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Le terme «décroissance » sonne comme un défi ou une provocation, même si nous savons bien qu'une croissance infinie est incompatible avec une planète finie. L'objet de cet ouvrage est de montrer que si un changement radical est une nécessité absolue, le choix volontaire d'une société de décroissance est un pari qui vaut la peine d'être tenté pour éviter un recul brutal et dramatique. Il s'agit donc d'une proposition nécessaire pour rouvrir l'espace de l'inventivité et de la créativité de l'imaginaire bloqué par le totalitarisme économiciste, développementiste et progressiste. Bien évidemment, elle ne vise pas au renversement caricatural qui consisterait à prôner la décroissance pour la décroissance. Celle-ci n'est envisageable que dans une « société de décroissance », c'est-à-dire dans le cadre d'un système reposant sur une autre logique. Reste le plus difficile : comment construire une société soutenable, y compris au Sud ? Il faut en expliciter les diverses étapes : changer de valeurs et de concepts, changer de structures, relocaliser l'économie et la vie, revoir nos modes d'usage des produits, répondre au défi spécifique des pays du Sud. Enfin, il faut assurer la transition de notre société de croissance à la société de décroissance par les mesures appropriées. La décroissance est un enjeu politique, et il est d'ores et déjà certain qu'elle ne sera pas absente du débat électoral de 2007.
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Le terme «décroissance » sonne comme un défi ou une provocation, même si nous savons bien qu'une croissance infinie est incompatible avec une planète finie. L'objet de cet ouvrage est de montrer que si un changement radical est une nécessité absolue, le choix volontaire d'une société de décroissance est un pari qui vaut la peine d'être tenté pour éviter un recul brutal et dramatique. Il s'agit donc d'une proposition nécessaire pour rouvrir l'espace de l'inventivité et de la créativité de l'imaginaire bloqué par le totalitarisme économiciste, développementiste et progressiste. Bien évidemment, elle ne vise pas au renversement caricatural qui consisterait à prôner la décroissance pour la décroissance. Celle-ci n'est envisageable que dans une « société de décroissance », c'est-à-dire dans le cadre d'un système reposant sur une autre logique. Reste le plus difficile : comment construire une société soutenable, y compris au Sud ? Il faut en expliciter les diverses étapes : changer de valeurs et de concepts, changer de structures, relocaliser l'économie et la vie, revoir nos modes d'usage des produits, répondre au défi spécifique des pays du Sud. Enfin, il faut assurer la transition de notre société de croissance à la société de décroissance par les mesures appropriées. La décroissance est un enjeu politique, et il est d'ores et déjà certain qu'elle ne sera pas absente du débat électoral de 2007.
Author: Serge Latouche Publisher: Polity ISBN: 0745646174 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 133
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Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems – namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only goal is growth for growth’s sake. Serge Latouche argues that we need to rethink from the very foundations the idea that our societies should be based on growth. He offers a radical alternative – a society of ‘de-growth’. De-growth is not the same thing as negative growth. We should be talking about ‘a-growth’, in the sense in which we speak of ‘a-theism’. And we do indeed have to abandon a faith or religion – that of the economy, progress and development—and reject the irrational and quasi-idolatrous cult of growth for growth’s sake. While many realize that that the never-ending pursuit of growth is incompatible with a finite planet, we have yet to come to terms with the implications of this – the need to produce less and consume less. But if we do not change course, we are heading for an ecological and human disaster. There is still time to imagine, quite calmly, a system based upon a different logic, and to plan for a ‘de-growth society’.
Author: Pascal Bruckner Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0745670148 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 153
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The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground. Modern society’s susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from what Bruckner calls “the seductive attraction of disaster,” as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse. Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way.
Author: Gilbert Rist Publisher: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN: 184813925X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 213
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In The Delusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Rist instead explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented', and the resultant biases that helped forge the construction of economics as a 'science'. In doing so, Rist demonstrates how these various presuppositions are either obsolete or just plain wrong, and that traditional economics is largely based on irrational convictions that are difficult to debunk due to their 'religious' nature. As a result, we are prevented from properly understanding the world around us and dealing with the financial, environmental, and climatic crises that lie ahead. Provocative and original, this essential book provides incontrovertible proof that the construction of a new economic paradigm - pluralistic, ecologically compatible, grounded in reality - has now become a necessity.
