Federico Demaria
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1370837 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Federico Demaria |
| PRENOMES | Federico |
| SOBRENOME | Demaria |
| ASSINATURA | DEMARIA F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4939-8243 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 861 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Ecological economics into action
Contribuciones de los recicladores informales al metabolismo de la ciudad de Barcelona
In Barcelona, around 3,200 people engage in the informal selection, collection, enhancement, transformation, and sale of objects and materials derived from waste. Although this activity is a daily occurrence in the lives of Barcelona residents, its dynamics are little known, and its contributions often ignored. In this case study, we describe the various contributions recyclers make to the city’s metabolism, drawing from the research findings of …
Justicia ambiental
This article revisits how capital-driven industrial policies foster environmental injustices through the concepts of primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, and accumulation by contamination. We argue that waste management is a critical field where capital accumulates wealth while shifting costs onto vulnerable communities. The concept of accumulation by contamination (AbC) is used to explain how capital socialises the costs of con…
Accumulation by contamination
Accumulation by Contamination (AbC) is the process by which capital socialises the costs of contamination. • Comparative analysis of waste management conflicts in Delhi and Naples shows how the cost of contamination is socialised. • Subsidies and the financialisation of the waste sector favour capital accumulation practices involving dispossession and contamination. • The concept of AbC sheds new light on the driving forces of environmental confl…
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science and contribute to a sustainable future. This editorial contributes to this effort by contemplating the sustainability science research agenda and aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations with the editorial board members of the Sustainability Science journal and a review of relevant literature, we identified 12 key research t…
Urbanizing degrowth
We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for ‘operationalising’ degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to criticall…
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options
Following Illich’s (1974) notion of convivial tools and the distinction he makes between “self-propelled transit” and “motorized transport” of mobility, we apply the emerging paradigm of degrowth to urban mobility. Based on the degrowth literature and Illich’s work, we derive principles and criteria for the mobility of a degrowth society that include institutional, energy and material use, infrastructure, local environmental impacts, social impac…
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse
Alternatives to sustainable development
Encontrando senderos pluriversales
La crisis actual es histórica y estructural con amplias evidencias en la ecología del planeta que muestra una creciente degradación ambiental. Es necesaria una profunda crítica al desarrollo puesto que los procesos productivos han conducido a un deterioro de los recursos naturales. Se perfila una propuesta de deconstrucción del desarrollo que cuestiona el crecimiento económico, la racionalidad instrumental, el antropocentrismo y el sexismo. Los p…
Sélection thématique de livres
un processus en mutation
Hallar senderos pluriversales
Environmental conflicts and defenders
Recent research and policies recognize the importance of environmental defenders for global sustainability and emphasize their need for protection against violence and repression. However, effective support may benefit from a more systematic understanding of the underlying environmental conflicts, as well as from better knowledge on the factors that enable environmental defenders to mobilize successfully. We have created the global Environmental …
Garbage is Gold
Waste is increasingly viewed as a resource rather than an externality. However, new waste management regimes must be introduced in order for value to be created, enhanced and captured. We refer to these regimes as modes of valorization, and they establish the conditions that allow waste to become a commodity frontier. The production of waste-based commodity frontiers is often accompanied by dispossession, and this explains why conflicts surroundi…
Crisis as opportunity
This chapter proposes a strategy for postdevelopment politics, growing organically from ‘a world confluence of alternatives’. It reaches for a pluriverse. In the ‘development’ era, people believed that the culture of capitalist modernity would bring universal progress and material abundance. However, the eurocentric political model has resulted in a global crisis so severe that Life-on-Earth now faces extinction. The reality of development is oil…
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Pluriverse
"Contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values."--Page [4] of cover
Geographies of degrowth
The term ' décroissance' (degrowth) signifies a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society's material and energy use while improving the quality of life. Degrowth calls for decolonizing imaginaries and institutions from - in Ursula Le Guin's words - 'a one-way future consisting only of growth'. Recent scholarship has focused on the ecological and social costs of growth, on policies that may secure prosperity without gro…
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas)
Discursive Synergies for a ‘Great Transformation’ Towards Sustainability
Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability
Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and when conflicts over the use of the environment may take an active role in shaping transitions toward sustainability. It presents a conceptual framework that schematically maps out the linkages between (a) patterns of (unsustainable) social metabolism, (b) the emergen…
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda
This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron 'sustainable development', and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymaker…
Degrowth; Handbuch für eine neue Ära. Das unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk zur Postwachstumsdebatte
Contesting Urban Metabolism
Recent scholarship on the materiality of cities has been criticized by critical urban scholars for being overly descriptive and failing to account for political economy. We argue that through the conceptualization of urban metabolisms advanced by ecological economists and industrial ecologists, materialist and critical perspectives can be mutually enriching. We focus on conflict that has erupted in Delhi, India. Authorities have embraced waste‐to…
Degrowth
What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
Degrowth is the literal translation of 'décroissance', a French word meaning reduction. Launched by activists in 2001 as a challenge to growth, it became a missile word that sparks a contentious debate on the diagnosis and prognosis of our society. 'Degrowth' became an interpretative frame for a new (and old) social movement where numerous streams of critical ideas and political actions converge. It is an attempt to re-politicise debates about de…
Environmental conflicts and defenders
Recent research and policies recognize the importance of environmental defenders for global sustainability and emphasize their need for protection against violence and repression. However, effective support may benefit from a more systematic understanding of the underlying environmental conflicts, as well as from better knowledge on the factors that enable environmental defenders to mobilize successfully. We have created the global Environmental …
Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability
Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and when conflicts over the use of the environment may take an active role in shaping transitions toward sustainability. It presents a conceptual framework that schematically maps out the linkages between (a) patterns of (unsustainable) social metabolism, (b) the emergen…
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas)
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda
This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron 'sustainable development', and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymaker…
Contesting Urban Metabolism
Recent scholarship on the materiality of cities has been criticized by critical urban scholars for being overly descriptive and failing to account for political economy. We argue that through the conceptualization of urban metabolisms advanced by ecological economists and industrial ecologists, materialist and critical perspectives can be mutually enriching. We focus on conflict that has erupted in Delhi, India. Authorities have embraced waste‐to…
Geographies of degrowth
The term ' décroissance' (degrowth) signifies a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society's material and energy use while improving the quality of life. Degrowth calls for decolonizing imaginaries and institutions from - in Ursula Le Guin's words - 'a one-way future consisting only of growth'. Recent scholarship has focused on the ecological and social costs of growth, on policies that may secure prosperity without gro…
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Alternatives to sustainable development
Discursive Synergies for a ‘Great Transformation’ Towards Sustainability
Garbage is Gold
Waste is increasingly viewed as a resource rather than an externality. However, new waste management regimes must be introduced in order for value to be created, enhanced and captured. We refer to these regimes as modes of valorization, and they establish the conditions that allow waste to become a commodity frontier. The production of waste-based commodity frontiers is often accompanied by dispossession, and this explains why conflicts surroundi…
Urbanizing degrowth
We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for ‘operationalising’ degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to criticall…
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse
Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society
Within the context of the ecological crisis and technocratic drift of western nations whose overarching goal is economic growth, a plea for degrowth is emerging. In this essay, the concept of degrowth is adopted as an interpretative frame to describe a variety of forms of grassroots activism, mainly across crisis-ridden Europe. Particular attention is devoted to the distinction between forms of alternative activism that respect conventional socie…
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science and contribute to a sustainable future. This editorial contributes to this effort by contemplating the sustainability science research agenda and aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations with the editorial board members of the Sustainability Science journal and a review of relevant literature, we identified 12 key research t…
Accumulation by contamination
Accumulation by Contamination (AbC) is the process by which capital socialises the costs of contamination. • Comparative analysis of waste management conflicts in Delhi and Naples shows how the cost of contamination is socialised. • Subsidies and the financialisation of the waste sector favour capital accumulation practices involving dispossession and contamination. • The concept of AbC sheds new light on the driving forces of environmental confl…
Shipbreaking at Alang–Sosiya (India)
Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society
