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Fwd: Responsibility Beyond Growth virtual book launch seminar, 30 July - all welcome

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<br>*The Fourth Quadrant Research Network and Manchester Metropolitan
<br>University are pleased to invite you to an online book launch to celebrate
<br>the publication of “Responsibility Beyond Growth: A Case for Responsible
<br>Stagnation”, by Stevienna de Saille, Fabien Medvecky, Michiel van
<br>Oudheusden, Kevin Albertson, Effie Amanatidou, Timothy Birabi and Mario
<br>Pansera.*
<br>
<br>When: 30th July 2020 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. British Summer Time
<br>Where: via Zoom. Please go to https://bit.ly/2O6cNQN to register. The link
<br>for the talk will be provided to registered guests via email.
<br>
<br>With Guest speaker: Professor Richard Owen: University of Bristol
<br>
<br>Contributing speakers: Stevienna de Saille: University of Sheffield; Fabien
<br>Medvecky: University of Otago; Kevin Albertson: Manchester Metropolitan
<br>University; Effie Amanatidou: University of Manchester; Timothy Birabi:
<br>University of London; Mario Pansera: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
<br>
<br>* Responsibility Beyond Growth: A Case for Responsible Stagnation*
<br>
<br>Innovation is generally considered to be the antidote to
<br>economic stagnation. But while the coupling of ‘responsible' and
<br>'innovation’ has been much discussed, that of 'responsible *stagnation*'
<br>has
<br>gone largely unexplored. In this book, we take this concept seriously as
<br>a means to question the political economy of science, technology
<br>and innovation, both as policy and as process, and the problems which arise
<br>from unquestioned emphasis on innovation as the means to increase GDP. The
<br>book argues that examining what responsible stagnation might contribute
<br>opens new space in the growing global discussion about RI, incorporating
<br>innovation in non-market oriented processes, goods and services which have
<br>strong societal benefit but do not necessarily contribute to GDP. It
<br>examines the conundrum of diminishing productivity returns and
<br>increased environmental and social hazards associated with attempts
<br>to increase GDP, and how taking a growth-agnostic approach contributes to
<br>recalibrating innovation around responsibility as its focal point. Drawing
<br>on insights from ecological and steady state economics, Science and
<br>Technology Studies, and social innovation across the world, this
<br>interdisciplinary group of scholars questions how the growth paradigm
<br>shapes and limits the innovation space, and how decoupling innovation from
<br>growth points toward myriad possibilities for facilitating human well-being
<br>in more environmentally and socially responsible ways.
<br>
<br>Available with pre-order discount from:
<br>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/responsibility-beyond-growth
<br>
<br>The Fourth Quadrant Research Network (4QRN) is an international
<br>collaboration between economists, political scientists and science and
<br>technology scholars interested in growth-agnostic approaches to innovation.
<br>For more information and to join, see our new site at
<br>http://fourthquadrant.org
<br>
<br>--
<br>Stevienna de Saille, PhD
<br>Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman)
<br>Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences
<br>University of Sheffield
<br>c/o ICOSS, 219 Portobello
<br>Sheffield S1 4DP
<br>http://ihuman.group.shef.ac.uk
<br>Co-Founder, Fourth Quadrant Research Network on Responsible Stagnation
<br>(4QRN)
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