What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach

Dengler, Corinna; Seebacher, Lisa M.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.019

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“…The expansion of post-growth ideas (Büchsa and Koch, 2019;Heikkurinen et al, 2019;Vandeverter et al, 2019), renaissance of interest in common goods (Perkins, 2019, Sokołowicz, 2017) and formulating the principles of a shared economy model, including cities as places of exchange (Agyeman et al, 2013, Harmaala, 2015 they all encompass elements characteristic for this period. At the same time, some people claim that the post-growth concept is still overly focused on ecological issues, without paying due attention to social, economic, class and political aspects (Fotopoulus, 2007;Dengler, Seebacher, 2019). This evolution was also accompanied by changes in the approach to the role and attitudes of a human in socio-economic and political processes.…”

Section: Evolution Of the Sustainable Development Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Podejście zespolone: włączający, inteligentny i ekologiczny rozwój miast

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2020

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The subject literature provides knowledge about various contemporary concepts of urban development, emphasizing a variety of goals and priorities of this process. Although sustainability should be a key objective of development policy, the methods of achieving it seem to be diverse. As a result, there are many theories describing development processes on a local scale, but there are no scientific attempts to summarise them or to comprehensively evaluate them. In the presented article such an attempt was initiated – the evolution of the concept of sustainable development in the context of transformation of the role of man in socio-economic and political processes from homo-oeconomicus to homo cooperativus was outlined and the assumptions of contemporary concepts of urban development (smart city, eco city and compact city) were identified and evaluated in terms of their cohesion and implementation of sustainable development principles. On this basis, a conceptual framework for an inclusive urban development model was defined, considering their key values in a synergic way.

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Section: Evolution Of the Sustainable Development Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Podejście zespolone: włączający, inteligentny i ekologiczny rozwój miast

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2020

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“…The cultural and historical differences-especially the colonial past and striking inequalities-between the two create tensions and put obstacles to possible alliances. However, with the criticism coming from the Global South, further dialog has recently been initiated-as in the first North-South Degrowth Conference in Mexico in September 2018which opens up the space to different conceptualizations of socio-ecological struggles and to the idea of living well 5 with shared common ideals (for an in-depth examination of these tensions between Global North-South alliances, see Rodríguez-Labajos et al 2019; and for a call for feminist decolonial degrowth approach, see Dengler and Seebacher 2019). Further constructive critiques on degrowth made a call for "bringing class analysis back in" (Leonardi 2019; for a comprehensive discussion, see also Vergara-Camus 2017; Andreucci and Engel-DiMauro 2017; Barca 2017).…”

Section: Learning From Existing Degrowth Debatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We, therefore, argue that blue degrowth has the potential to initiate a conversation and to embrace many of the critical debates, which are currently taking place in the critical marine social sciences as it has recently tried to expand through a range of other critical debates (see Dengler and Seebacher 2019;Leonardi 2019;Rodríguez-Labajos et al 2019;Andreucci and Engel-DiMauro 2017). This does not mean that the authors suggest that blue degrowth becomes a term to replace those debates, but, rather, it highlights the fact that one needs to position such debates with links to broader discussions of the capitalist growth imperative, and put forward new radical proposals for sustainable futures contra to the illusion of blue growth.…”

Section: Exploring the Different Dimensions Of Blue Degrowthmentioning

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Editorial: Blue degrowth and the politics of the sea: rethinking the blue economy

Ertör

Hadjimichael

2019

Sustain Sci

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1 Latouche (2015) comments on the understanding of the phrase 'decolonization of the imaginary' referencing the [philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis and his book The Imaginary Institution of the Society (1975) where a social reality is described as 'imaginary significations' meaning representations which mobilise feelings. In a social reality, therefore, in which (economic) growth has a strong imaginary signification, degrowth can only be realised once a growth-oriented imaginary is decolonized.

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“…Rather, demanding wage was supposed to unmask the invisible condition of possibility for the Fordist social compromise to hold: the assumption that the sphere of reproduction could provide free and infinite use-values. Feminism, in this sense, provoked the explosion of abstract social nature and is thus a key component of the connection between EJ and degrowth (Dengler and Seebacher, 2018).…”

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Bringing Class Analysis Back in: Assessing the Transformation of the Value-Nature Nexus to Strengthen the Connection Between Degrowth and Environmental Justice

Leonardi

2019

Ecological Economics

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The article aims at showing the relevance of understanding the transformations of class composition for strengthening the connection between degrowth and environmental justice (EJ). In particular, I suggest the heterodox line of Autonomist Marxism as enabling factor of such connection. From an ecological perspective, the changing components of the working-class can be grasped by assessing the historical development of the valuenature nexus, and specifically of labour's role within it. In fact, capitalism does not have but rather is an ecological regime. Value creation occurs not upon nature, but through itthat is, within socio-natural relations emerging from the articulation of capital, power and the environment. My basic argument is that in contemporary capitalism conditions of existence and reproduction of society have become key drivers for surplus value productionmost notably in carbon trading. Hence, EJ resistances are instances of class struggle and degrowth theoretical elaboration would benefit from incorporating such class-character. In this unprecedented situation, the task of the critique of political economy is not only that of unmasking ruling class' attempts to naturalize capitalism. It also requires resisting to elites' endeavours to directly capitalize nature.

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What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach

Cited by 67 publications

References 24 publications

Podejście zespolone: włączający, inteligentny i ekologiczny rozwój miast

Podejście zespolone: włączający, inteligentny i ekologiczny rozwój miast

Editorial: Blue degrowth and the politics of the sea: rethinking the blue economy

Bringing Class Analysis Back in: Assessing the Transformation of the Value-Nature Nexus to Strengthen the Connection Between Degrowth and Environmental Justice

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