'Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide', by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson (Pluto Press, 2020)
Channel: Nemnövekedés - Degrowth
Date: 27/05/2020

Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson introduce 'Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide', Pluto Press, August 2020).
More info and pre-order: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342023/exploring-degrowth/

About
Degrowth is a philosophy and movement aimed at reducing economic activity to avert climate catastrophe, while simultaneously improving well-being. When we work and consume less, we can increase our happiness though devoting more time to culture, community and non-monetary pursuits.

This introduction to degrowth—in concept, practice, vision and strategies—draws on select works and the views of key advocates. It focuses on how to practice degrowth and reveals its organisational strengths and challenges, which are inspired by diverse geographic and cultural contexts. It explains why eternal economic growth under capitalism is erroneous and dangerous and challenges the left's emphasis on reforms such as environmental regulation and redistributive social justice delivered by a state supporting economic growth.

Covering themes such as horizontal democracy, localising economies, reducing work and post-capitalism, this book shows why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project to be taken seriously by anyone wanting to prevent climate catastrophe. 

Authors
Vincent Liegey is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissanceons Utopia, 2013. He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia—a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest.
http://projet-decroissance.net/ and http://cargonomia.hu/

Anitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto, 2018) and co-editor of Housing for Degrowth (2018) and Food for Degrowth (2020). See: https://anitranelson.info/

Contents
1. Introduction: Exploding Growth
2. What is Degrowth?
3. Degrowth: A Multidimensional and Influential Movement
4. What Political Strategy for Degrowth?
5. The Degrowth Project