Commoning Care: Feminist Degrowth Visions for a Socio-Ecological Transformation

Dengler, Corinna; Lang, Miriam

doi:10.1080/13545701.2021.1942511

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“…Another paradigm that characterizes the patriarchy sphere is the public–private divide, which has consequently resulted in the shifting of ‘public’/state responsibility to the ‘private’/personal (or non-state) sphere of single individuals (predominantly regarded as consumers) via various market mechanisms (Nicholson 1986 ; Boyd 1997 ; Jennings 1993 ; Dengler and Lang 2021 ). In the Estonian agri-bioeconomy paper, citizens are reduced to mere consumers (or alternatively, producing entrepreneurs) who only require adequate environmental information to make conscious choices at the market.…”

Section: The Bielefeld Subsistence Approach and Framework To Assess T...mentioning

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Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models

Pungas

2023

Sustain Sci

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Bioeconomy as a new promissory discourse neither challenges the paradigm of economic growth, nor questions its embeddedness in capitalist (neo-)colonial patriarchal power relations. However, the calls for a ‘genuine’ socio-ecological transformation and for alternative bioeconomy visions imply exactly a destabilization of these power relations. Drawing on the Bielefeld subsistence approach and on its colonialism–capitalism–patriarchy nexus, I argue that the latest bioeconomy strategy and policy papers of both the EU and Estonia each disregard certain spheres of the bioeconomy due to the three-dimensional power relations. As a seemingly neutral political discourse, the bioeconomy is shaped by cultural assumptions and narratives that determine and perpetuate what is deemed worthy of protection and what is pushed aside as merely ‘natural’. As such, the current bioeconomy papers promote a ‘biomass-based model of capital accumulation’ that is essentially built on the prerequisite of the subordination, devaluation, appropriation and/or exploitation of (1) different geographical regions, (2) ecological foundations, and (3) prevalent bioeconomy practices. As a widespread agricultural practice in Eastern Europe, Food Self-Provisioning (FSP) serves as a good example of how predominant bioeconomy models (1) simply operate as new forms of postcolonial development discourse, instead of embracing the plurality of decolonial ‘alternatives to development’; (2) deepen the human–nature dichotomy by regarding nature as a mere resource to be extracted more efficiently instead of cultivating mutually nourishing partnership-like relation(ship)s with nature; and (3) maintain the separation between monetized and maintenance economies, rather than fostering ethics of care to overcome the structural separation between the latter.

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Section: The Bielefeld Subsistence Approach and Framework To Assess T...mentioning

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Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models

Pungas

2023

Sustain Sci

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“…I maintain that with some widening of concepts, feminist care theories (especially feminist care ethics and care economies approaches) are well placed to provide conceptual scaffolding for studying and understanding these abiding and emerging contexts. The initial 3Rsrecognition, reduction and redistribution of unpaid care work -remain central while also reorienting to socioecological and care crises (for example, Nelson and Power, 2018;Dengler and Lang, 2022). The 3Rs of feminist care ethics -relationalities, responsiveness and responsibilities -provide conceptual and practical resources to study and intervene in these crises, drawing attention to the interdependence, indeed the intra-dependence, of human and nonhuman beings and worlds.…”

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Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives

Doucet

2023

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article addresses two puzzles that are at the heart of the field of gender divisions of domestic labour. How is it that care concepts seldom appear in a field that is focused on unpaid care work? Why does the field focus on divisions rather than on relationships and relationalities? To address these puzzles, I interrogate some of the conceptual underpinnings in the field’s dominant theories: social exchange and ‘doing gender’. Through a weaving of Margaret Somers’ historical sociology of concept formation and Nancy Fraser’s historical mapping of capitalism, care and social reproduction, I aim to rethink and remake the field of gender divisions of domestic labour through care theories, especially feminist care ethics and care economies research. I argue that care concepts – which highlight relationalities, responsiveness and responsibilities – can radically re-orient how we approach the ‘who’ and ‘what’ questions of this field’s long-standing central focus on ‘who does what?’

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“…Degrowth is a multi-layered concept (D'Alisa et al, 2014). It combines critiques of capitalism (Feola, 2019), colonialism (Hickel, 2021), patriarchy (Hanaček et al, 2020), productivism (Kallis, 2019), and utilitarianism (Romano, 2019), whilst envisioning more caring (Dengler and Lang, 2022), just (Muraca, 2012), convivial (Vetter, 2018), happy (Fanning et al, 2021), and democratic societies (Brand et al, 2021). Capturing the essence of degrowth is difficult because it carries at least three denotations (Parrique, 2019: 171-234): (1) degrowth as decline of environmental pressures; (2) degrowth as emancipation from certain ideologies deemed undesirable, like extractivism, neoliberalism, and consumerism; and (3) degrowth as a utopian destination, a society grounded in autonomy, sufficiency, and care.…”

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Exploring degrowth policy proposals: A systematic mapping with thematic synthesis

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2022

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Commoning Care: Feminist Degrowth Visions for a Socio-Ecological Transformation

Cited by 44 publications

References 68 publications

Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models

Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models

Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives

Exploring degrowth policy proposals: A systematic mapping with thematic synthesis

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