The Degrowth Imaginary: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 10 Sayı: 2, 409 - 429

Yusuf Murteza

Öz

Alternative socio-political imaginaries stress the need to address ecological breakdown. Having received growing attention from scholars, research on degrowth as a burgeoning topic is scattered across various scientific disciplines such as environmental science, sociology, economics, and geography. However, the growing number of publications focusing on bibliometric analysis enable researchers to take a snapshot of the evolutionary account of a specific field. This article aims to present the state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on the degrowth imaginary by employing the tools of bibliometric analysis. It illustrates the evolving dynamics within degrowth research from 2008 to 2024. On the basis of 929 scientific publications retrieved from the Web of Science database, descriptive analysis determined the most active authors, institutions/organizations, journals, and countries in the literature. Bibliometric analysis, using VOSviewer, provided co-authorship analysis at the authors and country levels, co-occurrence analysis of keywords, and co-citation analysis of documents and authors in the field.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Degrowth, Web of Science, Bibliometric analysis, VOSviewer, Science mapping

Küçülme Tahayyülü: Literatürün Bibliyometrik Analizi

Öz

Alternatif sosyo-politik tahayyüller, ekolojik parçalanmaya karşı çözüm ihtiyacını vurgulamaktadır. Giderek daha fazla ilgi gören bir konu olan küçülme üzerine yapılan araştırmalar, çevre bilimi, sosyoloji, ekonomi ve coğrafya gibi bilimsel disiplinlere dağılmış durumdadır. Diğer taraftan bibliyometrik analize odaklanan yayınların sayısının giderek artmasının nedenlerinden birisi de bu analizin araştırmacılara bir araştırma alanının geçirdiği gelişimsel sürecin anlık görüntüsünü sağlamasıdır. Bu çalışma, bibliyometrik analiz araçlarını kullanarak küçülme tahayyülüne ilişkin bilimsel literatürün son durumunu ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu makale, 2008-2014 yılları arasında, küçülme literatürü üzerine olan çalışmaları analiz etmektedir. Çalışmada, Web of Science veri tabanından elde edilen 929 bilimsel yayın, betimsel analiz başlığın altında literatürdeki en etkili yazarlar, kurumlar, dergiler ve ülkeler belirlenmiştir. Ardından VOSviewer kullanılarak yapılan bibliyometrik analizle birlikte, ortak yazarlık analizi (co-authorship), birlikte bulunma (co-occurence), ve ortak alıntılanma (co-citation) analizleri gerçekleştirilmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Küçülme, Web of Science, Bibliyometrik Analiz, VOSviewer, bilimsel haritalama

