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Organizer: Gavin Jack, Monash U.
Organizer: Ana Maria Peredo, U. of Victoria
Organizer: Arturo E Osorio, Rutgers U.
Organizer: Robert Perey, U. of Technology, Sydney
Organizer: Andre Reichel, Karlshochschule International U.
Participant: Bobby Banerjee, City U. London
Participant: Melissa Edwards, U. of Technology, Sydney
Participant: Kristy Faccer, Network for Business Sustainability
Participant: Helen Haugh, U. of Cambridge
Participant: David Jacobs, Morgan State U.
Participant: Stephen Jaros, Southern U.
Participant: Quintus Jett, Rutgers U.
Participant: Mike Lewis, Canadian Centre for Community Renewal
Participant: Murdith McLean, U. of Victoria
Participant: Hugh Willmott, Cass Business School, City U. London
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| Degrowth is an attempt to revitalise the awareness of the social, economic and ecological limitations humanity faces as a ‘world civilization’ and the consequences for all our livelihoods and wellbeing by shaping a new ‘story’ or description of what matters and how humanity and their co-beings might thrive in a future different from the present. For several decades, however, there has been a growing chorus of voices sounding an alarm about unlimited economic growth and the underlying cultural and mental structures. In recent years, emanating from Serge Latouche’s (2004) notion of décroissance, a more radical and emancipatory perspective has complemented established critiques for growth, e.g., from Dennis Meadows et al. (1972) and Herman Daly (1996), with a wider focus on societal, ecological, political, cultural and mental impacts of the economic growth paradigm. This alarm appears to have had little impact on management education. For the last 50 years, management education has been firmly embedded within this paradigm of relentless growth. Even where ‘sustainability’ has become a theme a belief in ‘sustainable growth’ is maintained. During the past four AoM meetings we have explored issues raised by the scholarly discourse on degrowth and in Vancouver we propose to address the missing pedagogy of degrowth: a pedagogy of disruption and renewal that is able to challenge management education and practice by addressing key concepts in the wider degrowth field that might be able to imbue the pedagogy of growth and expansion of today with a way of learning how to cope with a reductive form of modernity. Scholars from different fields of management – entrepreneurship, strategy, accounting and finance, human resources and OB – will facilitate discussion of re-imagining the curricula in those disciplines. |
| More background information on the discourse about degrowth can be found at http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/ as well as http://www.degrowth.org/ |
| Search Terms: Degrowth | Education | Practice |
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