De-growth, or Questions of Subjectivity in Reconstructing Local Autonomy: The Case of Minamata's Environmental Politics

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This article critically examines the research programme of the de-growth project recently instigated by French post-development theorist Serge Latouche. The paper argues that, whereas de-growth project contributes to conceptualising a vision of ecologically resilient local society as an alternative to neoliberal globalisation, it does not fully elaborate on specific social and political problems associated with local histories. To discuss this point, the paper draws upon the case of Minamata city’s initiatives of eco-model city that emerged as an effort to overcome the social divisions and discriminations introduced by the tragic incident of public pollutions. In analysing the emergence of new collective subjectivity in the local struggle against the construction plan of industrial wastes disposal facility, the paper remarks the importance of complementing de-growth project with political analysis of the structuration of local identity and normative investigation of social justice and responsibility.

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