Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean
研究地中海岛屿如何通过‘南方思想’（强调缓慢、节制与共处）和‘岛屿性’（小岛特有的物理与文化条件）催生真实存在的去增长实践，基于希腊伊卡利亚岛和加夫多斯岛的田野调查。
In thinking about alternatives to growth-based development, we draw attention to Mediterranean islands and the way they animate imaginaries and practices of a simple life. We follow Franco Cassano’s thesis of ‘Southern thought’ – a critique of Western developmentalism, prioritizing instead values of slowness, moderation and conviviality. These values are central to what Serge Latouche and others call ‘degrowth’. Drawing on fieldwork and ethnography from Ikaria and Gavdos, two remote islands in the Greek archipelago, we show how Southern thought, and forms of real-existing degrowth develop in relation to ‘islandness’ – a physical and cultural condition specific to small islands. Geography, historical contingency, and processes of myth-making combine to re-valorise what otherwise would be seen as ‘undeveloped’ places, thereby generating space for real-existing degrowth.