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Our new book 🚀🐌✊🏾 #Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformtion

A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination. 📘Published @Zer0Books & with CC licence. Whats it about, whos in it? 👉🏽THREAD 1/

There have been many books on the concepts of alternative economies, on the #GreenNewDeal, a #wellbeing economy, #postcapitalism or #degrowth. But what about the practices?

How can the transformation of society be conceptualized? And how can we built alliances for this? 2/

Degrowth is not just a new term for an ongoing discussion on alternatives or a thriving academic research paradigm.

Its also an emerging social movement that overlaps considerably with other social movements – from #BasicIncome to #commons #unions #cooperatives #Feminism /3

Our recent open letter on degrowth #NewRoots demonstrates the scope of degrowth - over 1000 experts and activists from over 60 countries, translated into 17(!) languages..
But what are the links to other social movements, and how can we build alliances? /4

https://twitter.com/ManuelGrebe/status/1260539625447272448

In the introduction with Corinna Burkhart @Degrowth_info and Nina Treu @NeueOekonomie we summarize key lessons from this two-year networking project: Commonalities and differences among the social movements, common difficulties, and shared strategies. /5

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The chapters in the book not only introduce #degrowth and discuss the capitalist growth imperative. More than 20 chapters analyze the relationship between degrowth and social #movements.
Each chapter is written by protagonists of these movements and answers 5 questions 👇🏼 /6

So whats in the book? Here are the chapters of #Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation. With preface by Donatella della Porta and forward by Barbara Muraca /7

With contributions from and about @Ende__Gelaende @AlbertoAcostaE @Care_Revolution @ae_interact @Attacd @futurzwei_org @klimacamp @_verdi @nyeleni_de @Commonify @nyeleni_at @MuellerTadzio @BUNDjugend @Schnecken_Post @danyellow20 /8

With contributions from and about @chikikothari @SolOek @kainiebert @bund_net @transitiontowns @anstiftung @ariwa_eV @JonathanB4RTH @christoph_gran @AttacAustria #opensource #LeaveNoOneBehind and many more. /9

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A book about what we call „masaic of alternatives“

„Just as a mosaic can unfold its beauty as a complete work even though every individual piece is still recognizable as such, a newly founded left could be seen as a heterogeneous collective actor“ (unionist Hans-Jürgen Urban)/10

This is not an exercise in intellectual self-reflection or academic critique. Rather, the volume is a constructive dialogue between social movements and projects for an alternative economy. We actively look for common perspectives, strategies and concrete courses of action. /11

For @chikikothari, involved in similar process in India and author, the key achievement of Degrowth in Movement(s): to identify “the essence of these initiatives, and to see if the values and principles emerging from them can suggest a cohesive framework” for common struggles /12

So glad this book on #degrowth is published with @Zer0Books, who have so far published books from the eco-modernist left.

Lets hope this book fosters a productive debate, crossing the divide between the productivist left of socialist futurism & growth-critical bottom-up left /13

"In writing a rich guide for how to change the world these chapters have, for some of their authors, been a process of metamorphosis. The same can be true for you.“

Thank you @_RajPatel for your endorsement – and for thinking of our book as a flint sparking transformations! /14

We believe all knowledge should be shared, a #commons.

So the entire book is CC-licensed 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 But please do support the publisher and your local bookshop. For a free PDF, email to [e-mail]

For more info and videos, check out here. /end
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