Accidental Degrowth Practices: Illustrations from Czechia

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Accidental Degrowth Practices: Illustrations from Czechia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Accidental Degrowth Practices: Illustrations from Czechia

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

ISBN

978-1-032-64524-7

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

111-125

Počet stran knihy

530

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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