Making transformative geographies : lessons from Stuttgart's community economy / Benedikt Schmid.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Focus and research question -- Contributions -- Limitations -- Structure -- Part I: From a growing economy to a-growth economies -- Chapter 1: Growth in the Capitalocene -- Why are we growth addicted? -- Escalation -- Limits -- Green growth -- an oxymoron? -- Why grow in the first place? -- Interim conclusion -- Chapter 2: Alternative economies -- Alterity and diversity -- Degrowth -- Postcapitalism -- Towards a radical theory and praxis -- Chapter 3: Transformation, transition, and agency -- Sustainability transition research

Grassroots innovations and the social economy -- Agents and allies of transformation -- Transition, transformation, and politics -- Interlude I: Geographies of change -- Part II: Transformative geographies: space, politics and change -- Chapter 4: Reimagining togetherness -- Community -- Community economy -- Economic diversity -- Poststructuralist transformative geographies -- Epistemic fallacy? -- Chapter 5: Materialization -- From regimes of signification to practice -- Practice theories -- Working with the concept of practice -- Institutions and organizations in practice

Chapter 6: Scale and power in transformative geographies -- Scale -- Power -- Chapter 7: From transformative geographies to a degrowth transition -- Interventions in practice -- Towards a degrowth transition -- Degrowth practices and politics -- Operationalization: the diverse logics perspective -- Interlude II: Strategies for transformation -- Part III: Researching transformative geographies -- Chapter 8: A practice theory methodology -- Chapter 9: Planning and conducting research on a degrowth case study -- The case of Stuttgart -- Research design -- Chapter 10: Research as practice

Participatory action research -- Positionality and self-reflection -- Chapter 11: Data analysis -- Coding and coding frames: an overview -- From conceptual framework to coding frames -- Triangulation and final coding -- Part IV: Stuttgart's community economy -- Of infidels and agnostics -- Chapter 12: Alternatives -- Slow technology -- supporting sufficiency and subsistence -- Unlocking a sustainable local economy -- A politics of pragmatism -- Trust-based economies -- Cultivating subjects for other worlds -- Chapter 13: Constraints -- Consuming to save the planet?

Money makes the world go 'round -- For-profit policy -- The tragedy of (artificial) scarcity -- Me, myself, and I -- Chapter 14: Enablement -- Supportive infrastructures -- Sustainability-related business models -- Institutional support -- In community we trust -- Trusted subjectivities and devotion -- Chapter 15: Compromise -- Trade-off -- Alternative income sources, charity projects, and social tariffs -- Diversified business and Trojan Horse? -- Self-restriction -- Grey zones -- Self-management -- Non-confrontative confrontation -- Interlude III: Of transition

Part V: A degrowth transition in practice

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, Benedikt Schmid speaks about the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond growth-based economies. Covering an empirical sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart (Germany), the study 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 civil engagement in shifting transformative geographies towards a degrowth trajectory.

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