Within the context of the ecological crisis and technocratic drift of western nations whose overarching goal is economic growth, a plea for degrowth is emerging. In this essay, the concept of degrowth is adopted as an interpretative frame to describe a variety of forms of grassroots activism, mainly across crisis-ridden Europe. Particular attention is devoted to the distinction between forms of alternative activism that respect conventional socie…
What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
Degrowth is the literal translation of 'décroissance', a French word meaning reduction. Launched by activists in 2001 as a challenge to growth, it became a missile word that sparks a contentious debate on the diagnosis and prognosis of our society. 'Degrowth' became an interpretative frame for a new (and old) social movement where numerous streams of critical ideas and political actions converge. It is an attempt to re-politicise debates about de…
Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj
Degrowth
Degrowth has been launched into the political arena by activists and intellectuals as a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability. \n \nThis overview of degrowth offers to the English speaking-world a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it of…
Degrowth
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation
Degrowth; Handbuch für eine neue Ära. Das unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk zur Postwachstumsdebatte
Contesting Urban Metabolism
Recent scholarship on the materiality of cities has been criticized by critical urban scholars for being overly descriptive and failing to account for political economy. We argue that through the conceptualization of urban metabolisms advanced by ecological economists and industrial ecologists, materialist and critical perspectives can be mutually enriching. We focus on conflict that has erupted in Delhi, India. Authorities have embraced waste‐to…
Discursive Synergies for a ‘Great Transformation’ Towards Sustainability
Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability
Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and when conflicts over the use of the environment may take an active role in shaping transitions toward sustainability. It presents a conceptual framework that schematically maps out the linkages between (a) patterns of (unsustainable) social metabolism, (b) the emergen…
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda
This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron 'sustainable development', and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a research, dialogue and action agenda for activists, policymaker…
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas)
Crisis as opportunity
This chapter proposes a strategy for postdevelopment politics, growing organically from ‘a world confluence of alternatives’. It reaches for a pluriverse. In the ‘development’ era, people believed that the culture of capitalist modernity would bring universal progress and material abundance. However, the eurocentric political model has resulted in a global crisis so severe that Life-on-Earth now faces extinction. The reality of development is oil…
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Pluriverse
"Contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values."--Page [4] of cover
Geographies of degrowth
The term ' décroissance' (degrowth) signifies a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society's material and energy use while improving the quality of life. Degrowth calls for decolonizing imaginaries and institutions from - in Ursula Le Guin's words - 'a one-way future consisting only of growth'. Recent scholarship has focused on the ecological and social costs of growth, on policies that may secure prosperity without gro…
Encontrando senderos pluriversales
La crisis actual es histórica y estructural con amplias evidencias en la ecología del planeta que muestra una creciente degradación ambiental. Es necesaria una profunda crítica al desarrollo puesto que los procesos productivos han conducido a un deterioro de los recursos naturales. Se perfila una propuesta de deconstrucción del desarrollo que cuestiona el crecimiento económico, la racionalidad instrumental, el antropocentrismo y el sexismo. Los p…
Sélection thématique de livres
un processus en mutation
Hallar senderos pluriversales
Environmental conflicts and defenders
Recent research and policies recognize the importance of environmental defenders for global sustainability and emphasize their need for protection against violence and repression. However, effective support may benefit from a more systematic understanding of the underlying environmental conflicts, as well as from better knowledge on the factors that enable environmental defenders to mobilize successfully. We have created the global Environmental …
Garbage is Gold
Waste is increasingly viewed as a resource rather than an externality. However, new waste management regimes must be introduced in order for value to be created, enhanced and captured. We refer to these regimes as modes of valorization, and they establish the conditions that allow waste to become a commodity frontier. The production of waste-based commodity frontiers is often accompanied by dispossession, and this explains why conflicts surroundi…
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options
Following Illich’s (1974) notion of convivial tools and the distinction he makes between “self-propelled transit” and “motorized transport” of mobility, we apply the emerging paradigm of degrowth to urban mobility. Based on the degrowth literature and Illich’s work, we derive principles and criteria for the mobility of a degrowth society that include institutional, energy and material use, infrastructure, local environmental impacts, social impac…
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse
Alternatives to sustainable development
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