Accidental Degrowth Practices: Illustrations from Czechia

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Alternative codes found

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Accidental Degrowth Practices: Illustrations from Czechia

Original language description

This chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (2025) challenges prevailing conceptualisations of degrowth, which portray it mainly as a result of deliberate political strategies. It argues that this perspective often overlooks practices that align with the degrowth movement in various ways but are undertaken outside of it – by actors unaware of degrowth, who lack specific degrowth goals – and often result from trajectories which are not straightforward. Using an empirical example from Central and Eastern Europe, from an applied research project in the Czech Republic focusing on the introduction of a collaborative housing concept (a practice aligned with degrowth), the chapter engages in a conversation with authors who focus on similar practices, calling them everyday degrowth, quiet degrowth or real-existing degrowth, and proposes a new concept of accidental degrowth. By using the word ‘accidental’, the focus is on practices characterised not only by a lack of intentionality but also by haphazardness, uncertain goals and non-linear, fuzzy results, and show the crucial role of affects and emotions when engaging with unaware actors outside the movement. The concept reflects the inevitable complexity and accidentality of the processes by which new realities potentially aligned with degrowth principles emerge, and sometimes disappear.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

ISBN

978-1-032-64524-7

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

111-125

Number of pages of the book

530

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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