Degrowth

Timothée Parrique

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_181

Degrowth

Timothée Parrique

Organizational Studies

Stockholm University

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This article examines the idea of degrowth, a concept in political ecology used to envision a democratically planned downscaling of production and consumption in affluent regions of the world as a means to avoid ecological breakdown, decrease inequality, and improve quality of life. Since its inception at the beginning of the 2000s in France, the idea of degrowth has sparked a worldwide social movement which has revamped critiques of capitalism, globalization, and modernity. To better grasp its contours, I synthesize the paradigm of degrowth in four essential features: a resource-saving macroeconomic diet, the abolition of extreme wealth, a redirection of economic activities towards concrete needs, and a decentralization of power.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of the Anthropocene
Subtitle of host publication	Humans between Heritage and Future
Editors	Nathanaël Wallenhorst, Christoph Wulf
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1113–1117
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-25910-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-25909-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_181
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Postgrowth Welfare Systems
Koch, M. (PI), Islar, M. (Researcher), Alkan Olsson, J. (Researcher), Paulsson, A. (Researcher), Parrique, T. (Researcher), Raphael, R. (Researcher) & Hinton, J. (Researcher)
2021/08/01 → 2025/01/31
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