Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

Capitalism reproduces injustices and inequalities across social and ecological life. System change is required, and systematic change is only transformative if addresses the conjunction of growth surplus and care deficits which are core causes of gross inequalities and environmental destruction. A care centric degrowth strategy can support a transformative equalising system change. This paper explores some feminist led intersectional struggles that seek to centre a care narrative as a way to promote degrowth.
Arguing for radical forms of institutional imagination, it argues that the challenge is not to produce blueprints but to democratically fix the compass firmly in the direction of transformative change and to establish the first steps in the journey towards that compass point. Recognising the reality of multiple pathways, the paper examines one possible pathway towards a care- centric degrowth; one that intentionally seeks to create institutional mechanisms to value and reward forms social participation that enable inclusion, democracy, equality and socio- ecological wellbeing. This section of the paper focuses on a form of eco social welfare future that seeks collectively mechanisms to meet need largely in the form of enabling institutions and universal basic services complemented by a form of income support that socially values care work and broader caring activity, a Participation Income. The paper concludes a form of degrowth narrative that opens up our imagination and democratic deliberation beyond western imaginary can advance forces of ecological and social reproduction towards a care centric world.

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Day: 2023-09-01
Start time: 10:15
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-2
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies

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