The act of (de/re)growing
Prefiguring alternative organizational landscapes of socioecological transformations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8103697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Ehrnström‐fuente (0000-0003-3030-2328, Hanken School of Economics, corresponding author), Ingrid Biese (0000-0003-3496-2358, University of Helsinki) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1739-1766 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00187267221112241 |
| OpenAlex | W4283366557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 56 |
How does transformative change that restructures humans’ relations to the Earth come into being? The proposal for degrowth calls for a drastic reorganization of societies in order to deal with the current planetary socioecological and climate crises. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of how such socioecological transformations are brought into being. In this article, we examine prefigurative processes of socioecological transformations. We introduce the concept of the act of (de)growing, a prefigurative practice in which individuals engage at a personal level as they disentangle from organizational spaces governed by growth (act of degrowing), while entangling with nonhumans (cows, sheep, plants and seeds) to consciously make something else grow (act of growing) in the place that they inhabit. Drawing on 10 personal stories of degrowth in the Nordics, we identify four interlinked dimensions of socioecological transformations that bring new degrowth inspired organizational landscapes into being (disentangling from growth; organizing with nonhumans in place; the emergence of novel subjectivities in place; and the formation of translocal networks of support). We discuss the implications that these dispersed situated forms of socioecological transformations have for breaking with the systemic inertia of societal institutions built on economic growth
Biology · Degrowth · Environmental ethics · Situated · Sociology · Sustainability · Transformative learning · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Management and Organizational Studies · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Neoliberal Conservation and the Corporate Governance of Biodiversity
Planning’s ecologies
Regeneration, sufficiency and degrowth
What does degrowth do in/to empirical research? Methodological deliberations on placing degrowth ‘in the world’
A greener future cannot be bought
Cultivating dispersed collectivity
Prefigurative imaginaries
A processual perspective on alternative organization
Narratives in Social Science Research
Storytelling Organizations
The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization
Social Movements and Prefigurative Organizing
Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue
(Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies
Degrowth
Organizing Solidarity Initiatives
Responsible Management-as-Practice
Theoretical perspectives on organizations and organizing in a post-growth era
Storytelling, space and power
Suffering catalyzing ecopreneurship
Post-capitalistic politics in the making
Prefiguring alternatives through the articulation of post- and anti-capitalistic politics
In Transition Toward the Ecocentric Entrepreneurship Nexus
Social Sciences for an Other Politics
Approaching Nonhuman Ontologies
A practice approach to the institutionalization of economic degrowth
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation
Pluriversality and beyond
(Re)existence in times of de-existence
The Prerequisites for a Degrowth Paradigm Shift
Microeconomic degrowth
Mobilising Sense of Place for Degrowth? Lessons From Lancashire's Anti-fracking Activism
Sharing, togetherness and intentional degrowth
Escaping from the economy
This is how I want to live my life”
Nowtopia
The possibility of disalienated work
Imaginaries of Hope
Hybrid Geographies
Alternative organizing in times of crisis
Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy
Doing is Believing
(Im)possibilities of Autonomy
Performing Values Practices and Grassroots Organizing
Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds
Degrowth
The nowtopia of the riverbank
Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence
Geographies of degrowth
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |