Degrowth - Concept Repertoire for a New Era

The well-being and development of societies are explained by most economists and politicians with the concept of "growth". We see that different political and economic views agree on "growth".

Today's rapid impoverishment, increasing inequalities and social-ecological disasters are also the results of lack of growth or underdevelopment, according to the dominant discourse: "Those who do not grow, those who stagnate, die." The book in your hand argues that the cause of these problems is precisely growth, that growth has become extremely costly, ecologically unsustainable and inherently unfair, and that mythical beliefs based on "growth" should be abandoned. For this, it is necessary to stop thinking in terms that sustain the growth imagination and make economics no longer a science. We need a new vocabulary because the economic language in use is inadequate to express what needs to be expressed. The degrowth movement, which was first started in France by a group of activists and intellectuals and then spread all over the world, calls for the abandonment of economic growth as a social goal. The concept of “degrowth” represents the path to societies that consume fewer natural resources and are organized around completely different principles. Words such as simplicity, conviviality, autonomy, care, commons also shed light on what degrowth societies might look like.

We hope that this collection will be a valuable source of information and inspiration for all those who not only think that another world is possible, but also struggle to build it now.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 320

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish