CLASS 4: From the End of Growth to Degrowth: Perspectives from feminist economics (Bengi Akbulut)

This class is part of the Summer Crash Course 2021 on "Ecological & Feminist Macroeconomics" organised by Federico Demaria at the University of Barcelona.

The author of this class eventually participated in the live session on "Heterodox economics", available here:    • Session 2 - Heterodox Economics (Louison C...  

More details about the SCC: https://www.ub.edu/school-economics/s...
Programme and readings of the SCC: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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ABSTRACT
This session will provide (a) insights from feminist economics on economic growth and its critiques, and (b) introduce degrowth as an alternative from a feminist economics perspective. The students will first be familiarized with the history of feminist thinking that have challenged the mainstream approach to economic growth within economics and the different ways in which feminist economics have formulated the relationship between economic growth and its ‘others’. They will then be introduced to degrowth as a feminist alternative to organizing the economy, where social reproduction and the future of work will be paid particular attention.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bengi Akbulut is an assistant professor at the department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University. She received her B.A. from Boğaziçi University (2004) and PhD from University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2011), both in economics. Her joint and independent work appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Ecological Economics, Geoforum, and Environment and Planning among others. Her research is broadly within political economy, ecological and feminist economics. She has written on the critiques of developmentalism and economic growth in general, and the interlinks between developmentalism and state hegemony in Turkey in particular. A significant part of her work within the last 5 years has focused on economic alternatives, including community economies, commons and degrowth.
https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/beng...