Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

So far questions about migration and borders have been rarely touched upon within the Degrowth discourse. However, they need to be taken into consideration, particularly in debates of Degrowth and climate (in)justice, because they can be directly linked to growth societies of the geopolitical Global North and their imperial mode of living. One aspect of growth societies is that they live on the cost of others while stabilizing their way of living through closure and exclusion, such as through border regimes. This paper investigates extending Degrowth to include a border perspective, thus strengthening its outlook on global climate justice. Here the concept of ‘fortress capitalism’ is used as an example of such a border perspective. Fortress capitalism highlights elements of violence, control and restriction of border regimes and embeds them in the bigger picture of global capitalism. At the same time, the concept asserts how borders protect the imperial mode of living and thus growth societies in the Global North. Degrowth as a critique of growth societies and their imperial mode of living must then engage with the implications of these societies and how they exclusively stabilize themselves through borders. This is particularly true in times of increasing climate-related forced migration and countries of the Global North shutting themselves off through ever more repressive border regimes. The value of this contribution is for Degrowth to expand its reach to include questions around borders, and simultaneously deepen its narrative of global social ecological justice.

Info

Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 10:00
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-9
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Climate (in)justice

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