Living degrowth? Investigating degrowth practices through performative methods

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12950554
AutoresJohannes Brossmann (Lund University), Mine Islar (0000-0001-9479-4734, Lund University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas917-930
Fecha de publicación2019-11-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSustainability Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11625-019-00756-y
OpenAlexW2987955998
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas27

Degrowth scholarship argues for multi-scalar transformations beyond the growth-oriented economic paradigm to achieve long-term socio-ecological sustainability. While the literature on degrowth has grown substantially, little has been said about how these transformations are understood in practice. By drawing upon practice theory and using performative methods, this paper explores the ways in which degrowth scholars and practitioners experience and understand degrowth. It provides a preliminary account of living degrowth by portraying a diverse range of interrelated practices grouped in five spheres: (1) rethinking society, (2) acting political, (3) creating alternatives, (4) fostering connections, and (5) unveiling the self. Drawing upon the spheres of practices, we conceptualize living degrowth as an endeavour that aims to transform current problems into imagined futures in multiple realms. The practices of living degrowth are concerned with theoretical, political, material, economical, social and personal dimensions of world and life. This points to the importance for sustainability science to investigate and foster transformations in all domains and at all levels, reaching from the outer to the inner and vice versa

Biology · Degrowth · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology