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Making Transformative Geographies – Lessons from Stuttgart′s Community Economy

Benedikt Schmid author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:10th Dec '21

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In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity and ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, »Making Transformative Geographies« speaks about the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond accumulation and growth. Covering an empirical sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart (Germany), the book drills down into the social, spatial, and strategic dimensions of transformation. It advances a conceptually and empirically grounded assessment of the possibilities and limitations of community activism and civic engagement for shifting transformative geographies towards a degrowth trajectory.

»By looking in depth at these eco-social organizations, this book gives careful hope and carves strategies for radical trajectories, becoming an important addition to discussions around degrowth and post-capitalist geographies.« Xavier Balaguer Rasillo, https://antipodeonline.org, 11.12.2020 Besprochen in: ORLIS, 9 (2020) www.kommunalweb.de, 9 (2020) Urban Geography, 27.01.2021, Ella Hubbard Eurasian Geography and Economics, 63/1 (2022), Jan Bartsch/Markus Sattler

ISBN: 9783837651409

Dimensions: 226mm x 147mm x 15mm

Weight: 666g

360 pages