Democracies with a future: Degrowth and the democratic tradition

Marco Deriu. 2012.  Futures vol. 44, pp. 553–561.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2012.03.016

The interrogation of a possible connection between degrowth and democracy inspires some questions of political epistemology. Is degrowth a socio-economic project which can be simply proposed as an ‘‘issue’’ and a ‘‘goal’’ in the democratic representative system, without discussing forms and processes of the political institutions themselves? Continue reading →