Author: Elisa Orofino Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000823830 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 547
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This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North. Whilst acknowledging the potentiality of non-violent extremism as a precursor to terrorism, this Handbook argues that non-violent extremism ought to be considered a stand-alone area of study. Focusing on Islamist, Buddhist, Hindu, far-right, far-left, environmentalist and feminist manifestations, the Handbook discusses the ideological foundation of their ‘war on ideas’ against the prevailing socio-political and cultural systems in which they operate, and provides an empirical examination of their main claims and perspectives. This is supplemented by a truly global overview of non-violent extremist groups not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. The Handbook thus answers a call to decolonise knowledge that is especially prescient given both the complicity of non-violent extremists with authoritarian states and the dynamic of oppression towards more progressive groups in the Global South. The Handbook will appeal to those studying extremism, radicalisation and terrorism. It intersects several relevant disciplines, including social movement studies, political science, criminology, Islamic studies and anthropology.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob ISBN: 2738184766 Category : Languages : en Pages : 385
Author: Catherine Bruguière Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400772815 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 591
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This book features 35 of best papers from the 9th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2011, held in Lyon, France, September 5th-9th 2011. The ESERA international conference featured some 1,200 participants from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe as well as North and South America offering insight into the field at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This book presents studies that represent the current orientations of research in science education and includes studies in different educational traditions from around the world. It is organized into six parts around the three poles (content, students, teachers) and their interrelations of science education: after a general presentation of the volume (first part), the second part concerns SSI (Socio-Scientific Issues) dealing with new types of content, the third the teachers, the fourth the students, the fifth the relationships between teaching and learning, and the sixth the teaching resources and the curricula.
Author: Bruno Frère Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030189872 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 309
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This book studies those who, in various domains of life, are resisting the increasingly harsh day-to-day pressures of “late capitalism,” centering mainly on French examples. Far from the global euphoria of the sixties and seventies, everyday people are trying to loosen the grip of injustice in very concrete ways: people experiencing homelessness try to occupy and live in empty buildings; collectives of small farmers and consumers avoid long (and costly) commercial supply chains to defend their common interests; students and teachers organize to prevent the expulsion of undocumented migrants; and activists in the free software movement fight for the “common ownership” of software and of the Internet. Through civil disobedience in the midst of daily life, people are trying to resist, work against, and change laws that protect the interests of firms and corporations considered socially or ecologically unfair.
Author: Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1782252770 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 297
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Today's world is post-colonial and post-Cold War. These twin characteristics explain why international society is also riddled with the two major forms of injustice which Nancy Fraser identified as afflicting national societies. First, the economic and social disparities between states caused outcry in the 1950s when the first steps were taken towards decolonisation. These inequalities, to which a number of emerging states now contribute, are still glaring and still pose the problem of the gap between formal equality and true equality. Second, international society is increasingly confronted with culture- and identity-related claims, stretching the dividing line between equality and difference. The less-favoured states, those that feel stigmatised, but also native peoples, ethnic groups, minorities and women now aspire to both legal recognition of their equal dignity and the protection of their identities and cultures. Some even seek reparation for injustices arising from the past violation of their identities and the confiscation of their property or land. In answer to these two forms of claim, the subjects of international society have come up with two types of remedy encapsulated in legal rules: the law of development and the law of recognition. These two sets of rights are neither wholly autonomous and individualised branches of law nor formalised sets of rules. They are imperfect and have their dark side. Yet they can be seen as the first milestones towards what might become a fairer international society; one that is both equitable (as an answer to socio-economic injustice) and decent (as an answer to cultural injustice). This book explores this evolution in international society, setting it in historical perspective and examining its presuppositions and implications.
Author: Tariq Ramadan Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195331710 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 385
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In this new book, Tariq Ramadan argues that it is crucial to find theoretical and practical solutions that will enable Western Muslims to remain faithful to Islamic ethics while fully living within their societies and their time. He notes that Muslim scholars often refer to the notion of ijtihad (critical and renewed reading of the foundational texts) as the only way for Muslims to take up these modern challenges. But, Ramadan argues, in practice such readings have effectively reached the limits of their ability to serve the faithful in the West as well as the East. In this book he sets forward a radical new concept of ijtihad, which puts context -- including the knowledge derived from the hard and human sciences, cultures and their geographic and historical contingencies -- on an equal footing with the scriptures as a source of Islamic law.
Author: Serge Latouche
Author: Serge Latouche
Author: Serge Latouche
Author: Pascal Bruckner
Author: Gilbert Rist
Author: Elisa Orofino
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Author: Catherine Bruguière
Author: Bruno Frère
Author: Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet
Author: Tariq Ramadan