Reviews and Awards
"[This work] constitutes an urgent, enlightening, and empowering reflection about a crucial subject of our time. Its main focus and virtue is to provide with sound intellectual tools to think about the fundamental danger that the growth paradigm (and particularly its capitalist version) means for humanity and planet Earth. It also opens the discussion about the possibility of a "post-growth" world. [...] The book takes a special interest in studying the academic and disciplinary implications of this debate: what does it mean for humanities, cultural studies, urban studies, and, particularly for Iberian studies to take seriously the ecological crisis and the threat that the growth paradigm means? The claim is not for just a change of subjects of study in these disciplines, but moreover for a change in the way we think." Luis Moreno-Caballud, University of Pennsylvania
"Prádanos's book will become a necessary reference for all those who will subsequently write about post-growth, environmental studies in the Spanish/Iberian context and related subjects." Katarzyna Olga Beilin, University of Wisconsin
"Despite the Earth's dire situation, the book's tone is hopeful in its proposal to foster and study new epistemologies that envision an ecojust postgrowth period." Shanna Lino, STTCL: Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature
"Postgrowth Imaginaries is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Spain as well as those who want to think through broader questions related to how we can imagine a more socially and ecologically just future." Micah McKay, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
"With cogent theoretical explanations, lucid prose, autonomous chapters and an abundance of cultural texts, Postgrowth Imaginaries will translate well to the classroom and will be easily accessible for anyone interested in learning about the global generators of climate change, eco-cultural responses from Spain and possible alternatives." Megan Saltzman, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
"The book is sure to engage Iberian and other cultural scholars. [...] throughout the book Prádanos analyses an impressively wide array of cultural productions - from the habitual novels, films, and documentaries to graphic novels and cartoons, songs, and an 'audiovisual experiment', a website, a street mural in Madrid, and even an art installation made entirely of garbage - all of which call attention to the excesses and failures of the neoliberal growth fantasy." Mònica Tomàs, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"Postgrowth Imaginaries is a book particularly useful for Iberian scholars interested in incorporating environmental humanities in their research. It is also a book which topics have not been sufficiently explored in Spain and, therefore, it contributes to encourage new research avenues and to establish a theoretical base combining national and international perspectives." Rivero Vadillo, Ecozone
