Degrowth Group Assembly Process

Social Security

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Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

Which social security systems do we need for a degrowth society? How could they be secured, financed, organized?

If we organize the provision of social services by strengthening non-paid work and the care sector, what does it imply for gender, race or class relations?

Papers

C. Aall, “Investigating the potential of applying theories on rebound effects to the climate discourse: The case of climate change adaptation in winter tourism”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Degrowth2014_Aall_Rebound and climate.pdf (818.24 KB)PDF icon 3321.pdf (455.16 KB)
S. Abdallah, “BRAINPOoL: Lessons from the Beyond GDP world for degrowth”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon jeffrey_beyondGDPIndicatorsForADegrowthTransition_Brainpool.pdf (2.19 MB)PDF icon 3464.pdf (89.04 KB)
A. Acosta, “Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism  in Latin America”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3791.pdf (41.08 KB)
A. Acosta, “Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3792.pdf (50.53 KB)
A. Acquarone and Prohias, J. Pàmias, “The Foundation Theory”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3497.pdf (307.73 KB)
J. - L. Aillon, Dal Santo, Pstudent in, and Dal Santo, Pstudent in, ““Health and Degrowth”, a new paradigm in the field of sustainability”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Degrowth2014_Aillon_Health_Health and Degrowth, a new paradigm in the field of sustainability short .pdf (11.94 MB)PDF icon 3503.pdf (2.8 MB)
J. - L. Aillon and Dal Santo, Pstudent in, “Degrowth, youth and utopia: understanding the roots of distress in order to take ownership of our future”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Degrowth2014_Aillon_Sources of resistance. land grabbing, mining and youth distress_Degrowth, youth and utopia understanding the roots of distress in order to take ownership of our future.pdf (8.65 MB)PDF icon 3498.pdf (119.53 KB)
J. - L. Aillon, Guindani, M., Dal Santo, E., Zummo, S., Montis, A., and Pallante, M., “How to built, organize and manage degrowth movements rooted in the territory?”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Aill.pdf (253.23 KB)
R. Aitken, “Building a social and ecological economy through a social accounting model of banking”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3636.pdf (104.07 KB)
B. Akbulut, Adaman, P. Fikret, Arsel, M., and Avci, D., “De-growth as Counter-Hegemony? Lessons from Turkey”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3737.pdf (70.75 KB)

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Results from Leipzig 2014

Proposals for the Transformation

  • System for the process of transformation.

  • Avoiding future path dependencies (e.g. with regard to time banks → establishment of a bargaining, care not done by humanity, but by reward-seeking).

Vision

  • Access to Care should be unconditioned and guaranteed to everyone.

  • Independence of economic growth, of financial markets, of government budgets (?).

  • Resilient system that can be maintained in every kind of economic crisis: Resilience can be achieved by building the system on different pillars (e.g. one framing governmental pillar (professional care) and one pillar based on the communities (non-professional care).

  • Resilience by community support.

Open Questions

  • Conditionality of access to goods and services still to be discussed (could be e.g. conditioned by a contribution to the non-professional care sector → this would also free the Care sector partially from the performance of the economy).

Questions for further research

  • What can we learn from countries being /having experienced times of economic crises → What happened with the security systems? Which (maybe community based) systems established? Can we use these experiences for organizing the care sector? What is with pensions?

  • We need laboratories of the reality: i.e. With regard to community based systems that organize the provision of social services (care) (e.g. evaluation of time banks and other systems on the community level)

  • How can civil services help to free from the dependence on public spending? Empirical analysis of what happened in Germany after the abolition of the civil service? How can the contribution of civil services to the public sector be measured/ estimation of economic contribution?

Results from Barcelona 2010

Here you can find the results of the GAP at the Degrowth Conference 2010 in Barcelona that are particularly relevant for this working group. More.