Edited by Julien-François Gerber and Rajeswari S. Raina
Post-Growth Thinking in India: Towards Sustainable Egalitarian Alternatives
- Orient BlackSwan 2018
Contents: Introduction/Julien-Francois Gerber and Rajeswari S. Raina. Part I: Why Growth is not the Answer. 1. Growth Creates Poverty/Vandana Shiva. 2. Beyond Productivism: Socialism, Waste, Obsolescence/Aditya Nigam. 3. Energetics: The Energy Principles that Define Growth/Mansoor Khan. 4. Energy and Sustainability: Why Green Capitalism is an Oxymoron/Sagar Dhara. Part II: Conceptual Concerns and Contexts. 5. Degrowth and All That: Insights from Economic Analysis/Vinod Vyasulu. 6. Technology, Growth and Environmental Justice/Sukumar Muralidharan. 7. Developmental Context: People, state and contested arenas/Ajay Dandekar. 8. On Consumption and Violence: An Idea of India/Shiv Visvanathan. Part III: Elements of a Post-Growth Programme. 9. GDP and its Discontents: A Note on Ideas of Economic Progress and their Relevance for India/Jayati Ghosh. 10. Articulating Green Growth and Degrowth: Approaches, Practice and Enabling Institutions/Kanchan Chopra. 11. Radical Ecological Democracy: An Orchestration of Alternatives for a Post-Growth India/Ashish Kothari. 12. Degrowth as Economy of Permanence/Rajni Bakshi. 13. Universal Human Values for a Post-Industrial Economy/Ganesh Prasad Bagaria and Rajul Asthana. 14. Localisation: The Post-Growth Path to Genuine Prosperity/Helena Norberg-Hodge. Epilogue/Joan Martínez-Alier. Notes on the Editors and Contributors. Index. The Indian sub-continent has long been involved in global capitalism. While some parts of India are like the Global North in terms of lifestyle and wealth, the majority is clearly part of the poor and exploited Global South. As the state and the market became key actors in the economy, GDP growth has emerged as the central policy goal. Presently, as a rapidly growing economy with widening inequality and huge environmental problems, India needs to rethink its social ecological transitions. Post-Growth Thinking in India discusses the relevance of prosperity without growth , or post-growth for India, at a time when grassroots alternatives confront and question the consequences of growth. Post-growth calls for a resizing and reorganisation of the social metabolism that would allow societies to live within their ecological means, and within democratic, equitable, and localised economies. This book presents diverse alternatives to the current growth-driven model of development. The chapters in this book, some of which are Indian contributions to knowledge and policy, seek diverse alternatives to the current growth-driven model of development
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