Sustainable Economic Futures: Nature, Equity and Community
15 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 1MV083
Main group 1
- Buller, Adrienne, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022Compulsory
- Gibson-Graham, J. K.; Cameron, Jenny; Healy, Stephen., Take back the economy: an ethical guide for transforming our communities, Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press, [2013]Compulsory
- Digital Compendium Online SEF, CEMUS, 2020, www.cemus.uu.se/sefCompulsory (Online reader with 3–4 texts, videos, audio files or other material per week - in Studium.)
Elective books
The third module explores the big transformative ideas regarding the future of economic sustainability. There are five preselected course books for this module and each student is expected to select one book based on their preference. The books Edge of Chaos and The End of Man are bundled together as one selection; thus, the second option has two books that will be read together.
- Jackson, Tim, Post growth: life after capitalism, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2021
- Moyo, Dambisa, Edge of chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth -- and how to fix it, London, Little, Brown, 2018
- Zylinska, Joanna, The end of man: a feminist counterapocalypse, Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Raworth, Kate, Doughnut economics - seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist, Random House, 2017
- Pollard, Jane.; McEwan, Cheryl.; Hughes, Alex., Postcolonial Economies, London, Zed Books, 2011
- Visser, Wayne, Thriving: the breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society, and the economy, First edition., New York, New York, Fast Company Press, [2022]
* Compulsory