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Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung
Degrowth – Wachstumsrücknahme oder Postwachstum – ist ein provozierendes Schlagwort, aus dem sich inzwischen ein eigenes Forschungsfeld und ein neuer Bezugspunkt vielfältiger sozialökologischer Bewegungen entwickelt haben. Dieser Band stellt sieben Kritikformen dieses Einspruchs gegen die Hegemonie des Wirtschaftswachstums vor: ökologische, sozial-ökonomische und kulturelle Kritik, Kapitalismuskritik, feministische, Industrialismus- sowie Nord-Süd-Kritik. Darüber hinaus ist Postwachstum eine Vision für eine andere Gesellschaft und skizziert Pfade für eine systemische Transfomation. Der Band gibt einen Überblick zu Vorschlägen wie Wachstumsunabhängigkeit, Arbeitszeitverkürzung und Maximaleinkommen, außerdem erklärt er zentrale Konzepte wie Konvivialität, Selbstbestimmung und Care.
- GenresEconomics
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2019
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August 28, 2024
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October 10, 2021
Easily the best book on Degrowth I've read so far. Makes me quite excited for the book Schmelzer and Vetter wrote with Vansintjan coming out next year.
Brings nice perspective to the table, beginning with an explanation of the Great Acceleration and going into several forms of critique one makes of growth and the movements creating alternatives to it. Whereas in Jason Hickel's Degrowth book, the connections between what he might as an anthropologist call modern "cosmology" and economic growth were at best drawn tentatively and at worst arbitrarily, in Schmelzer's and Vetter's narrative the ideological and cultural underpinnings of growth are much more clearly articulated and connected to its material aspects. The explored perspectives are also wider, but this is in a way understandable, as the book is more a presentation of various Degrowth and Postwachstum perspectives, rather than an argument for one of them (this is not to say the book doesn't provide arguments for believing in Degrowth).
That being said it is really dry and is not yet the programmatic book on Degrowth I've been looking for. We are still quite aways from articulating a true analysis our conjuncture, which brings together Degrowth and its organic movements, though I feel we're closer by the day with books like this one and, hopefully, their next book.
Brings nice perspective to the table, beginning with an explanation of the Great Acceleration and going into several forms of critique one makes of growth and the movements creating alternatives to it. Whereas in Jason Hickel's Degrowth book, the connections between what he might as an anthropologist call modern "cosmology" and economic growth were at best drawn tentatively and at worst arbitrarily, in Schmelzer's and Vetter's narrative the ideological and cultural underpinnings of growth are much more clearly articulated and connected to its material aspects. The explored perspectives are also wider, but this is in a way understandable, as the book is more a presentation of various Degrowth and Postwachstum perspectives, rather than an argument for one of them (this is not to say the book doesn't provide arguments for believing in Degrowth).
That being said it is really dry and is not yet the programmatic book on Degrowth I've been looking for. We are still quite aways from articulating a true analysis our conjuncture, which brings together Degrowth and its organic movements, though I feel we're closer by the day with books like this one and, hopefully, their next book.
October 10, 2019
Before all, I need to say that I did not read the book, but only went to a book presentation with the authors a few weeks ago and skimmed through some pages there.
The book is intented as an introduction. But I somehow lost interest when this reduces to definitions, common grounds of the definitions. I would rather want to read a book which poses (a lot more) questions: What do we not know yet, what do we need to know about degrowth?
The book is intented as an introduction. But I somehow lost interest when this reduces to definitions, common grounds of the definitions. I would rather want to read a book which poses (a lot more) questions: What do we not know yet, what do we need to know about degrowth?
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