 36 Digital commons 37 Disobedience 38 Eco-communities 39 Indignados (Occupy) 40 Job guarantee 41 Money, public 42 New economy 43 Nowtopians 44 Post-normal science 45 Unions 46 Urban gardening 47 Work sharing Part 4 Alliances 48 Buen Vivir 49 Economy of permanence 50 Feminist economics 51 Ubuntu Epilogue: from austerity to dépense