GROWL - Living Degrowth
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Degrowth theory

This module brings theoretical binding element, enabling core theoretical and empirical knowledge on degrowth, to be articulated with the different contributed thematic modules.

It works towards a good understanding and complementarity between all those that wish to promote degrowth learning from its multiple and diversified perspectives.

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Introduction to the diversal degrowth

The diversal degrowth

Different angles to approach and get introduced to the degrowth theory and praxis.
1. Definitions
Where we see that degrowth can take very different meanings
2. Sources
Where we understand the various preocupations behind degrowth
3. History of a degrowth movement
Where see that old and new streams of concerns have somewhat converged into something that could look like a degrowth movement
4. Scales
Where we see that degrowth links the local to the global and vice versa
5. Strategies & Actors
Where we understand that strategies of degrowth are not unique (opposition, alternatives, reform) and that actors have often several hats (activists, researchers, practitionners, artists)
6. Narratives & Pathways

Concepts

Where we understand a large array of ideas that are useful in a degrowth path

1. Debound

2. Energy sovereignty

Environmental Justice Organizations:
see http://www.ejolt.org/2013/02/environmental-injustice/

3. Open-localisation

4. Politics and degrowth transformations

5. Ecofeminist degrowth or Barbarity 

Reproductive sphere

6. Degrowth vs liberalism and anticapitalism

7. What links between social security and degrowth ?

Capital accumulation: see http://www.ejolt.org/2015/02/accumulation-contamination/ and
http://www.ejolt.org/2013/02/accumulation-by-dispossession/

8. Anti-extractivism, socio-environmental conflicts and values

Social metabolism http://www.ejolt.org/2012/11/social-metabolism-and-accounting-tools/

9. Macroeconomics of degrowth

10. Peak oil and peak all

11. Adjustment of capacities

12. Diversel

Hegemony

13. Happiness

14. Heteronomy - Autonomy

15. Detox

Reference authors

1. André Gorz 

2. Fred Hirsch

3. Karl Polanyi

4. “The dispossessed” Ursula K. Le Guin

5. À grande vitesse: The world according to Paul Virilio

The idea is now to debate to build collectivelly our own degrowth stories out of crises, and where we understand the links between degrowth proposals, scales and strategies of action
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The GROWL book