Serge Latouche on Degrowth as De-Westernization

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* Book: L'occidentalisation du monde. Essai sur la signification, la portée et les limites de l'uniformisation planétaire. Serge Latouche.

URL = https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/auteur/serge_latouche-36127.html


Summary

Reading note from Michel Bauwens, likely based on the following:

- Article: LES MIRAGES DE L’OCCIDENTALISATION DU MONDE. En finir, une fois pour toutes, avec le développement. Par Serge Latouche. LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE Mai 2001

Development IS Westernization, it depends on peculiarly Western concepts and values, which grew in the 17th-18th century, and were based on:

- 1) the mastery of nature

- 2) a quantifying rationality


And that is why these values are not 'universal'.

But the model is no more, witness the drop in aid to 0.25% of GDP of Western countries. It has been replaced by globalization, which does not recognize a special place for the South. It is now only about 'adjustments', emergency aid, provided for by global NGO's. However, it has not killed the underlying belief in economic progress.

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