Samuel Alexander
Dr Samuel Alexander is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching a course called ‘Consumerism and the Growth Economy: Critical Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ as part of the Master of Environment. He is also co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a research fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Alexander’s interdisciplinary research focuses on degrowth, permaculture, voluntary simplicity, ‘grassroots’ theories of transition, and the relationship between culture and political economy. His current research is exploring the aesthetics of degrowth.
His books include Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary (2019, co-authored with Brendan Gleeson); Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future (2018, co-authored with Josh Floyd); Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017); Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way (2017); Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreau’s Alternative Economics (2016); Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016); Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015); Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever (2015); and Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013); he is also editor of Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (2009) and co-editor of Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014). In 2016 he also released a documentary called A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, co-produced with Jordan Osmond of Happen Films.
Showing 1–16 of 20 results
-
Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future
AUD $27.95 Add to cart -
Prosperous Descent (Vol I)
AUD $39.95 Add to cart -
Prosperous Descent (Vol I) eBook
AUD $4.99 Select options -
Entropia
AUD $33.95AUD $26.95 Add to cart -
Art Against Empire eBook
AUD $9.99 Select options -
Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future eBook
AUD $13.99 Select options -
Compost Capitalism
AUD $71.95 Add to cart -
Deface the Currency
AUD $20.95 Add to cart -
Deface the Currency eBook
AUD $2.99 Select options -
Entropia eBook
AUD $4.99 Select options -
Just Enough is Plenty
AUD $20.95 Add to cart -
Just Enough is Plenty eBook
AUD $2.99 Select options -
Simple Living in History
AUD $39.95AUD $31.95 Add to cart -
Sufficiency Economy (Vol II)
AUD $39.95 Add to cart -
Sufficiency Economy (Vol II) eBook
AUD $4.99 Select options
Showing 1–16 of 20 results