Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring Pathways for Transformation

Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring Pathways for Transformation

Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring Pathways for Transformation

Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring Pathways for Transformation

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Overview

Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. Degrowth in Movement(s) reflects on the current situation of social movements aiming at overcoming capitalism, industrialism and domination. The essays ask: What is the key idea of the respective movement? Who is active? What is the relation with the degrowth movement? What can the degrowth movement learn from these other movements and the other way around? Which common proposals, but also which contradictions, oppositions and tensions exist? And what alliances could be possible for broader systemic transformations? Corinna Bukhart, Matthias Schmelzer, and Nina Treu have curated an impressive demonstration that there are, beyond regressive neoliberalism and techno-fixes, emancipatory alternatives contributing to a good life for all. Degrowth in Movement(s) explores this mosaic for social-ecological transformation - an alliance strengthened by diversity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789041866
Publisher: Hunt, John Publishing
Publication date: 06/01/2020
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 5.59(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Nina Treu is co-founder and coordinator of the Laboratory for New Economic Ideas in Leipzig, Gemany. In her work there and as part of the degrowth and climate justice movement, she tries to bring different movements together. Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian, networker and climate activist based in Leipzig, Germany. He combines activism in social movements around climate justice and degrowth with academic research.Corinna Burkhart is a Doctoral student based at Lund University in Sweden. Her research focuses on how, in a society increasingly dominated by economic forces, creative spaces and open workshops provide freedom to do things differently, and considers how these spaces can contribute to social transformation.

Table of Contents

Preface Donatella della Porta 1

Foreword Barbara Muraca 4

Introduction: Degrowth and the Emerging Mosaic of Alternatives Corinna Burkhart Matthias Schmelzer Nina Treu 9

Chapter 1 The Growth Imperative of Capitalist Society Eric Pineault 29

Chapter 2 15M: Strategies, Critique and Autonomous Spaces Eduard Nus 44

Chapter 3 Artivism: Injecting Imagination into Degrowth John Jordan 59

Chapter 4 Basic Income: Unconditional Social Security for All Ronald Blaschke 73

Chapter 5 Buen Vivir: A Perspective for Rethinking the World Alberto Acosta 87

Chapter 6 Care Revolution: Care Work - The Core of the Economy Matthias Neumann Gabriele Winker 100

Chapter 7 Climate Justice: Global Resistance to Fossil-Fueled Capitalism Tadzio Müller 114

Chapter 8 Commons: Self-organized Provisioning as Social Movements Johannes Euler Leslie Gauditz 128

Chapter 9 Degrowth: Overcoming Growth, Competition and Profit Corinna Burkhart Dennis Eversberg Matthias Schmelzer Nina Treu 143

Chapter 10 Demonetize: The Problem is Money Andrea*s Exner Justin Morgan Franz Nahrada Anitra Nelson Christian Siefkes 159

Chapter 11 Ecovillages: Living Degrowth as a Community Christiane Kliemann 172

Chapter 12 Food Sovereignty: Fighting for Good Food for All Irmi Salzer Julianna Fehlinger 187

Chapter 13 Free-Software: Re-decentralizing the Internet and Developing Commons Gualter Barbas Baptista 201

Chapter 14 Open Workshops: Collectively Creating and Using Infrastructure Tom Hansing 216

Chapter 15 Peoples Global Action: (Truly) Global Grassroots Resistance Friederike Habermann 231

Chapter 16 Post-Extractivism: Against the Exploitation of Natural Resources Ulrich Brand 244

Chapter 17 Radical Ecological Democracy: Reflections from the South on Degrowth Ashish Kothari 258

Chapter 18 Refugee Movement: Struggling with Migration and Escape Olaf Bernau 272

Chapter 19 Solidarity Economy: Paths to Transformation Dagmar Embshoff Clarita Müller-Plantenberg Giuliana Giorgi 287

Chapter 20 Transition Initiatives: How Communities Start Their Own Transformation Gesa Maschkowski Stephanie Ristig-Bresser Silvia Hable Norbert Rost Michael Schem 302

Chapter 21 Trade Unions: Who Can Afford to Degrow? Jana Flemming Norbert Reuter 318

Chapter 22 Urban Gardening: Searching New Relationships Between Nature and Culture Christa Müller 333

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