A caring and sustainable economy: A concept note from a feminist perspective
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A caring and sustainable economy : A concept note from a feminist perspective. / Biesecker, Adelheid; Darooka, Priti; Gottschlich, Daniela et al.
Berlin : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2014. (International policy analysis).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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T1 - A caring and sustainable economy
T2 - A concept note from a feminist perspective
AU - Biesecker, Adelheid
AU - Darooka, Priti
AU - Gottschlich, Daniela
AU - Lanuza, Magda
AU - Röhr, Ulrike
AU - Schildberg, Cäcilie
AU - Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela
AU - Ventura Dias, Vivianne
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The concept of a green economy as proposed at the Rio+20 Conference has been rejected by a broad range of civil society organizations, including feminist movements because they believe that such a »green economy« will not achieve the drastic decline in resource use that is required to reduce CO2 emissions or stop the loss of biodiversity and the overall destruction of our eco-system.Furthermore, the concept is criticized for being largely gender-blind with a strong reliance on green technologies and market mechanisms, while the economic model continues to rely on unpaid and underpaid care work, primarily performed by women.Hence, the multifaceted debates on care and sustainability have not yet succeeded in building a bridge between these two topics. In contrast to a greener economy that maintains the economic structure and profit-making capitalist logic of the existing system, feminists are stressing the need for structural changes in the economic system with an emphasis on integrative and distributional aspects of sustainable development.The main argument is that the sustainability of a new economic system will depend on converting the whole realm of reproductive forces into central pillars of economic thinking and acting.
AB - The concept of a green economy as proposed at the Rio+20 Conference has been rejected by a broad range of civil society organizations, including feminist movements because they believe that such a »green economy« will not achieve the drastic decline in resource use that is required to reduce CO2 emissions or stop the loss of biodiversity and the overall destruction of our eco-system.Furthermore, the concept is criticized for being largely gender-blind with a strong reliance on green technologies and market mechanisms, while the economic model continues to rely on unpaid and underpaid care work, primarily performed by women.Hence, the multifaceted debates on care and sustainability have not yet succeeded in building a bridge between these two topics. In contrast to a greener economy that maintains the economic structure and profit-making capitalist logic of the existing system, feminists are stressing the need for structural changes in the economic system with an emphasis on integrative and distributional aspects of sustainable development.The main argument is that the sustainability of a new economic system will depend on converting the whole realm of reproductive forces into central pillars of economic thinking and acting.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Green Economy
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - Care
M3 - Working papers
SN - 978-3-86498-897-4
T3 - International policy analysis
BT - A caring and sustainable economy
PB - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
CY - Berlin
ER -