{"id":18254,"date":"2016-02-25T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:48:15","slug":"critical-self-reflection-as-a-path-to-anti-capitalism-the-degrowth-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18254","title":{"rendered":"Critical Self-Reflection as a Path to Anti-Capitalism: The Degrowth-Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Critical Self-Reflection as a Path to Anti-Capitalism: The Degrowth-Movement<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>By\u00a0Sonia Goicoechea\u00a0<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Although growth-critique is currently in vogue and degrowth is mentioned favorably even\u00a0by the pope in his most recent encyclical<\/a>, there is as yet almost no scientific research on degrowth as a social movement.<\/p>\n

We can now present the first empirical findings on the character of this movement, based on a survey we did at the 2014\u00a0Degrowth-Conference in Leipzig<\/a>, in which 814 conference participants took part, and a cluster analysis of their responses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The main argument in our\u00a0longer essay in German language<\/a>\u00a0is that degrowth is an emerging but heterogeneous social movement representing in its essence a critique of capitalism and social domination that makes self-transformation and current collective practices the starting point for a broad societal transformation. Our conclusions can be summarized in four propositions:<\/p>\n

Disputes around degrowth and growth critique<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether degrowth should be considered a social movement or merely a platform for the discussion of alternatives is\u00a0controversially debated<\/a>, as is the emancipatory substance and transformative potential of growth critique. Moreover, degrowth is often criticized as merely reflecting the post-materialist discomfort of the wealthy, educated and privileged who needn\u2019t worry about issues of justice and distribution. Therefore, it is portrayed as a superficial and primarily cultural argument that avoids a critique of capitalism and, accordingly, confrontational political positions and practices.<\/p>\n

In contrast to this, Ulrich Schachtschneider has recently shown in an\u00a0analysis of the Leipzig conference program<\/a>\u00a0that at least the community gathered there does seem to be united in emancipatory approaches and a critical view of capitalism. Several other authors have attempted to further categorize the heterogeneity of growth-critical actors in order to specify the rightful addressees of such criticism.<\/p>\n

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Critical Self-Reflection as a Path to Anti-Capitalism: The Degrowth-Movement By\u00a0Sonia Goicoechea\u00a0 Although growth-critique is currently in vogue and degrowth is mentioned favorably even\u00a0by the pope in his most recent encyclical, there is as yet almost no scientific research on degrowth as a social movement. We can now present the first empirical findings on the character […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[5116,203,12630,12631,12632],"class_list":["post-18254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-anti-capitalism","tag-degrowth","tag-dennis-eversberg","tag-matthias-schmelzer","tag-self-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18255,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions\/18255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}