File:Thematic overview of the academic degrowth discourse based on 91 peer-refereed articles published between 2007 and 2015.jpg

English: "The academic degrowth discourse has emerged from the French cultural critique of the growth imaginary (Latouche, 2005) and from environmental and social activism (Demaria et al., 2013, Infante-Amate and González de Molina, 2013). It draws from the concrete experience of voluntary simplicity in co-housing communities (Lietaert, 2010), squatting (Cattaneo and Gavaldà, 2010), and neo-ruralism (Martínez-Alier, 2012). The historical ties of the degrowth discourse become apparent in two features. First, the majority of, mainly earlier, articles discusses history, context, concepts, and the motivation for degrowth in the form of structured essays that reflect the communication practice of the social sciences. Only 17 out of 91 articles separate introduction, methods, results, and discussion as it is typically done in the natural sciences. Second, one third of the reviewed articles contain normative claims that are inaccessible to rigid scientific testing, often adhering to a vision that wants to reclaim democracy and re-politicize economic relations. Grounding in the conceptual work published until 2012, research on degrowth has been recently branching out into more formal economics, material and energy flow accounting, and empirical case studies (Fig. 5; Table S2 in the Supplementary Material)."