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How can humanity navigate the environmental crisis beyond the pursuit of economic growth? Drawing on diverse philosophical and political traditions and from ecological economics to environmental social sciences, this book offers a bold alternative: relational degrowth, which recognises people, communities, and nature as fundamentally interconnected.
Through conceptual analysis and real-world examples, the book explores how to reshape economic and cultural systems and demonstrates why emphasis on relations is critical for the degrowth movement. It provides theoretical foundations and practical applications for scholars and activists enacting alternatives to growth-dependent societies.
Teppo Eskelinen is a political philosopher and social scientist currently working as a senior lecturer in social sciences at the University of Eastern Finland.
Vilma Hämäläinen is an independent scholar and a graduate of global development studies at the University of Helsinki.
Pasi Heikkurinen is a transdisciplinary scholar working currently as a professor of sustainable business at the LUT University.
Introduction - Teppo Eskelinen, Vilma Hämäläinen and Pasi Heikkurinen
Part I: Relational Degrowth as the Dissolution of Dualisms
1. Relational Degrowth as Philosophy and Politics - Teppo Eskelinen, Vilma Hämäläinen and Pasi Heikkurinen
2. Resource Relations of Degrowth - Janne Säynäjäkangas
3. Agential Relationality for Degrowth Theory - Suvielise Nurmi
4. Relational Value and Reality of Degrowth - Corinna Casi
Part II: Relational Degrowth as an Embodied and Situated Practice
5. Relational Degrowth Overcoming Anthropocentrism: Insights from the Japanese School of Postdevelopment - Yoshihiro Nakano
6. Agroecological Food Citizenship as a Practice of Relational Degrowth - Riikka Aro
7. Degrowth and Relational Transformation: A Shamanistic Perspective - Helena Karhu
8. Walking as Performance of Relationality - Sonja Laukkanen
Part III: Relational Degrowth as the Reframing of Human Purpose
9. Freedom and Necessity: Bridging Degrowth and Ecological Marxism through Reproductive Labour - Toni Ruuska
10. Towards a Relational Epistemology: An Ecological Approach to Human-Nature Relationship - Michiru Nagatsu
11. The Case of Duck Squad, Multispecies Relationality and Degrowth - Valtteri A. Aaltonen
12. Conceptual Change and Cultural Full Braking for Degrowth Society - Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano
13. Conclusion: Never One Without the Other - Teppo Eskelinen, Vilma Hämäläinen and Pasi Heikkurinen