Methodological Luddism: A concept for tying degrowth to the assessment and regulation of technologies

Garcia, José Luís; Jerónimo, Helena Mateus; Carvalho, Tiago Mesquita

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.184

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“…It also requires a decrease in throughput to avoid the depletion of more-than-human beings. In this context, technology should be appropriated to construct the social and material conditions necessary to instilling degrowth values of autonomy, sociality, and care for the environment (Garcia et al, 2018;Likavcan and Scholz-Wackerle, 2018). The goal of technological innovations should be to (1) initiate a shift in value systems that enable equitable living for all and participatory production (Latouche, 2009), and (2) generate tools and systems that enable prosumption practices that are convivial and pleasurable and allow for mutualist frameworks of growth (Meadows et al, 1972).…”

Section: Degrowth and Technology An Inextricable Paradoxmentioning

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Food prosumption technologies: A symbiotic lens for a degrowth transition

Vicdan,

Ulusoy,

Tillotson

et al. 2023

Marketing Theory

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Prosumption is gaining momentum among the critical accounts of sustainable consumption that have thus far enriched the marketing discourse. Attention to prosumption is increasing whilst the degrowth movement is emerging to tackle the contradictions inherent in growth-driven, technology-fueled, and capitalist modes of sustainable production and consumption. In response to dominant critical voices that portray technology as counter to degrowth living, we propose an alternative symbiotic lens with which to reconsider the relations between technology, prosumption, and degrowth living, and assess how a degrowth transition in the context of food can be carried out at the intersection of human–nature–technology. We contribute to the critical debates on prosumption in marketing by analyzing the potentials and limits of technology-enabled food prosumption for a degrowth transition through the degrowth principles of conviviality and appropriateness. Finally, we consider the sociopolitical challenges involved in mobilizing such technologies to achieve symbiosis and propose a future research agenda.

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Section: Degrowth and Technology An Inextricable Paradoxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food prosumption technologies: A symbiotic lens for a degrowth transition

Vicdan,

Ulusoy,

Tillotson

et al. 2023

Marketing Theory

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“…As Lloveras et al show, conviviality is a key element for anti-capitalistic degrowth activists, since it is one essential 'purpose of the degrowth movement to initiate a "convivial reconstruction" of capitalist space by safeguarding the autonomy of communities and individuals to choose their styles of life' (Lloveras et al, 2018: 198). Furthermore, degrowth and conviviality overlap in the discussion of technology, for degrowth has been established as an antithesis to a-as Weinberg (1967) called it-'technological fix' or technological 'solutionism'; that is, the techno-scientific imaginary that a social problem could be solved by mere technological means (Garcia et al, 2018(Garcia et al, : 1648Kerschner et al, 2018aKerschner et al, : 1620. Conviviality then works as a counter concept to the modernist, instrumental attitude towards technology.…”

Section: Degrowth Conviviality and Human-animal Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating ourselves out of industrial excess? Degrowth, multi-species conviviality and the micro-politics of cultured meat

Gertenbach

Lamla

Laser

2021

Anthropological Theory

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To address the relationship between the crises of capitalist growth and democratic politics, this paper discusses the notions of degrowth and conviviality. Both concepts are often interpreted as making similar proposals in response to questions of environmental transformation. However, they bear on different strands of critique. While degrowth criticizes the momentum of capitalist accumulation, conviviality originates in the search for alternatives to the instrumental use of technologies in industrial societies. Although these two rationalities predominantly go hand in hand in the development of modern societies, they are sometimes in conflict and different strategies are required to deal with their consequences. Therefore, the differences between degrowth and conviviality should not be obscured. Instead of using the concepts in an ethical or moral fashion as normative claims directed at some diffuse agency of states, companies and the people, the paper argues for a thorough examination of issues and propositions to overcome the environmental crisis from the perspective of materialist science and technology studies. Since one key factor here is the level of global production and consumption of meat, this paper turns toward a controversial attempt to break new ground in meat production: the vision of artificially producing meat in the laboratory. Lab-grown, cultured meat provides a powerful case study for exploring political and democratic challenges of post-growth societies, all the more so as questions of animal welfare and interspecies conviviality are addressed as well. By taking a closer look at the role of animals in proposed solutions for degrowth and conviviality in meat production and consumption, the complementarity of such claims can be questioned, and a light can be shed on the inherent political implications of such technological innovations.

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“…The solutions can be evaluated based on their outcomes and the resources they require, rather than how much shiny tech and new economic value they produce. A great exercise in practical Luddism is thinking about the solutions we currently employ around these issues and creatively whittling down the technology used in them or imagining what would happen if we destroyed that technology-a practice known as methodological Luddism (Lu s Garcia et al 2018, Winner 1978.…”

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Reimagining Science and Technology Education in the COVID-19 Portal

Alsop

Bencze

2020

JASTE

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Volume 11, Issue 2 (2020) [jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/jaste]ii more refugees and displaced people in the world than ever before, and these figures will likely rise as a result of the pandemic.The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police is another world shaking event. This sickening and needless death and many others have led to uprisings in the US by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and those held in solidarity around the world. Protestors, in defiance of lock-down, have brought deeply ingrained injustices home. BLM have reignited and reoriented civil rights movements, bringing attention to racialized injustices, violence and police brutalities. The BLM movement has ruptured civic spheres and injustices that were somehow accepted as a tragic part of everyday life, are now repugnant and indefensible. As JASTE editors and authors, we stand in solidarity with BLM and all those who have taken to the streets in protest. We reflect on ways that science and education practices, including our practices, are deeply implicated in perpetuating anti-Black racism and inequalities. We acknowledge that racism is a public health and environmental issue that is further worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.We are all vulnerable to COVID-19 although, in practice, of course, the virus affects different groups in very different ways. The pandemic builds on ingrained inequalities and injustices of racism, colonialism, capitalism, class-struggle, poverty, food and health insecurities and environmental degradations. It is a crisis that builds on crisis. The following articles in this journal issue make this abundantly clear.The planetary environmental crisis has been somewhat occluded by COVID-19. Buried in the media and news items are conflicting reports of nature flourishing with fauna and flora returning to cities, improving air quality, and greenhouse gas emissions still rising but doing so at reduced rates. Recent news items have marked the last 10 years as the hottest on record, and Siberia is currently grappling with debilitating temperatures and forest fires previously unknown. Indeed, some have asked whether the pandemic should be conceived as dry run -a warm-up act for something much worse. Others have seen it as a moment in which a Green New Deal might be realised.Around the world, there has been mass closure of institutions of education to restrict the spread of the virus, millions of learners are now out-of-school. UNESCO has been monitoring school closures, highlighting how girls and rural, working class communities have been disproportionately affected. During the pandemic, makeshift educational arrangements have been put in place, mostly in the form of online and distance learning. Students and families lacking computers and stable WIFI connections are further marginalised. In the countries first affected, schools are now reopening. Education administrators, teachers and students are juggling (im)practicalities of social distancing, daily temperature testing, and how best to organise and timetable smaller classes...

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Methodological Luddism: A concept for tying degrowth to the assessment and regulation of technologies

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Food prosumption technologies: A symbiotic lens for a degrowth transition

Food prosumption technologies: A symbiotic lens for a degrowth transition

Eating ourselves out of industrial excess? Degrowth, multi-species conviviality and the micro-politics of cultured meat

Reimagining Science and Technology Education in the COVID-19 Portal

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