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"De-development" is a cross-genre book category that examines the unmaking, reversal, or intentional scaling-back of modern development—political, economic, technological and cultural. It includes critical nonfiction (post-development theory, degrowth, decolonial critiques, collapse studies and policy/activation manuals for relocalization or repair), speculative and literary fiction that imagines societies regressing or consciously rejecting growth paradigms, and memoirs or reportage about community resilience, resource limits, and the social costs of "progress." The category foregrounds alternatives to growth-driven modernization—small-scale economies, ecological restoration, craft and commons-based practices—while probing the ethical, emotional and material consequences of decline, withdrawal or deliberate simplification. Overall, De-development books challenge the assumption that development is always desirable or linear, offering analytic frameworks, practical responses and evocative narratives about what it means to step back, adapt, or rebuild.

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