Kaynakça

• Abazeri, M. (2022). Decolonial feminisms and degrowth. Futures, 136, 102902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102902
• Akbulut, B., Demaria, F., Gerber, J., & Martínez-Alier, J. (2019). Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements. Ecological Economics, 165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106418
• Béal, V., Fol, S., Miot, Y., & Rousseau, M. (2019). Varieties of right-sizing strategies: Comparing degrowth coalitions in French shrinking cities. Urban Geography, 40(2), 192–214. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1332927
• Birkle, C., Pendlebury, D. A., Schnell, J., & Adams, J. (2020). Web of Science as a data source for research on scientific and scholarly activity. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(1), 363–376. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00018
• Borch, A. (2016). Stop Shop 2012 and the role of simplicity movements in sustainable change. Journal of Research for Consumers, 29, 1–24.
• Buell, F. (2004). From apocalypse to way of life: Environmental crisis in the American century. Routledge. Buhnik, S. (2017). The dynamics of urban degrowth in Japanese metropolitan areas: What are the outcomes of urban recentralisation strategies? Town Planning Review, 88(1), 79–92. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2017.7
• Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P. R., Barnosky, A. D., García, A., Pringle, R. M., & Palmer, T. M. (2015). Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. Science Advances, 1(5), e1400253. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400253
• Chadegani, A. A., Salehi, H., Yunus, M. M., Farhadi, H., Fooladi, M., Farhadi, M., & Ebrahim, N. A. (2013). A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. Asian Social Science, 9(5), p18. https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n5p18
• Chambers, C. (2021). Degrowth: An environmental ideology with good intentions, bad politics. Environment. 10 (1), 10-781.
• Clark, T. (2024). Degrowth or secular stagnation? The political economy of monopoly finance capital and the stagnation-accumulation treadmill. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-024-00931-3
• Cobo, M. J., López-Herrera, A. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2011). Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1382–1402. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21525
• Cosme, I., Santos, R., & O’Neill, D. W. (2017). Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals. Journal of Clearer Production, 149(1), 321-334.
• Crist, E. (2019). Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization. University of Chicago Press.
• Crist, E., Ripple, W. J., Ehrlich, P. R., Rees, W. E., & Wolf, C. (2022). Scientists’ warning on population. Science of The Total Environment, 845, 157166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157166
• Demaria, F., Schneider, F., Sekulova, F., & Martinez-Alier, J. (2013). What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement. Environmental Values, 22(2), 191–215. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327113X13581561725194
• Donthu, N., Kumar, S., Mukherjee, D., Pandey, N., & Lim, W. M. (2021). How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines. Journal of Business Research, 133, 285–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.070
• Engler, J.-O., Kretschmer, M.-F., Rathgens, J., Ament, J. A., Huth, T., & Von Wehrden, H. (2024). 15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review. Ecological Economics, 218, 108101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108101
• Farley, J., & Voinov, A. (2016). Economics, socio-ecological resilience and ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management, 183, 389–398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.065
• Fioramonti, L. (2024). Post-growth theories in a global world: A comparative analysis. Review of International Studies, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000214
• Fitzpatrick, N., Parrique, T., & Cosme, I. (2022). Exploring degrowth policy proposals: A systematic mapping with thematic synthesis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 365, 132764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132764
• Gerber, J.-F., & Raina, R. S. (2018). Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan. Ecological Economics, 150, 353–358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.02.020
• Grunwald, A. (2018). Diverging pathways to overcoming the environmental crisis: A critique of eco-modernism from a technology assessment perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 197, 1854–1862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.212
• Hadjimichael, M. (2018). A call for a blue degrowth: Unravelling the European Union’s fisheries and maritime policies. Marine Policy. 94(1), 158-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.05.007
• Hickel, J. (2021). What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification. Globalizations, 18(7), 1105–1111. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222
• Hickel, J., & Kallis, G. (2020). Is Green Growth Possible? New Political Economy, 25(4), 469–486. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964
• Hollender, R. (2018). Anti, Alternative, and Post: A Review of Post-Growth A Review of Post-Growth Approaches to Radical Transformation in the Global South. American Review of Political Economy, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.38024/arpe.147
• Jackson, T., Kallis, G., & Mastini, R. (2019). Beyond the choke hold of growth: Post-growth or radical degrowth. Jesse, J., & Swezey, D. (2010). The Breakthrough Institute. Time to Bury Cap and Trade and Plan Anew.
• Kallis, G. (2011). In defence of degrowth. Ecological Economics, 70(5), 873–880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.12.007
• Kallis, G., Kostakis, V., Lange, S., Muraca, B., Paulson, S., & Schmelzer, M. (2018). Research On Degrowth. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 43(1), 291–316. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941
• Kerschner, C., & Ehlers, M.-H. (2016). A framework of attitudes towards technology in theory and practice. Ecological Economics, 126, 139–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.02.010
• Kratochvíl, J. (2017). Comparison of the Accuracy of Bibliographical References Generated for Medical Citation Styles by EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks and Zotero. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 43(1), 57–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2016.09.001
• Lehtinen, A. (2018). Degrowth in city planning. Fennia-International Journal of Geography, 196(1), 43–57. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.65443
• Lidskog, R., Elander, I., & Standring, A. (2020). COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses. Sustainability, 12(16). https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166337
• Luke, T. W. (1999). Eco‐Managerialism: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge Formation. In F. Fischer & M. Hajer (Eds.), Living with Nature (1st ed., pp. 103–120). Oxford University Press.
• Malhi, Y., Franklin, J., Seddon, N., Solan, M., Turner, M. G., Field, C. B., & Knowlton, N. (2020). Climate change and ecosystems: Threats, opportunities and solutions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1794), 20190104. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0104
