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The Future is Degrowth
Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals for emancipatory Green New Deals or postcapitalism base their utopian hopes on the development of productive forces, on redistributing the fruits of economic growth and technological pr...
The Imperial Mode of Living
Our Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury, and especially since World War II, has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis and economic and political instability. The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's everyday practices, including individual and societal orientations, as well as...
The End of Cheap Labour?
Can China’s economy overcome its excessive dependence on exports? The Chinese government and international observers argue that this is needed if growth is to be sustained in the future. But substantial growth of domestic consumption can only be achieved if China also steps beyond its reliance on cheap migrant labour. Florian Butollo approaches this issue by means of a thorough empirical investigation of the recent transformation of industries in the Pearl River Delta, China ́s largest industrial hub. He uncovers that industrial upgrading rarely supports improvements in the basic employment pattern in enterprises in the garment and LED lighting industry. This failure of "social upgrading” threatens to undermine the project of a rebalancing of the Chinese economy. The book shows that the implementation of collective labour rights remains an important precondition for the future of the Chinese growth model.
Conflicts of Care
Since the 1980s, increasing numbers of hospitals in the United States have formed internal ethics committees to help doctors and other health care professionals deal with complicated ethical questions, especially those regarding the end of a life. But it is only in recent years that German hospitals have followed suit. In Conflicts of Care, Helen Kohlen offers the first comprehensive look at the origin and function of these committees in German hospitals. Using a mix of archival research, participant observation, and interviews, Kohlen explores the debates that surrounded their formation and the functions they have taken on since their creation.
Handbook on Alternative Global Development
Challenging the dominant and mainstream views in global development, this pioneering Handbook questions the entirety of the development process in order to outline holistic political economies of development, discontents, and alternatives.
Öffentliche Soziologie
Öffentliche Soziologie, wie sie mit dem Konzept der "Public Sociology" in die Diskussion gebracht worden ist, zielt auf den Dialog und engen Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft. Indem gesellschaftlich drängende Fragen auf die soziologische Agenda gesetzt werden und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse öffentlich diskutiert werden, schlägt sie eine Brücke zwischen Alltags- und Gesellschaftskritik. Der Band stellt das Konzept vor, zeigt beispielhaft, wie öffentliche Soziologie international praktiziert wird und welche Aufgaben, Versprechen und Herausforderungen sich im Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft zeigen.
Tương lai sẽ là thoái tăng trưởng – Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan
Khủng hoảng khí hậu, khoảng cách ngày càng tăng giữa những người giàu nhất và những người nghèo nhất, giữa Bắc và Nam Địa cầu, cùng đại dịch COVID-19 đã chứng minh mô hình kinh tế chủ đạo dựa trên tăng trưởng không còn phù hợp với sự phát triển của đời sống. Việc phê phán một hệ thống kinh tế dựa trên tăng trưởng không phải là mới. Từ 50 năm trước đã có những nghiên cứu khoa học cảnh báo rằng việc tiêu thụ tài nguyên của một nền kinh tế ngày một phát triển là không bền vững. Kể từ đó, nhiều giải pháp thay thế cho nền ki...
Umkämpfte Zukunft
Der Klimawandel stellt Gesellschaften weltweit vor gewaltige Herausforderungen. Im Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit scheint ein Konsens darüber, wie mit dieser Bedrohung umgegangen werden kann, kondensiert. Doch die vermeintliche Einmütigkeit kaschiert immer weniger Konflikte darüber, was genau unter Klimaschutz und nachhaltiger Lebensführung zu verstehen ist: Wie und von wem kann das erreicht werden? Und wie verhalten sich diese Bestrebungen zu demokratischen Systemen? 41 Beiträger*innen nähern sich empirisch und konzeptionell den Erzählungen, Vorstellungen und ersten Manifestationen von Zukunft und dem darin implizierten Verhältnis von Demokratie, Nachhaltigkeit und Konflikt an.
Große Transformation? Zur Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften
Der Band entfaltet ein umfassendes Panorama von potentiell tiefgreifenden Veränderungen, mit denen sich moderne Gesellschaften konfrontiert sehen: ökologische Gefahren, Ungleichheiten, Finanzkrisen, niedriges Wirtschaftswachstum, Fluchtmigration und Nationalismus sind einige der großen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Der Band widmet sich der Analyse und Deutung der damit verbundenen Problemstellungen. Er präsentiert Zukunftsaussichten, aber auch Chancen und Alternativen, die gesellschaftliche Transformationen bieten.
Capitalism and Labor
Der Gesellschaftstheorie ist die Arbeit und mit ihr die empirische Fundierung abhandengekommen, der Arbeitssoziologie die Theorie - aufgrund dieses Befundes wurde "Kapitalismustheorie und Arbeit" zum Standardwerk. Die Autorinnen und Autoren diskutieren nun in der aktualisierten englischen Auflage des Bandes die gegenwärtigen theoretischen Ansätze, um Kapitalismus und Arbeit wieder zusammenzudenken.
