Solarpunk: utopian realism as a degrowth aesthetic or why degrowthers should be solarpunks

Lee Amaduzzi, Lee Amaduzzi and Lee Amaduzzi

Chapter Chapter 12 in Dialogues for Degrowth, 2025, pp 149-159 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, I argue that solarpunk as an aesthetic movement can provide a revolutionary narrative strategy for degrowth. At the same time, I identify in the degrowth movement the concrete political demand behind solarpunk as an artistic current. By advancing the argument that art, when it embraces its political function and resists capitalist cooptation, has a privileged role in political communication and in affecting consciousness, I delineate a proposal for an alliance between solarpunk art and degrowth.

Keywords: Solarpunk; Degrowth; Utopian realism; Capitalist realism; Hypernormalization; Aesthetics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035320769
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