Introduction. The End of Political Economy as We Knew it? From Growth Realism to Nomadic Utopianism
Stefania Barca, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson
Part 1: Critical Political Economies
Chapter 1. The Limits of Systems: Economics, Management and the Problematization of Growth During the Golden Age of Capitalism
Alexander Paulsson
Chapter 2. Reorienting Comparative Political Economy: From Economic Growth to Sustainable Alternatives
Hubert Buch-Hansen
Chapter 3. The Topicality of André Gorz’s Political Ecology: Rethinking 1977 Écologie Et Libertè to (Re)Connect Marxism and Degrowth
Emanuele Leonardi
Chapter 4. Growth and Degrowth in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
Max Koch
Chapter 5. The Historical Roots of a Feminist ‘Degrowth’: Maria Mies and Marilyn Waring’s Critiques of Growth
Catia Gregoratti and Riya Raphael
Part Two: Emerging Terrains
Chapter 6. Degrowth in Theory, Pursuit of Growth in Action: Exploring the Russian and Soviet Contexts
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya
Chapter 7. Countering the Order of Progress: Colonialism, Extractivism and Re-Existence in the Brazilian Amazon
Felipe Milanez
Chapter 8. Degrowth, Devaluation and Uneven Development from North to South
Patrick Bond
Chapter 9. Degrowth in Practice? Unraveling the Post-Political Effects of Slow City (Cittaslow) Movement in the Anatolian Town of Halfeti Xalfetî
Mine Islar and Gökhan Gülbandilar
Part Three: Contested Concepts
Chapter 10. “An Alternative Worth Fighting For”: Degrowth and the Liberation of Work
Stefania Barca
Chapter 11. The Imperative of Redesigning Money to Achieve Degrowth
Alf Hornborg
Chapter 12. Problematising Self-Sufficiency: A Historical Exploration of the “Autarky” Concept
Santiago Gorostiza
Chapter 13. Having, Doing, Loving, Being: Sustainable Well-Being for a Post-Growth Society
Tuula Helne and Tuuli Hirvilammi
Chapter 14. The State of Degrowth
Giacomo D’Alisa