Battery factories and peri-urban gardens: notes on the place and scale of degrowth alternatives in CEE
In: 9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb, 2023
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This draft paper is a contribution to a panel series organized at the 9 th InternationalDegrowth Conference in Zagreb, which asks how we can think the CEE region not only asa site of capitalist extraction, but also as a ground for postcapitalist alternatives. Thequestion asked by the panels is backed by ongoing threads of research and debate onpost-capitalist possibilities in the region, recently summarized by Cima and Sovová (2022)as a proposal to blend diverse economies thinking (Gibson-Graham 2008) with recent callsto transcend the notion of post-socialism as an image of eternally lagging transition tocapitalism (Müller 2020), and instead recognize existing non-capitalist economic practices(e.g. Jehlička and Daněk 2017) as elements of the region’s specific potential for post-capitalist futures. I will address the question of this specific potential by bringing in insightsfrom Marxist and world-systems traditions on the systemic integration of dependentregions, the role of informal reproductive economy, and the global position of state socialistand post-socialist systems. I point at two examples from Hungary that illustrate theseinsights within the current conjuncture: food self-provisioning in allotment gardens, andreindustrialization through the EV battery boom. Based on these insights and twoexamples, I discuss how specific interlinkages of capitalist extraction and informalreproductive practices characteristic to the region’s global integration can be conceived asa strategic ground for building reproductive social power, as a practical application of adegrowth communist agenda that takes both capitalist conditions and the degrowthimperative seriously.
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Battery factories and peri-urban gardens: notes on the place and scale of degrowth alternatives in CEE
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Gagyi, Agnes |
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Zeitschrift: | 9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb, 2023 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
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