CALL FOR PAPERS

• Targeted journal: Development and Change
• Special issue on “Framing Degrowth: From Diagnosis to Development Alternatives”
• Guest editors: Joan Martinez-Alier, Esteve Corbera, Viviana Asara, Federico Demaria, Iago Otero; all editors are affiliated with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Ecological Economics and Integrated Assessment Unit, Barcelona, Spain.
• Further enquiries about the special issue can be directed to Viviana Asara (viviana.asara@uab.cat).

DEADLINES AND GUIDELINES

• Abstracts (between 300 and 500 words) should be submitted by September 15, 2013 to viviana.asara@uab.cat.
• Final drafts (between 8,000 to 10,000 words including notes and references) should be submitted by October 30, 2013 to viviana.asara@uab.cat.
• Please follow the Authors’ Guidelines at the journal’s website.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

The degrowth movement has emerged in the last decade in some European countries. It is a movement built around a critique of the growth economy, which draws strongly on the “limits to growth” and strong sustainability debates of the 1970s. The underlying premises are that continuous economic growth is ecologically unsound and economically unsustainable and that it is no longer improving social welfare and happiness (Jackson, 2011). Degrowth was first launched in the beginning of the 21st century as a project of voluntary societal shrinking of production and consumption aimed at social and ecological sustainability (Demaria et. al, 2013) and quickly developed into a social movement. It later entered academic journals. This special issue aims at articulating the degrowth critique, proposal, and movement through a framework composed of four different axes: critique to growth societies, degrowth policies, actors and strategies for degrowth, and alternative world-visions.

(A more elaborate description of the degrowth movement’s history and progression can be found alongside the original, official call for papers.)

References

• Demaria, F., F. Schneider, F. Sekulova and J. Martinez-Alier. 2013. “What is Degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement.” Environmental Values 22: 191–215.
• Jackson, T. 2009. “Prosperity Without Growth?” Sustainable Development Commission.