Corinna Dengler

Vienna University of Economics and Business | WU · Department of Socioeconomics

This paper explores how debates on wages for housework in the 1970s contribute to current discourses on redefining, redistributing, and revaluing care. More specifically, this paper asks: How does a rereading of the international Wages for Housework (WfH) campaign contribute to feminist degrowth debates on commoning care and a care income? In tryin...

Debates on provisioning systems have become more widespread in recent years. Most of these discussions, however, have centered on the monetized economy. While they have elaborated on actors and institutions in the monetized economy, they tend to ignore the foundational role of unpaid provisioning processes. this article contributes to provisioning...

Keynote delivered at the 6th Foundational Economy Conference in Vienna

Using an (eco-)feminist Marxist-Polanyian theoretical lens, this article explores the diverse relations between contemporary care-crisis symptoms in Western Europe and its generative structures. It investigates the potential of three possible responses to the crisis to transform rather than reproduce these structures: (un)conditional cash transfers...

Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems. Feminist theories and methods that acknowledge and support diverse voices, knowledges, and practices are vital resources for building on heterodo...

Im Fokus dieses Sammelbandes stehen die Auseinandersetzungen mit der Sorgekrise in ihren Verflechtungen mit der sozialen und ökologischen Krise sowie Ansätze zu ihrer Bewältigung. Den Ausgangspunkt bilden dabei die Möglichkeiten, Caring Societies zu gestalten und zu etablieren. Sie werden getragen durch eine wechselseitige Sorge(verantwortung) in e...

Die Analyse von Wachstum und die Kritik an den zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen sind ein Ausgangspunkt für den Diskurs zu planetaren Grenzen. Inwiefern spielen feministische Perspektiven in der Wachstumskritik und im Postwachstum eine Rolle?

This paper addresses the question of how to organize care in degrowth societies that call for social and ecological sustainability, as well as gender and environmental justice, without prioritizing one over the other. By building on degrowth scholarship, feminist economics, the commons, and decolonial feminisms, we rebut the strategy of shifting ye...

In this paper, I defend the view that pluralism in economics needs to be metatheory-informed and that critical social scientists must reflect upon their underlying ontological, epistemological, methodological, and ethical assumptions. As a feminist ecological economist interested in making degrowth (more) feminist, I ask to what extent a critical r...

In: Preissing, Sigrun; Schubert, Gottfried; Lehner, Heidi (Hrsg.): In Zukunft ohne Geld? Theoretische Zugänge und gelebte Alternativen. Wien: Mandelbaum, S. 35–49.

Chapter on Degrowth in "The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics", edited by Günseli Berik and Ebru Kongar. Structure: (1) Introduction; (2) Conceptualization of Degrowth; (3) Feminisms within Degrowth; (4) Degrowth within Feminist Economics; (5) Toward a Feminist Economic Degrowth Research Agenda; (6) Conclusion

Der Diskurs um Degrowth/Postwachstum hat in den letzten Jahren vor dem Hintergrund sich zuspitzender ökologischer Krisen an Bedeutung gewonnen. Während die ökologische Wachstumskritik im Zentrum des Diskurses steht, werden feministische Wirtschafts- und Wachstumskritik oft nur ungenügend rezipiert und integriert. Die vorliegende Rahmenschrift zur k...

Disputationsvortrag

The crisis we face as a global community must be understood not only as a public health crisis, or as an economic crisis of the capitalist mode of production, but also, fundamentally, as a crisis of the reproduction of life. In this sense, it is a crisis of care: the work of caring for humans, non-humans, and the shared biosphere. The pandemic is a...

Published in Global Dialogue - a magazine of the International Sociological Association, 3 issues a year in 17 languages _____________________________________________________________________________________ Available here: http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/feminisms-and-degrowth-alliance-or-foundational-relation/

Degrowth calls for a profound socio-ecological transformation towards a socially just and environmentally sound society. So far, the global dimensions of such a transformation in the Global North have arguably not received the required attention. This article critically reflects on the requirements of a degrowth approach that promotes global intrag...

This paper addresses the question of how the current growth paradigm perpetuates existing gender and environmental injustices and investigates whether these can be mitigated through a degrowth work-sharing proposal. It uses an adapted framework of the “ICE model” to illustrate how ecological processes and caring activities are structurally devalued...