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'''* Article: Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation. By Arturo Escobar. Sustain Sci (2015) 10:451–462'''

URL = http://www.degrowth.de/en/catalogue-entry/degrowth-postdevelopment-and-transitions-a-preliminary-conversation/

=Abstract=

"This paper seeks to initiate a conversation between
degrowth (DG) and postdevelopment (PD) frameworks
by placing them within the larger field of discourses
for ecological and civilizational transitions and by bridging
proposals emerging from the North with those from the
Global South. Not only can this dialogue, it is argued, be
mutually enriching for both movements but perhaps essential
for an effective politics of transformation. Part I of the paper
presents a brief panorama of transition discourses (TDs),
particularly in the North. Part II discusses succinctly the
main postdevelopment trends in Latin America, including
Buen Vivir (BV), the rights of Nature, civilizational crisis,
and the concept of ‘alternatives to development’. With these
elements in hand, Part III attempts a preliminary dialogue
between degrowth and postdevelopment, identifying points
of convergence and tension; whereas they originate in
somewhat different intellectual traditions and operate
through different epistemic and political practices, they
share closely connected imaginaries, goals, and predicaments,
chiefly, a radical questioning of the core assumption
of growth and economism, a vision of alternative worlds
based on ecological integrity and social justice, and the ever
present risk of cooptation. Important tensions remain, for
instance, around the critique of modernity and the scope for
dematerialization. This part ends by outlining areas of
research on PD that could be of particular interest to degrowth
scholars. The conclusion, finally, envisions the dissolution
of the very binary of ‘Global North’ and ‘Global
South’ by adopting a pluriversal perspective."


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