@conference {1909,
	title = {Sleep and stillness in a mobile economy},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {<p>Keywords: Sleep, stillness, ethical and moral agency, critical re-reading, growth-necessity Narrative step: Visions and strategies for transformation The contemporary economy is built on the value of mobility, achievement, control and efficiency. It leans on the active subject: the one being wide awake and alert. This ideal of the {\textquoteleft}economic man{\textquoteright} profits the growth-necessitated economic thought of our society. But what has been forgotten is that an economic man {\textquotedblleft}is possible only as a subject which sleeps, which has slept, and which will sleep again{\textquotedblright} (Harrison 2009, 989). It is a subject which, in the existence of mobility, is also still and dormant; a subject which sleeps one third of its life. Furthermore, a sleeping subject is one that carries along a certain kind of virtue, an ethical and moral agency. By focusing on this inevitable, but mostly forgotten, part of a subject it enables us to explore the ongoing economic debate from a novel perspective.</p>},
	author = {Tarja Salmela}
}
