Degrowth: tentative ideas about a research agenda
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This document outlines a tentative research agenda for degrowth. It begins by defining degrowth as the reduction of production and consumption through downscaling, decolonization of growth-centric imaginations, and reducing the domain of market rationality. The document then notes strengths and weaknesses of current degrowth research. It proposes strengthening theoretical and empirical arguments against growth, modeling sustainability under degrowth, and examining political and structural barriers to transition. The agenda also suggests engaging with internal contradictions and developing a coherent degrowth theory to explain how and why alternative systems work.
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Snapshot of my "Futurist Lecture Series" presentation at the 2010 annual conference of the World Future Society in Boston. This PDF has a few sample slides. Want more? Invite me to present!Problems with QE aka Printing Money - sanders richard - csiro paper - nub of ...
Problems with QE aka Printing Money - sanders richard - csiro paper - nub of ...Awethentic
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Cultivating a Future ~ St Mary's University College, United Kingdom
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- 1. Degrowth: tentative ideas about a research agenda Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Researcher 2nd International Conference on Degrowth, Barcelona, 28 March 2010
- 2. This presentation Definition of degrowth. My take on the state of degrowth research. Tentative research agenda.
- 3. 1. What is degrowth?
- 4. Three notions Reduction of production and consumption in physical terms through downscaling (and not just efficiency improvements). Decolonization of the imaginary (a-growth) Decommodification reducing the domain of market rationality.
- 5. The degrowth propositions Growth is unsustainable. Degrowth has environmental and social benefits (double dividend).
- 6. 2. State of degrowth research
- 7. Strengths Plurality of approaches. Creative mix of different approaches and ideas.
- 8. Contributions Unsustainability of eco-modernization (rebound effect, Jevon卒s paradox, etc) Political, cultural and anthropological cricisims of development, economism, technocentrism and utilitarianism. (Re)emerging fresh proposals (basic income, reduced working hours, resource sanctuaries, moratoria, etc) and practical examples.
- 9. Weaknesses Programmatic laundry lists. Lack of solid theoretical grounding or theoretical development. We do not engage enough with our own contradictions. Empirical works on alternatives are often methodologically and theoretically weak.
- 10. 3. Tentative research agenda
- 11. Tentative research agenda Strengthen propositions. Engage with contradictions. Develop theory.
- 12. Strengthen propositions Unsustainability of growth Sustainability of degrowth How to? The process of transition. Characterize the end state.
- 13. Unsustainability of growth Strengthen theoretically and empirically the case against the possibility of dematerializing growth.
- 14. Sustainability of degrowth Hypothesize/model impacts on Population. Renewable Energies. Employment and Social Security. Social infrastructures, etc. Metabolic scenarios (e.g. how many people can be fed by oil-free agriculture and at what levels?). Psychological effects under different scenarios vis--vis human behavior.
- 15. How to? The process of transition Structural barriers. Can capitalism degrow sustainably? Political processes and transformation.
- 16. The end state The degrowth economy. The degrowth democracy. International relations.
- 17. Contradictions Degrowth vs. a-growth. Ecotaxation vs. Decommodification. Imperative vs. Political proposal. Well-being vs. Anti-utilitarianism. Community Democracy vs. degrow this, but grow that.
- 18. Theory Can we build a coherent theory/ies? Do we have to?
- 19. What is a theory How and why things work the way they do? Why x is happening and not y or z? Agents of change. Central problem. Value theory. Marxists have a theory. Neoliberal economists have a theory. We dont.
- 20. Tentative research agenda Strengthen propositions. Engage with contradictions. Develop theory.