Donnerstag, 04. Dezember 2014, 13:15 - 14:45 iCal
ipw lecture
How far for the money? Prosperity and democratic degrowth potential in Europe
HS 3 (D 212) im NIG, 2. Stock
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Lecture
Vortragende: Mladen Domazet und Branko An?i? (Institute for Social Research, Zagreb)
Moderation: Christina Plank (Institut für Politikwissenschaft)
Abstract: The lecture begins with the presentation of the findings published in a recent edited volume Sustainability Perspectives from the European Semi-periphery (http://issuu.com/idiz/docs/spftes-p), and is based on the data from ISSP Environment survey fielded in 2010 and 2011. We present the comparative findings in 18 European countries, based on indices constructed to reveal the prevalence of the potential within different national societies to support environmentally-motivated degrowth policies and practices. Going beyond general claims about prosperity and post-materialism, we offer a more nuanced view identifying the aspects of popular attitudes strongly correlated with the average national prosperity. By expanding them with measures of social inequality and international indicators of material deprivation, we expose the fallacy behind the expectation that only affluent European societies hold value orientations important for degrowth. Likewise, we challenge the belief that development of knowledge society will result in sustainability, by showing how a particular knowledge society's individual's environmental concern and behaviour vary with the society's contextualisation within the normative framework of neoliberal capitalism. Finally, turning from individual personal concern, activation and sacrifice commitment to the collective developmental practices we find that the dominantly European prosperity-related trend does not hold for normative trade-offs between societal metabolism and environment. We investigate the socio-demographic characteristics and contextual indices of generalized trust and redistribution support of the degrowth-oriented population across the European sample. In this way we aim to elucidate possible links between society’s objective potential to transform its practices and material throughput to those in line with degrowth-orientation for a globally just long-term sustainability, and its population’s support for required social transformations.
Veranstalter
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Kontakt
Christina Plank
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
+43 (1) 4277-477 02
christina.plank@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Freitag, 28. November 2014, 14:20
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 01. Dezember 2014, 08:15