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Antje Linkenbach, Vidhu Verma - Radical Imaginaries of Life Beyond 'Growth', Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Radical Imaginaries of Life Beyond 'Growth'

Challenges and Pathways

Av Antje Linkenbach, Vidhu Verma

Del i serien Politics and Society in India and the Global South

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This book offers a compelling rethinking of de/post-growth as a holistic concept, a critical discourse, and a transformative practice. Bringing together interdisciplinary and global perspectives, the volume is situated at the intersection of debates on modernity, decolonisation, ecological economics, and sustainability. It challenges the dominant social imaginary of limitless growth, bringing forward instead diverse visions and creative experiments that seek to reimagine what it means to live well in more equitable, convivial, and ecologically sustainable ways within a pluriversal world.The volume brings into conversation scholars from the Global South and the Global North, fostering a productive, polyvocal dialogue on alternative futures beyond growth. It will be indispensable to students and researchers of social sciences, international politics, sustainability and development, development economics, environmental economics, and business studies. It will also be of interest to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in creating a sustainable future.
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Antje Linkenbach, anthropologist and sociologist, is a long-term Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.Vidhu Verma, political scientist, is currently Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

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“With her characteristic brilliance and perspicacity, Mary E. John makes a signal contribution to feminist scholarship in this book. Her genealogy of child marriage draws upon historical, comparative, and intersecting analytical frameworks. This deep and nuanced contextualization compels us to consider afresh what we had long assumed we knew about a familiar subject. Her argument about "compulsory marriage," which she introduces to reframe the discussion of child marriage, offers an important conceptual advance that will likely become a valuable new resource in the feminist toolkit. This is one of the most original and exciting feminist interventions to come along in a while.” — Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan, USA“This elegantly incisive book by Mary E. John, one of India’s leading feminist scholars, challenges us to interrogate some of the myths of reason and progress that we complacently live by. Her object of study is public discourse and social policy on the issue of child marriage, a ‘social problem’ which, for close on two centuries, has been an object of attention by Indian social reformers, women’s movement activists, and latterly, in a global context, by international development agencies. In a tour de force, John decodes the intricacies of various data sets and the assumptions that drive them, to suggest that it is not child-marriage that is the problem for Indian women, but rather the ‘compulsory’ nature of marriage itself which must be the frame of reference for genuine change.” — Patricia Uberoi, Retired Professor, Institute of Economic Growth & Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi, India

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