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Degrowth - A Vocabulary for a New Era (Paperback): Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis Degrowth - A Vocabulary for a New Era (Paperback)
Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust.

When the language in use is inadequate to articulate what begs to be articulated, then it is time for a new vocabulary. A movement of activists and intellectuals, first starting in France and then spreading to the rest of the world, has called for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. "Degrowth" (""Decroissance"") has come to signify for them the desired direction of societies that will use less natural resources and will organize to live radically differently. "Simplicity," "conviviality," "autonomy," "care," "the commons" and "depense," the social and ritual destruction of accumulated surplus, are some of the words that express what a degrowth society might look like.

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Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era" is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth. It presents and explains the different lines of thought, imaginaries, and proposed courses of action that together complete the degrowth puzzle. The book brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only believe that another world is possible, but work and struggle to construct it right now.

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Degrowth - A Vocabulary for a New Era (Hardcover): Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis Degrowth - A Vocabulary for a New Era (Hardcover)
Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis
R4,137 Discovery Miles 41 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust.

When the language in use is inadequate to articulate what begs to be articulated, then it is time for a new vocabulary. A movement of activists and intellectuals, first starting in France and then spreading to the rest of the world, has called for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. "Degrowth" (""Decroissance"") has come to signify for them the desired direction of societies that will use less natural resources and will organize to live radically differently. "Simplicity," "conviviality," "autonomy," "care," "the commons" and "depense," the social and ritual destruction of accumulated surplus, are some of the words that express what a degrowth society might look like.

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Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era" is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth. It presents and explains the different lines of thought, imaginaries, and proposed courses of action that together complete the degrowth puzzle. The book brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only believe that another world is possible, but work and struggle to construct it right now.

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Pluriverse - A Post-Development Dictionary (Hardcover): Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto... Pluriverse - A Post-Development Dictionary (Hardcover)
Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical essays on mainstream solutions that 'greenwash' development and presents radically different worldviews and practices from around the world that point to an ecologically wise and socially just world.

The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India - Circular Economy, Green Jobs, and Poverty (Hardcover): Federico... The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India - Circular Economy, Green Jobs, and Poverty (Hardcover)
Federico Demaria
R2,546 Discovery Miles 25 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Waste is increasingly a site of social conflict. The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by whom become intrinsically political questions. This book is about the power relations in recycling, from the viewpoint of political ecology and ecological economics. Informal waste recyclers are invisible for citizens and public policy. This book focuses on environmental conflicts involving them, with two emblematic case studies from India. Firstly, ship breaking, where the metabolism of a global infrastructure, namely shipping, shifts social and environmental costs to very localized communities in order to obtain large profits. Secondly, the conflict around municipal solid waste management in Delhi shows how environmental costs are shifted to urban residents, and recyclers are dispossessed of their livelihood source: recyclable waste. The first is an example of capital accumulation by contamination, while the second involves both dispossession and contamination. The struggles of informal recyclers constitute an attempt to re-politicize waste metabolism beyond techno-managerial solutions by fostering counter-hegemonic discourses and praxis. The book presents a range of experiences, mostly in India but with examples from all over the world, to inform theory on how environments are shaped, politicized, and contested.

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