Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (FireWorks)

Liegey, Vincent,Nelson, Anitra

ISBN 10: 0745342027 / ISBN 13: 9780745342023

Published by Pluto Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (FireWorks)
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745342027
• ISBN 13: 9780745342023
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.

As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth's limits.

This book navigates the practice and strategies of the movement, looking at its strengths and weaknesses. Covering horizontal democracy, local economies and the reduction of work, it shows us why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project.

About the Author

Vincent Liegey is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissance (Editions Utopia, 2013). He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia - a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest.

Anitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne, Australia and co-author of Exploring Degrowth, co-editor of Life Without Money and author of Marx's Concept of Money.

Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of 'The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets'.