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Edgar Morin and the art of rebalancing what needs to grow, degrow and be stabilized.

Author:
François Gillet

Entry type:
Scientific paper

Year of publication:
2014

Publishers:
Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Language:
English

Tags:

complexe thinking, growth, degrowth , stabilization

Abstract: There are so many different “definitions” about degrowth … The one proposed by Edgar Morin is “an art of rebalancing what has to grow, to degrow and to be stabilized”. We will look on this idea through a complexe thinking and simple acting perspective, crossing three interesting paradoxes: • Globalization / localization • Occidentalization/pluralization • Development / Envelopment Degrowth as an Art of rebalancing means to take in consideration - in the same time and on different levels - those three mentioned paradoxes allowing seeing -and acting on- what has to grow, to degrow and to be stabilized.
Keywords: complexe thinking, growth, degrowth , stabilization.
Narrative step: visions or strategies for transformation

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