Portrait du décroissant en militant-chercheur

Abstract

The degrowth activist-researcher is not in the middle of two poles, the activist and the researcher, but is the hybrid medium from which the figures of the activist and the researcher can emerge. This original hybridity and primary interdependence are based on the entanglement between fact and value. A fact no more belongs to a pragmatic-positive world than a value resides in the clouds of the theoretical-normative. Such a primary relationship between fact and value could be the first principle of a " political epistemology " – as there is a " political economy " – of which the activist-researcher would be the principal figure.