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Reclaiming sustainable space - A study of degrowth activists

Authors:
Javier Lloveras, Cathy Parker, Lee Quinn

Entry type:
Scientific paper

Year of publication:
2017

Publishers:
SAGE Marketing Theory

Language:
English

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Keywords: Activism, consumption, degrowth, place, space

Abstract: While degrowth debates typically encompass abstract ecological and economic arguments against growth, our study considers how degrowth-minded activism becomes interwoven with the production and consumption of space and place. Drawing illustrative insights from an ethnographic study in the city of Seville, our findings reveal a configuration of practices (accessibility, self-organisation, reproduction and conviviality) through which degrowth-minded activism infuses urban life with noncapitalist processes and logics. Consequently, our work contributes to a paucity of studies theorising the production/consumption of space in relation to broader processes of capitalist development. In doing so, we also promote a more humane consideration of the spatial dimensions through which more equitable ways of living are constituted.

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