Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Contributors XIII
5. Foreword 1
6. Introduction – Degrowth: Swimming Against the Ideological Tide 7
7. Part I: Degrowth Agendas
8. Introduction 23
9. 1 ‘Without Growth, Everything is Nothing’: On the Origins of Growthism 25
10. 2 Degrowth: Monetary and Nonmonetary Economies 41
11. 3 Critiques of Work: The Radical Roots of Degrowth 55
12. 4 Cultural Political Economy and Degrowth Politics 75
13. 5 Sustainable Welfare: Decoupling Welfare from Growth and Prioritising Needs Satisfaction for All 89
14. Part II: Degrowth in Practice
15. Introduction 107
16. 6 How and Who? The Debate About a Strategy for Degrowth 109
17. 7 Translating Degrowth: From Policy Proposals to Praxis 129
18. 8 Living in Abundance: Tool Libraries for Convivial Degrowth 149
19. 9 Materialising Degrowth Agrifood Architecture with Earth 167
20. 10 They Want Us to Live in Caves: Degrowth and the Housing Question 191
21. Part III: The Urban and the Rural
22. Introduction 211
23. 11 The Case for Solidary Degrowth Spaces. Five Propositions on the Challenging Project of Spatialising Degrowth 213
24. 12 Urban Degrowth 233
25. 13 Land Commodification: A Structural Barrier to Degrowth Transition 251
26. 14 Agroecology as Degrowth in Practice: Resistance Rooted in Human- Nature Relationality 273
27. 15 Organising Nature Through Urban Gardening 291
28. Part IV: Critical Connections
29. Introduction 309
30. 16 Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth 311
31. 17 Dependency, Delinking and Degrowth in a New Developmental Era: Debates from Argentina 327
32. 18 Degrowth and Psychoanalysis: From Transition to Transformation 339
33. 19 Degrowth Disagreements with Marxism: Critical Perspectives on the Fetishisation of Value and Productivity 361
34. 20 Not Just Newer, but Fewer: A Bridge Between Ecomodernism and Degrowth? 377
35. Part V: Degrowth and the Global South
36. Introduction 395
37. 21 From Marxist Development Theories to Their Translation in the Degrowth Discourse: Transforming Unequal International Structures for Environmental Sustainability 397
38. 22 Radical Ecological Democracy: Reflections from the South on Degrowth 417
39. 23 Degrowth Beyond the Metropole: Theory and Praxis for a Revolutionary Degrowth 427
40. 24 Growing Degrowth: Alliances with Environmental Movements in the Global South 447
41. 25 ‘For the Greater Good’– Green Sacrifice Zones and Subaltern Resistance: The Politics and Potential of Degrowth and Post-Extractivist Futures 461
42. List of Figures 479
43. About the Editors 481
44. Index 483