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Making transformative geographies : lessons from Stuttgart's community economy /
In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, Benedikt Schmid speaks about the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ;
Bd. 37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Focus and research question
- Contributions
- Limitations
- Structure
- Part I: From a growing economy to a-growth economies
- Chapter 1: Growth in the Capitalocene
- Why are we growth addicted?
- Escalation
- Limits
- Green growth
- an oxymoron?
- Why grow in the first place?
- Interim conclusion
- Chapter 2: Alternative economies
- Alterity and diversity
- Degrowth
- Postcapitalism
- Towards a radical theory and praxis
- Chapter 3: Transformation, transition, and agency
- Sustainability transition research
- Grassroots innovations and the social economy
- Agents and allies of transformation
- Transition, transformation, and politics
- Interlude I: Geographies of change
- Part II: Transformative geographies: space, politics and change
- Chapter 4: Reimagining togetherness
- Community
- Community economy
- Economic diversity
- Poststructuralist transformative geographies
- Epistemic fallacy?
- Chapter 5: Materialization
- From regimes of signification to practice
- Practice theories
- Working with the concept of practice
- Institutions and organizations in practice
- Chapter 6: Scale and power in transformative geographies
- Scale
- Power
- Chapter 7: From transformative geographies to a degrowth transition
- Interventions in practice
- Towards a degrowth transition
- Degrowth practices and politics
- Operationalization: the diverse logics perspective
- Interlude II: Strategies for transformation
- Part III: Researching transformative geographies
- Chapter 8: A practice theory methodology
- Chapter 9: Planning and conducting research on a degrowth case study
- The case of Stuttgart
- Research design
- Chapter 10: Research as practice
- Participatory action research
- Positionality and self-reflection
- Chapter 11: Data analysis
- Coding and coding frames: an overview
- From conceptual framework to coding frames
- Triangulation and final coding
- Part IV: Stuttgart's community economy
- Of infidels and agnostics
- Chapter 12: Alternatives
- Slow technology
- supporting sufficiency and subsistence
- Unlocking a sustainable local economy
- A politics of pragmatism
- Trust-based economies
- Cultivating subjects for other worlds
- Chapter 13: Constraints
- Consuming to save the planet?
- Money makes the world go 'round
- For-profit policy
- The tragedy of (artificial) scarcity
- Me, myself, and I
- Chapter 14: Enablement
- Supportive infrastructures
- Sustainability-related business models
- Institutional support
- In community we trust
- Trusted subjectivities and devotion
- Chapter 15: Compromise
- Trade-off
- Alternative income sources, charity projects, and social tariffs
- Diversified business and Trojan Horse?
- Self-restriction
- Grey zones
- Self-management
- Non-confrontative confrontation
- Interlude III: Of transition