Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

Degrowth, as a broad spectrum of proposals and advocacies, is united in the demand that economic activity must undergo a ‘right-sizing’ to a level that respects socio-ecological boundaries and the minimum social foundations that ensure a dignified and good life for all. From the demand to establishing societies and economies that stay within those boundaries, the question arises of what role the state has and to what extent particular political formats are suited to facilitate that. With the insight that the liberal state is incompatible with degrowth, the search for alternatives references the Kurdish Freedom Movement and the associated political format of Democratic Confederalism. Democratic Confederalism is a political format that calls for the abolition of the state and the inclusion of environmental protection and feminism. This event presents the determination of whether Democratic Confederalism is a viable political format for degrowth societies. To fulfill the goals, a theory synthesis is used as the methodology to combine two different theories to generate knowledge that goes beyond the two theories on their own. The compatibility is determined by utilizing the Gramscian analysis and understanding of the state. The presented paper examines whether Democratic Confederalism edits and handles actors and elements within the integral model sufficiently to allow the implementation of degrowth to measure their compatibility. Because Democratic Confederalism aims at dismantling hierarchical and centralized state structures, the material conditions, as well as actors and structures within the civil and political society, are sufficiently addressed to foster the advocacies that degrowth proposes.

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Day: 2023-09-01
Start time: 12:00
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-1
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies

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