Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

Escobar, Arturo

doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0297-5

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“…This places the quotidian actions of us all in a passive and minor role, responding once again to the vicissitudes of global markets, which operate in places and scales seemingly far removed from our reach. Yet, as many writers and activists have argued, there are other ways of thinking about and conceptualizing truly radical reconfigurations and transformation discourses Escobar, 2015), such as ones that emphasize the power and potential of everyday actions and initiatives to change not just the day-to-day lives of a handful of committed activists but contribute to the broader societal transformations Cameron & (icks, : . )n the next section, we provisionally examine how such frameworks can and do speak to some of the challenges of the CE.…”

Section: Is Sharing Really Caring? Questioning Social and Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead, they argue that these are socially constructed concepts that can be enacted and performed differently, in the process displacing them as the driving force of societies, institutions and indeed, ourselves as socio-political subjects. To elaborate briefly, the concept of degrowth , or decroissance Letouche, has emerged from activists deep concerns about ecological crises and the prevailing pathways of technology and development (Escobar, 2015). In short, this movement and body of work argues for the: downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet.…”

Section: What Would a Post-capitalist Airbnb Look Like?: Shifting Ontmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

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Lynch

2016

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Programmes and policies for a Circular Economy (CE) are fast becoming key to regional and international plans for creating sustainable futures. Framed as a technologically driven and economically profitable vision of continued growth in a resource-scarce world, the CE has of late been taken up by the European Commission and global business leaders alike. However, within CE debates and documentation, little is said about the social and political implications of such transformative agendas. That is, whilst CE proponents claim their agenda is 'radical', this paper outlines its inability to address many deeply embedded challenges around issues of consumption and the consumer, echoing as it does the problematic (and arguably failed) agendas of sustainable consumption / lifestyles. Using the Sharing Economy as an example, we argue here that the ontological and sociological assumptions of the CE must be open to more 'radical' critique and reconsideration if this agenda is to deliver the profound transformations that its advocates claim are within our collective reach.

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Section: Is Sharing Really Caring? Questioning Social and Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Would a Post-capitalist Airbnb Look Like?: Shifting Ontmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

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Lynch

2016

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“…Their aspirations go beyond the development of affordable products for poor people and far beyond the narrow narrative of poor-as-consumers of the BOP literature. Many grassroots movements in the North [64] and in the South [130] aspire to overturn the social structures and power relations. This forms the basis for the major global challenges, e.g., soaring inequality, environmental justice, asymmetric trade agreements, centralised energy systems etc.…”

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Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs

2016

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Abstract:A shift in the entrepreneurial landscape is taking place brought about by grassroots innovators with little formal education and technological knowhow, living and working in penurious environments. This research represents an emerging third wave of literature on Bottom of the Pyramid innovation, where products are offered for and by the underserved. Using primary and secondary data derived from four cases of grassroots entrepreneurs in the Indian Subcontinent, the study explores the phenomenon where resource scarce entrepreneurs craft solutions that are environmental friendly, with low overall ownership costs, and use locally available material. We argue that the grassroots phenomenon can be fruitfully exploited to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN as a post-2015 strategy for the future of global governance. These innovations might have a tremendous impact not only in terms of serving unmet and ignored consumer needs, but also longer term impacts through enhanced productivity, sustainability, poverty reduction and inclusion promotion.

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“…We could cite, for example, the growing degrowth movement in Europe, efforts like the transition town initiative or the Buen Vivir approach from Ecuador. While these approaches and frameworks have been constituted in very different realities, they seem to have a common baseline -a radical critique of the current development (or even civilizational) model, the winning over the industrial logic and the vision of alternative worlds based on ecological integrity and social justice 6 (Escobar, 2015). Any (urban) planning able to incorporate such thinking without getting appropriated by industrial and capital interests -a certainly diffi cult task -could have the potential to create forms of development which share the considerations of this article.…”

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Development? Thinking the future through a urban-natural perspective

2016

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Resumo AbstractThis article offers a theoretical discussion on urbanization, nature and development and some of the links and interdependencies that connect these concepts. The focus is on some of the underlying dynamics and issues of our current development project defi ned as capitalist industrialization. The article illustrates the role of cities for human development and then argues that the relationship between society and nature could be -and indeed already has been -thought from a different perspective. Finally, the article discusses the transition from "campesinato" (peasantry) to traditional communities as product of extensive urbanization, as form of resistance and as potential blueprint for an alternative development and, potentially, for the Lefebvrian urban-utopia.

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Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

Cited by 350 publications

References 22 publications

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs

Development? Thinking the future through a urban-natural perspective

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