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Strategies for Basic Provisioning
Erik Olin Wright in Practice
In the context of environmental, inequality, housing and energy crises, Degrowth Vienna has chosen to focus its 2023 activities on basic provisioning. Through interactions with various boroughs, associations and networks, Degrowth Vienna is developing general and field-specific degrowth proposals for meeting everyone’s basic needs in the city.
Building on its expertise on strategy, Degrowth Vienna aims to bring the session’s participants to think strategically at the local scale, and to wisely use theoretical knowledge for informing practical proposals and policy-making. We will explore basic provisioning in cities, resting on the examples of Vienna and other cities or policies participants will be familiar with. Experience that Degrowth Vienna gained from the publication of "Degrowth & Strategy" as well as its knowledge on the Erik Olin Wright framework will serve as the base of our common reflection.
Following an introduction to Chertkovskaya’s adaptation of the Wright framework for classifying strategies (Chertkovskaya 2022) and some of its main criticisms, participants will get updated on the guidelines and concrete proposals that Degrowth Vienna will have developed since January 2023 on basic provisioning in Vienna. Participants will be invited to critically reflect on the Wright framework, firstly theoretically, and secondly based on their reflections on concrete proposals for basic provisioning at the city-level. They will be encouraged to be creative, and to bring their own insight and examples. Following a comparison of theory and practice, participants should come out of the session with realistic tools to propose, and assess, concrete urban degrowth proposals.
Info
Day:
2023-09-02
Start time:
11:30
Duration:
01:30
Room:
CMR-park 1
Type:
Non-academic Session
Theme:
Degrowth as a political project?
