Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

Degrowth is a multidisciplinary movement that argues that endless growth on a planet with limited resources is unsustainable and will inevitably lead to the collapse of the entire capitalist system. Abandoning the growth mentality and switching to a more sustainable development path requires several ideological and structural alterations. Since the natural movement in this direction tends to be too slow, political interventions are needed. For policies to work (and for them to be talked about at all), people need to be ready for the corresponding changes. This readiness is related to people's personal values, and general cultural values at national levels. This empirical study investigates people's readiness for degrowth and its change over time, using data from World Values Survey and European Values Survey for more than 80 countries. Degrowth values include more emphasis on leisure, family life, and voluntary work, readiness to live a simpler life and work less for money, support for the environment over economic growth, and postmaterialist values in general. Initial results show that overall support for degrowth ideas is relatively high, but varies across regions and has barely increased over time. Also, there are differences in individual-level and national-level values – simple aggregation rules do not always work and need further investigation and explanations.

Info

Day: 2023-08-31
Start time: 12:30
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-9
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon

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