Deceleration

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With deceleration behavior is described colloquially, active professional and private acceleration of life counteract, d. H. to slow down again or even return to slowness.

Goals and meaning

The pursuit of slowing down based on the view that the social and especially economic development in developed industrial societies a momentum won, the rush into wear and senseless haste in all areas of life, while ignoring every natural and especially human scale. The striving of the professional world for complexity , effectiveness , haste, hectic, faster, higher, further and more is countered by deceleration. It is not about slowness as an end in itself , but about appropriate speeds and changes in a comprehensive sense: in dealing with oneself, with fellow human beings and with the surrounding nature. The fast-paced world offers little stability and time to take a deep breath. Time becomes a precious commodity. Increasing demands in the job and numerous tasks in everyday life, while at the same time constantly new possibilities for spending free time: Many people feel that the time for the important things in life is missing out. As a result, they want to slow down and want more time for themselves, their family and friends.

Deceleration, the rediscovery of slowness, is what the association for the delay of time is dedicated to.

Slowing down is becoming increasingly important in the advice literature on coping with stress and in interdisciplinary research on happiness . In the field of health tourism , too , the issue of a slowed-down lifestyle is increasingly being taken up with regard to health- promoting aspects.

Definitions

Slowing down shows the characteristics of laziness and leisure , without being negatively charged like these. While deceleration does not necessarily mean reducing the speed you are accustomed to as a waiver of further acceleration, the older word “slowing down” tends to question the way forward .

The term deceleration is also used in the context of ecologically oriented politics . In transport policy , for example, the general introduction of speed limits is required as well as the sensible expansion of federal highways instead of new highways . The deceleration can also be found in the concepts of growth criticism , as demanded by the growth-critical movement .

Deceleration measures

Deceleration measures can e.g. B. be:

  • abstinence ( asceticism ),
  • leading a simple life ,
  • a reduction in resource consumption,
  • more generally, in the biological sense, everything that helps reduce energy and substance turnover.

From a social and cultural perspective, measures are increasingly developing with the aim of decelerating, which can be summarized under the term slow movement .

Members of the slow movement include: B .:

  • Slow food , deceleration through slow and enjoyable food
  • Cittàslow , improving the quality of life in cities
  • Slowretail , for stores and trade with more value
  • Slow travel , conscious travel, renouncing package tours and fast means of transport
  • Decelerated journalism , the renunciation of showmanship and breaking news in journalism

Concept history

The term deceleration (deceleration) was first introduced in 1979 by Jürgen vom Scheidt in his book "Singles - Alone as Chance", and then dealt with in three other of his books.

The word continued to appear in publications by the Evangelical Academy Tutzing and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in the early 1990s . The idea is older, however, and can be traced back at least to the 19th century, when there was a tendency in England to prohibit railroads from traveling at speeds of more than ten kilometers per hour.

In literary terms, Adalbert Stifter's work can be used ex post as an example of a decelerated world. In his main work “ Der Nachsommer ” a determining motive is to slow down every movement and to stop the flow of time.

Documentation

See also

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: Deceleration  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foundation for Future Issues - an initiative by British American Tobacco : Personal goals for 2016 - Between slowing down and thrift. ( Memento from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Forschungs Aktuell. 266, 36th year, December 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ Manfred Nelting: Protection against burn-out: throw off ballast - live more powerfully. Mosaic, Munich 2012.
  3. ↑ Konstanze Kuchenmeister: My recipe for happiness: this is how you master every life crisis on your own. Gräfe & Unzer, Munich 2012.
  4. ↑ Relaxation for health promotion ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 317 kB). Health Promotion Switzerland. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ Wellness & Health. What is deceleration? ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Rhineland-Palatinate Tourism. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ Le Masurier, Megan (2015). What is Slow Journalism ?. Journalism Practice. 9 (2): 138-152. doi: 10.1080 / 17512786.2014.916471
  7. ↑ Jürgen vom Scheidt: Singles: Being alone as a chance in life. Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-01041-8 , p. 98.
  8. ↑ Reading sample on: bic-media.com