Journal title RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL’AMMINISTRAZIONE
Author/s Angela Maria Zocchi
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/2
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 5-19 File size 497 KB
DOI 10.3280/SA2013-002001
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This article is focused upon the metaphor of growth, which underlies a specific idea of development. The author explains how, since a sociological classic such as Social Change and History by Robert Nisbet, the idea of development as growth has continued to be used notwithstanding the critiques addressed to this metaphor, the establishment of the paradigm of decrease, and the birth of a proper decrease movement. At the same time, the author maintains that this surviving idea of development as growth has been reconfigured through the use of adjectives that have actually modified the real sense of the metaphor, and that have as much as possible shortened the distance towards the perspective of a "different development". Will the zero growth trends maintained by the theorists of a "different development" lead to the disappearance of the growth metaphor on the wake of the idea of a "happy degrowth"?
Keywords: Metaphor, growth, development
Angela Maria Zocchi, Il concetto di sviluppo e la metafora della crescita in "RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL’AMMINISTRAZIONE" 2/2013, pp 5-19, DOI: 10.3280/SA2013-002001