Routledge Handbook of Degrowth / edited by Anitra Nelson ; editorial adviser Vincent Liegey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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. Part I sets the ecological, economic and political contexts framing degrowth's evolution as a significant concept for societies facing the challenges of deepening socio-political inequities and ecological unsustainabilities. Part II identifies themes characterising degrowth movements in a sample of distinctive countries, starting with its origins in France. Part III shows degrowth 'concepts in action', explaining in practical ways the meanings of terms such as 'conviviality', 'degrowth doughnut', 'frugal abundance', 'commoning' and 'defashioning'. Part IV offers analyses and forward-looking imaginaries for degrowth from the perspectives of distinctive agents, agendas and theoretical frameworks - such as ecofeminist futures, utopian thought, and showing how degrowth addresses poverty demands degrowth. Highly experienced and knowledgeable contributors from varied scholarly and practitioner fields address a range of strategic, activist, policy, and research questions in this handbook. Grounded in empirical cases they identify significant social and ecological challenges, relevant to students, researchers, activists, policy-makers and practitioners at various levels within the wide range of fields in which degrowth can be applied

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