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Record Nr.

UNINA9911011830003321

Autore

Nelson Anitra

Titolo

Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2025

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-039346-2

1-03-265015-X

1-04-039339-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (531 pages)

Collana

Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Series

Classificazione

BUS099000NAT011000POL044000

Soggetti

Nonfiction

Business

Nature

Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms, symbols and abbreviations -- Part I The current growth conjuncture -- 1 Degrowth has come of age -- 2 Fossilised metabolism: the social ecology of capitalist growth -- 3 Unequal uses of earth -- 4 Capitalist crisis and affective alternatives -- Part II Degrowth: origins and steppingstones -- 5 The French origins and pillars of degrowth -- 6 Degrowth in Italy: early beginnings, political disputes and a plural social movement -- 7 Postwachstum: German roots and currents of degrowth -- 8 A Catalan way towards degrowth -- 9 Accidental degrowth practices: illustrations from Czechia -- 10 Greece: real-existing degrowth and its challenges -- 11 'Degrowth' and the implications of English language hegemony -- 12 Latin American indigenous perspectives meet degrowth -- 13 Degrowth in an African periphery: from necrocapitalism to a pluriverse of nowtopias -- Part III Degrowth practices: concepts in action -- 14 Conviviality and commoning -- 15 Autonomy and freedom in individual



to societal transformation -- 16 The degrowth doughnut -- 17 Frugal abundance: meaning in practice in an Icelandic village -- 18 Defining defashion: a manifesto for degrowth -- 19 Degrowth: health and healthcare -- 20 Holistic care economies: degrowth ways of provisioning and the Global East -- 21 The pedagogy of degrowth and the political ecology of technology -- 22 Mapping the spectrum of degrowth work -- 23 Reimagining collaboration: degrowth practitioners, scholars and activists -- Part IV Degrowth futures: perspectives and strategies -- 24 Twenty years of degrowth: what has been achieved? -- 25 Roles of utopian thought in a degrowth transformation -- 26 Growth, degrowth and poverty reduction.

27 Imperial and solidary modes of living: alternatives to eco-imperialism -- 28 Prefigurative degrowth politics: decolonisation and the non-aligned movement -- 29 Ecofeminist and decolonial feminist degrowth futures -- 30 Fostering degrowth in men: beyond masculinity and the gender binary -- 31 Degrowth, urbanisation and spatial planning -- 32 Degrowth-aligned commoning organisations -- 33 Ecosocialism and degrowth -- 34 Beyond growth: beyond divisions -- 35 Degrowth: future research directions -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This handbook takes stock of 'degrowth', a concept and movement, gaining increasing visibility in the 2020s. Contributors explain contexts for degrowth's significance, elaborate its diverse history and detail its unique approaches, practices, challenges and potential futures.