Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/273418 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 215/2023
Publisher: 
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the state-socialist societies' transformation processes into capitalist societies? What experiences and practices before and after these transformations can potential degrowth societies build on? To what extent can people's experiences with an alternative system and its transformation contribute to unfolding their potential in a social-ecological transformation and to overcoming 'change fatigue'? We present key findings from our workshops, which we combined with our own empirical evidence from Estonia and a theoretical examination of (post-)socialist economics to form six theses that we consider essential for a decolonial degrowth debate.
Subjects: 
degrowth
social-ecological transformation
post-socialist transformation
subsistence farming
JEL: 
O44
P28
P30
P31
Q01
Q12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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