ABSTRACT

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.

This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.

The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.

More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.org

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part 1|34 pages

Lines of thought

part 2|88 pages

The core

chapter 9|4 pages

Autonomy

chapter 14|4 pages

Commons

chapter 15|4 pages

Conviviality

chapter 16|3 pages

Dematerialization

chapter 17|4 pages

Dépense

chapter 20|3 pages

Entropy

chapter 21|3 pages

Emergy

chapter 23|4 pages

Growth

chapter 24|4 pages

Happiness

chapter 28|4 pages

Peak-oil

chapter 29|4 pages

Simplicity

part 3|58 pages

The action

chapter 37|3 pages

Disobedience

chapter 38|4 pages

Eco-communities

chapter 40|3 pages

Job guarantee

chapter 41|3 pages

Money, public

chapter 42|4 pages

New economy

chapter 43|3 pages

Nowtopians

chapter 45|3 pages

Unions

chapter 47|4 pages

Work sharing

part 4|22 pages

Alliances