What Kind of Great Transformation? The Imperial Mode of Living as...: Ingenta Connect

Care not growth: Imagining a subsistence economy for all | Semantic Scholar

A materialist ecofeminist reading of t

<aside> 💡 I would like to draw attention to different economic concepts as it relates to the Anthropocene. Through our readings, we have learned that the pursuit of capitalism and development have rapidly created the contemporary climate crisis. Brand and Wissen introduce the imperial mode of living (IML) as a concept that “helps us to better understand both the persistence and spread of unsustainable patterns of production and consumption that deepen the crisis.” Yet, Salleh recognizes that the meta-industrial labor class work in the “real green jobs” that “synchronise with ‘the web of nature’, so regenerating social and ecological relations directly.” As an alternative to the “dominant development paradigm”, Di Chiro references Mies and Shiva’s “subsistence perspective” that paves a way towards a new solidarity economy. Its vision is to “go beyond government or private sector welfare or protections and instead lift up ‘people collectively finding ways to provide for themselves and their communities.’” Specific examples include:

• Highlights the importance of care work in the creation of new job sectors: “Nursing, teaching, food production, eldercare, child care, and ecosystem management”
• Participating in a range of solidarity economy institutions and practices: “Food production and urban agriculture, co-housing, producer–consumer cooperatives, healthcare, eldercare and child-care cooperatives, open software, and decentralised systems of renewable energy production and distribution”

How can alternative economies like the solidarity economy continue to survive in face of a globalized capitalist system?

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