Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

Since the beginning of the 20th century our transport system is dominated by automobility and exacerbates the global climate crisis. Regardless of whether cars are powered by fossil fuels or electricity, they contribute not only to the ecological crisis due to emissions and extraction of resources, but also to social injustices on different spatial scales. People are affected differently by the negative impacts of the transport sector and have different access and opportunities to use the transport system. Against the knowledge of the contribution of automobility to the socio-ecological crisis and injustices, the question arises as to how the hegemony of automobility can be understood. Jessop and Sum (2013) have stressed the role of everyday practices, subjectivities and imaginaries in the constitution and reproduction of the hegemony of an economic order. With this rather new cultural politcal economy approach, the hegemony of automobility, the associated socio-ecological problems, the distributional injustices as well as the prevention of a social just transport transition can be explained not only by the power of large corporations and the interest of the state in these companies, but also by automobile subjectivities. As a result, the hegemony of automobility is understood by the interplay of the economic, institutional and discursive dimensions as well as the dimension of everyday practices.

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Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:15
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-KC-2
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon

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