• McGuirk, E. (2017). Timebanking in New Zealand as a prefigurative strategy within a wider degrowth movement. Journal of Political Ecology, 24, 595–609. https://doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20897
• Meyers, M. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in a degrowth context. A conviviality perspective on machine learning. Gaia-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 33(1), 186–192. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.1.13
• Moore, G. (2022). Virtuous organizations: Desire, consumption and human flourishing in an era of climate change. Frontiers in Sociology, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.960054
• Muraca, B. (2013). Decroissance: A Project for a Radical Transformation of Society. Environmental Values, 22(2), 147–169. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327113X13581561725112
• Oels, A. (2005). Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government? Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 7(3), 185–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15239080500339661
• Öztürk, O. (2021). Bibliometric review of resource dependence theory literature: An overview. Management Review Quarterly, 71(3), 525–552. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-020-00192-8
• Öztürk, O., & Di̇l, E. (2022). Bibliometric Analysis of Organizational Ecology Theory (OET): to Review Past for Directing the Future of the Field. Ege Akademik Bakış. https://doi.org/10.21121/eab.980638
• Öztürk, O., Kocaman, R., & Kanbach, D. K. (2024). How to design bibliometric research: An overview and a framework proposal. Review of Managerial Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-024-00738-0
• Parrique, T. (2019). The Political Economy of Degrowth. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33452.82568
• Paulson, S. (2024). World-making technology entangled with coloniality, race and gender: Ecomodernist and degrowth perspectives. Environmental Values, 33(1), 71–89. https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231209741
• Prieto, L. & Domínguez-Serrano, M. (2017). An Ecofeminist Analysis of Degrowth: The Spanish Case. Feministische Studien, 35(2), 223-242. https://doi.org/10.1515/fs-2017-0027
• Ralph, N., & Investigator, A. (2021). A conceptual merging of circular economy, degrowth and conviviality design approaches applied to renewable energy technology. Journal of Cleaner Production, 319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128549
• Ramos‐Rodríguez, A., & Ruíz‐Navarro, J. (2004). Changes in the intellectual structure of strategic management research: A bibliometric study of the Strategic Management Journal, 1980–2000. Strategic Management Journal, 25(10), 981–1004. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.397
• Rees, W. E. (2020). Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase. Ecological Economics, 169, 106519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106519
• Renkert, S. (2019). Community-owned tourism and degrowth: A case study in the Kichwa Anangu community. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(12), 1893–1908. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2019.1660669
• Robra, B., Heikkurinen, P., & Nesterova, I. (2020). Commons-based peer production for degrowth? -The case for eco-sufficiency in economic organisations. Sustainable Futures, 2, 100035.
• Sard, M., & Valle, E. (2024). Tourism degrowth: Quantification of its economic impact. Current Issues in Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2024.2316201
• Savini, F. (2023). Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing. Urban Studies, 60(7), 1231–1248. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221121517
• Schmidt, F. (2008). Meta-Analysis: A Constantly Evolving Research Integration Tool. Organizational Research Methods, 11(1), 96–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428107303161
• Schneider, F., Kallis, G., & Martinez-Alier, J. (2010). Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(6), 511–518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.01.014
• Small, H. (1973). Co‐citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630240406
• Snyder, H. (2019). Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines. Journal of Business Research, 104, 333–339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.039
• Strunz, S., & Bartkowski, B. (2017). Degrowth, modernity, and the open society. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep52853
• Sweileh, W. M. (2020). Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on climate change and human health with an emphasis on infectious diseases. Globalization and Health, 16(1), 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00576-1
• Swilling, M., Hajer, M., Baynes, T., Bergesen, J., Labbé, F., Musango, J., K., Ramaswami, A., Robinson, B., Salat, S., Suh, S., Currie, P., Fang, A., Kruit, K., Reiner, M., Smit, S., & Tabory, S. (2018). The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization (A Report by the International Resource Panel). United Nations Environment Programme.
• Van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0146-3
• Van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2014). Visualizing Bibliometric Networks. In Y. Ding, R. Rousseau, & D. Wolfram (Eds.), Measuring Scholarly Impact (pp. 285–320). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10377-8_13
• Vandeventer, J., Lloveras, J., & Warnaby, G. (2024). The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing. Housing Theory & Society, 41(1), 69–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2241475
• Vandeventer, J. S., Cattaneo, C., & Zografos, C. (2019). A Degrowth Transition: Pathways for the Degrowth Niche to Replace the Capitalist-Growth Regime. Ecological Economics, 156, 272–286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.002
• Wackernagel, M., Schulz, N. B., Deumling, D., Linares, A. C., Jenkins, M., Kapos, V., Monfreda, C., Loh, J., Myers, N., Norgaard, R., & Randers, J. (2002). Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(14), 9266–9271. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.142033699
• Walk, P. (2024). From parity to degrowth: Unpacking narratives of a gender-just transition. Energy Research & Social Science, 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103513
• Webster, J., & Watson, R. T. (2002). Analyzing the Past to Prepare for the Future: Writing a Literature Review. MIS Quarterly, Vol. 26(No. 2), xiii–xxiii.
• Weiss, M., & Cattaneo, C. (2017). Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm. Ecological Economics, 137, 220–230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.01.014
• Wells, P. (2018). Degrowth and techno-business model innovation: The case of Riversimple. Journal of Cleaner Production, 197, 1704–1710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.186
• Wiefek, J., & Heinitz, K. (2018). Common Good-Oriented Companies: Exploring Corporate Values, Characteristics and Practices That Could Support a Development Towards Degrowth. Management Revue, 29(3), 311–331. https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2018-3-311
• Xue, J. (2015). Sustainable housing development: Decoupling or degrowth? A comparative study of Copenhagen and Hangzhou. Environment and Planning C-Government and Policy, 33(3), 620–639. https://doi.org/10.1068/c12305
• Zupic, I., & Čater, T. (2015). Bibliometric Methods in Management and Organization. Organizational Research Methods, 18(3), 429–472. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428114562629