Reseña de libro The Case for Degrowth

Abstract

The Case for Degrowth, by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, and Federico Demaria (2020), offers an excellent introduction to the degrowth approach for those unfamiliar with it. Written in four voices and from an interdisciplinary perspective, it is a fairly short book, lacking excessive bibliographic references and openly oriented toward convincing a reader of the feasibility and urgent need for a degrowth transformation project. At the same time, it directly and succinctly addresses the most traditional and repeated counterarguments in academic and non-academic forums. The four authors have been involved in the European degrowth debate for over a decade: Kallis, D’Alisa, and Demaria from political ecology and ecological economics perspectives, and Paulson from anthropology, with extensive work in Latin America. As they themselves have recounted, The Case for Degrowth condenses years of conversation and encounters that have elevated degrowth as a research agenda and a form of activism.