Self-Devouring Growth : A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa /

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"Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective wellbeing. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that r...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Livingston, Julie (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects.
HISTORY / Africa / South / General
Developpement economique > Aspect de l'environnement > Botswana.
Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects > Botswana.
Economic development > Environmental aspects > Botswana.
Botswana.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue: A planetary parable
  • Rainmaking and other forgotten things
  • In the time of beef
  • Cattle to beef: a photo essay of abstraction
  • Roads, sand, and the motorized cow
  • Power and possibility, or did you know Aesop was once a slave?

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