ISBN:
9781349951765
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (301 pages)
Series Statement:
International Political Economy Series
Series Statement:
International Political Economy Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Garcia, Ernest Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society : Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing
DDC:
320
Keywords:
Anthropology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction -- Mapping the Challenges -- Post-Carbon Research Project -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I: Transition -- chapter 1: The Deadlock of the Thermo-Industrial Civilization: The (Impossible?) Energy Transition in the Anthropocene -- Foreword: Nature and the Concept of Historical Trajectory -- Technology as a European Pre-Industrial Social Fact -- A Brief Socio-Anthropological Approach to the Anthropocene: A Positivist Metaphysics of Nature -- The Dark Side of the Term Anthropocene -- Work and Energy: The Conceptual Victory of the "Thermo-Industry" -- The Time of Transition: Trajectory Versus Trend -- Work and Energy, Strange Conceptual Inventions -- The Three Phenomenological Phases of the Thermo-Industry -- The First Transition Phase: Viscous Mobility and Network Design -- The Second Transition Phase: Oil and Liquid Mobility, the Implementation of Technical Macro-Systems -- The Third Phase of the Energy Transition and the New Stage of the Thermo-Industrial Way: The Obsession with Immediacy and the Absolute Flow of Electricity -- The Issue of Energy Cannibalism in the Transition to Electricity and the German Dilemma -- The Temporality of Evolution and Technological Evolutionism -- Is Another Transition Way Possible? -- Conclusion: Rupture Beyond Transition -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Uncertainties, Inertia and Cognitive and Psychosocial Obstacles to a Smooth Transition -- Introduction -- Obstacles to Adequate Perception -- Exponential Growth -- The Tyranny of Small Decisions or the Isolation Paradox -- The Mythification of Progress -- Intentional Manipulation of Consciousness -- The Physical Limits of the Planet and Their Consequences: The Need for a Systemic or Holistic Vision -- Between Informed Lucidity and the Paralysis of Will -- Social and Mental Inertias
Abstract:
Extreme Interdependencies and the Dangers of Apraxia -- Mental Inertias and Cultural Dynamism: Which Will Prevail? -- The Idea of Austerity as a Source of Confusion -- Does Austerity Mean Living Worse? -- Austerity and Ecological Footprint -- The Transition to a 100% Renewable Energy Model -- Reducing Transport -- Is Solidarity Possible in a Context of Scarcity? -- On Complexity, Sustainability and Resilience -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Towards the Post-Carbon Society: Searching for Signs of the Transition and Identifying Obstacles -- The Post-Carbon Transition: Signs of the Future in the Present -- Macro-Structural Signs and Their Interpretation -- The Unimaginable Transition: How Today's Anxieties Block Visions of a Different Tomorrow -- The Post-Carbon Transition is Absent from the Collective Imagination -- In the Collective Consciousness, the Transition is Primarily a Matter of Technology -- The Oppressive Weight of the Present Stifles Our Ability to Imagine the Future -- Nothing Will Be Like Before -- Cuts Lead to Unsustainable Poverty -- Post-Carbon, Overshoot, Way Down, Austerity -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 4: The Degrowth Imperative: Reducing Energy and Resource Consumption as an Essential Component in Achieving Carbon Budget Targets -- Carbon Budget Targets: Implications for Economic Growth Goals and Paradigms -- Decarbonization and Degrowth: Frequently Asked Questions and Key Debates -- Are the Global Warming and Carbon Budget Targets Underpinning the Case for Planned Degrowth Overstated or Understated? -- Will Existing Technological Solutions Be Sufficient to Stay Within the Global Carbon Budget? -- How Can the Global Social Equity and Economic Well-Being Implications of a Deliberate Reduction in Energy and Resource Consumption Be Addressed?
Abstract:
Will Raising the Case for Degrowth Undermine Political Support for Decisive Climate Action? -- What Political Strategies Could Plausibly Build Broad Support for Rapid and Comprehensive Reductions in Consumption and Production? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Rethinking Austerity -- chapter 5: Austerity Pasts, Austerity Futures? -- Introduction -- History as Symbolic Resource -- Securing Consent for Economic Austerity -- Eco-Austerity, Co-Opted? -- Austerity for Transition and Degrowth -- Notes -- References -- chapter 6: Coffee, Toast and a Tip? Initial Reflections on the Transformation of the Self -- Context-Dependent Decisions -- Our Closest Context and Environment: The Other Human Beings in the Groups We Belong to -- Is the New Man Really Just the Old Man in New Situations? -- How Can the After Engender the Before? -- Politico-Moral Self-Construction -- Who Educates the Educator? -- What Type of Self-Construction? -- Decentring and Transforming the Self: Mitigating Egocentricity -- Conversion: Epistrophe and Metanoia -- The Temptation to Become Gods -- Towards a Pedagogy of Self-Control -- Love One Another or Die -- Intellectual and Moral Reform -- We Never Tire of the Sisyphean Task of Being Human -- Notes -- References -- chapter 7: Frugal Abundance in an Age of Limits: Envisioning a Degrowth Economy -- Introduction -- Framing and Contextualizing the Analysis -- Envisioning an Austerity of Degrowth -- Water -- Food -- Clothing -- Housing -- Energy -- Transport -- Work and Production -- Money, Markets and Exchange -- Technology -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part III: Case Studies -- CHAPTER 8: Cloughjordan Ecovillage: Modelling the Transition to a Low-Carbon Society -- Introduction -- Cloughjordan Ecovillage -- Ecovillages and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Society
Abstract:
Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Society: The Cloughjordan Experience -- Energy -- Land Management, Water and Waste -- Sustainable Building -- Community Issues -- Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) -- Livelihoods -- Community -- Governing for the Transition: The Viable Systems Model (VSM) -- Measuring the Transition: Cloughjordan's Ecological Footprint -- Conclusions: Harvesting the Lessons -- References -- Chapter 9: Challenges for Wind Turbines in the Energy Transition: The Example of an Offshore Wind Farm in France -- A Project Centred Solely on Production -- Energy for the Large Electricity Network -- The Limitations of the Dialogue -- Alternative Energy -- Wind Power Versus Nuclear Power -- Giving a New Meaning to Progress -- Sea Against Fire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Social Partners, Environmental Issues and New Challenges in the Post-Carbon Society -- Social Partners and Environmental Issues -- Employers and the Environmental Challenge -- Trade Unions and the Environmental Challenge -- The Post-Carbon Society: A Long-Term Reality? -- Social Partners' Perception of a Post-Carbon Society -- Note -- References -- chapter 11: Landfill Culture: Some Implications to Degrowth -- Introduction -- Waste Policy and Management Practices as the Basis of Landfill Culture -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 12: Social Actions Transformed in a Post-Carbon Transition: The Case of Barcelona -- Neighbourhood Study -- Transition to a Post-Carbon Society -- Transition in the Neighbourhood of Sant Martí-La Verneda -- Participative Energy Plan -- Urban Gardens -- Social Justice and the Impacts of Redistribution -- Degrowth -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Conclusion -- The Nature of the Transition -- Politics and the Transition -- From Technology to Ethics -- Social Experimentalism -- Reconstructing Austerity -- References -- Index
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