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A review by queereviews
The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter, Matthias Schmelzer
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Main Take Aways
1. Introduction:
degrowth-definition
Wallerstein-two-political-camps
the-green-new-deal
2. Economic Growth:
growth-definition
growth-as-a-social-progress
link-between-growth-capitalism-and colonialism
growth-as-a-lock-in effect
imperial-mode-of-living
3. Critiques of growth
ecological-critique-of growth
socio-economic-critique-of-growth
cultural-critique-of-growth
critique-of-capitalism-of-growth
feminist-critique-of-growth
critique-of-industrialism-of-growth
south-north-critiques of-growth
conservatives-critiques-of-growth
4. Degrowth visions
utopias-as-a-motivator-to-act
degrowth-and-its-different-currents
degrowth-principles
5. Policy-Making
pathways-to-Degrowth-through-policy-making
6. Making degrowth real
real-utopias-to-overcome-capitalism
now-utopias-risk-becoming-a-relic-in-the-town-museum
non-reformist-reforms-changing-institutions-and-policies
building-counter-hegemony-through-people-power
alliances-with-the-global-south
organising-movements
Thoughts/links:
- Goes to the root of systems of oppression. Can act as an umbrella for them and their social movements.
- Green ND criticised for continuing rather than challenging neo-colonial relationships (it does not take into account unequal relationships between rich and poor countries). Links: it does not seen through the lenses of queer theory and perpetuates racial capitalism.
- Growth - cognitive frame - growth as social progress - ideological construction that shapes our societies and how we understand the world.
- early colonial enterprises - trading companies - joint-stock companies = accumulation of capital
- Privatization of the commons - primitive accumulation.
- Many of the social and political achievements today fought within the context of growth. HOWEVER, achievements not thanks to capitalism, but of forces that opposed it.
- Role of influencers, celebrities and social media in the imperial-mode-of-living
- IMOFL exacerbated: alienation (karl Marx) silencing of the self - individual expression takes the form of the consumption of commodities
- We need to queer the economy - lack of attention paid to the social category of men - challenge hegemonic masculinity - new understanding of masculinities and gender role to destabilize these binaries.
- Economic decisions as political problems - commoning .
- International Solidarity - Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik - de-linking of the GS from neoliberal globalization and the exploitative trade and Financial systems dominated by the N. Corpos taking advantage of international wage and price differentials.
- Importance of interstitial strategies to be linked with macro-politics. And link to Cultural Critique of Growth. Building counter hegemony through people power: Naomi Klein = blockadia. Adbusting. Also other-way around: macro-politics to engagee with interstitial strategies.
1. Introduction:
degrowth-definition
Wallerstein-two-political-camps
the-green-new-deal
2. Economic Growth:
growth-definition
growth-as-a-social-progress
link-between-growth-capitalism-and colonialism
growth-as-a-lock-in effect
imperial-mode-of-living
3. Critiques of growth
ecological-critique-of growth
socio-economic-critique-of-growth
cultural-critique-of-growth
critique-of-capitalism-of-growth
feminist-critique-of-growth
critique-of-industrialism-of-growth
south-north-critiques of-growth
conservatives-critiques-of-growth
4. Degrowth visions
utopias-as-a-motivator-to-act
degrowth-and-its-different-currents
degrowth-principles
5. Policy-Making
pathways-to-Degrowth-through-policy-making
6. Making degrowth real
real-utopias-to-overcome-capitalism
now-utopias-risk-becoming-a-relic-in-the-town-museum
non-reformist-reforms-changing-institutions-and-policies
building-counter-hegemony-through-people-power
alliances-with-the-global-south
organising-movements
Thoughts/links:
- Goes to the root of systems of oppression. Can act as an umbrella for them and their social movements.
- Green ND criticised for continuing rather than challenging neo-colonial relationships (it does not take into account unequal relationships between rich and poor countries). Links: it does not seen through the lenses of queer theory and perpetuates racial capitalism.
- Growth - cognitive frame - growth as social progress - ideological construction that shapes our societies and how we understand the world.
- early colonial enterprises - trading companies - joint-stock companies = accumulation of capital
- Privatization of the commons - primitive accumulation.
- Many of the social and political achievements today fought within the context of growth. HOWEVER, achievements not thanks to capitalism, but of forces that opposed it.
- Role of influencers, celebrities and social media in the imperial-mode-of-living
- IMOFL exacerbated: alienation (karl Marx) silencing of the self - individual expression takes the form of the consumption of commodities
- We need to queer the economy - lack of attention paid to the social category of men - challenge hegemonic masculinity - new understanding of masculinities and gender role to destabilize these binaries.
- Economic decisions as political problems - commoning .
- International Solidarity - Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik - de-linking of the GS from neoliberal globalization and the exploitative trade and Financial systems dominated by the N. Corpos taking advantage of international wage and price differentials.
- Importance of interstitial strategies to be linked with macro-politics. And link to Cultural Critique of Growth. Building counter hegemony through people power: Naomi Klein = blockadia. Adbusting. Also other-way around: macro-politics to engagee with interstitial strategies.