Accidental degrowth practices: Illustrations from Czechia

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dc.contributor.authorFerenčuhová, Slavomíracs
dc.contributor.authorFraňková, Evacs
dc.contributor.authorHoření Samec, Tomášcs
dc.contributor.authorMalý Blažek, Jancs
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-16T11:56:31Z
dc.date.available2025-07-16T11:56:31Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-17cs
dc.description.abstractThis chapter in the Routledge Handbook on Degrowth challenges prevailing conceptualisations of degrowth, which portray it mainly as a result of deliberate political strategies. It argues that this perspective often overlooks practices that align with the degrowth movement in various ways, but which are undertaken outside of it, by actors who are unaware, who lack specific degrowth goals, and often result from trajectories which are not straightforward. Using an empirical example from Central and Eastern Europe, from an applied research project in the Czech Republic focusing on the introduction of a collaborative housing concept, a practice aligned with degrowth, the chapter engages in a conversation with authors who focus on similar practices, calling them everyday degrowth, quiet degrowth or real-existing degrowth, and proposes a new concept of accidental degrowth. By using the word ‘accidental’, the focus is on practices characterised by not only a lack of intentionality, but also by haphazardness, uncertain goals and non-linear, fuzzy results, as well as by the crucial role of affects and emotions when engaging with unaware actors outside the movement. The concept reflects the inevitable complexity and accidentality of the processes by which new realities potentially aligned with degrowth principles emerge, and sometimes disappear.en
dc.formattextcs
dc.format.extent111-125cs
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfcs
dc.identifier.citationRoutledge Handbook of Degrowth. 2025, p. 111-125.en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781032650159-11cs
dc.identifier.isbn9781032645247cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5255-0982cs
dc.identifier.other197107cs
dc.identifier.researcheridX-5477-2019cs
dc.identifier.scopus57191824186cs
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11012/255159
dc.language.isoencs
dc.publisherRoutledge Environment and Sustainability Handbookscs
dc.relation.ispartofRoutledge Handbook of Degrowthcs
dc.relation.urihttps://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Degrowth/Nelson/p/book/9781032645247cs
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalcs
dc.rights.accessopenAccesscs
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/cs
dc.subjectaccidental degrowthen
dc.subjectcollaborative housingen
dc.subjectemotionsen
dc.subjectCzech Republicen
dc.titleAccidental degrowth practices: Illustrations from Czechiaen
dc.type.driverbookParten
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
sync.item.dbidVAV-197107en
sync.item.dbtypeVAVen
sync.item.insts2025.07.16 13:56:31en
sync.item.modts2025.07.16 13:32:57en
thesis.grantorVysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury. Ústav urbanismucs
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