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. Bauhardt, “Degrowth and Ecofeminism: Perspectives for Economic Analysis and Political Engagement”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3347.pdf (105.31 KB)
M. Bauwens, “Farm-hacking open agricultural machines: the role of peer-based open design communities in achieving sustainable production”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3760.pdf (31.35 KB)
M. Beck, Homer-Dixon, D. Thomas, and Lawrence, M. A. Michael M., “Energy, Complexity, Democracy .. Collapse?”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3658.pdf (63.1 KB)
S. Becker, “Bridging the gap of less sustainable lifestyles in society – members of permaculture coined communities and their role as change agents towards the Great Transition”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3533.pdf (142.88 KB)
B. Best, “Urban Transformations: Infrastructures and Degrowth”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Best.pdf (226.63 KB)
G. Betz, “Serious Pleasure. Motivation in fun-emphasising social movements”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3327.pdf (23.69 KB)
C. Biermann and Mansfield, P. Becky, “Socioecological Dynamics of Resurgent Forests: Lessons for Degrowth”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3489.pdf (117.29 KB)
A. Boccato-Franco and Nascimento, P. Elimar, “Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Degrowth: Is it possible a common platform of action and discourse?”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Degrowth2014_Boccato_Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Degrowth: Is it possible a common platform of action and discourse?.pdf (71.74 KB)PDF icon 3569.pdf (156.62 KB)
P. Bofill and Vallejo, F. Pardo, “The bare necessities: Pushing from monetary economics back towards natural economies”, Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. Leipzig, 2014.
P. Bofill and Vallejo, F. Pardo, “The bare necessities: Pushing from monetary economics back towards natural economies”, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Bofi.pdf (235.38 KB)

Participants

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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.