Beschreibung
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 possible responses to the crisis – (un)conditional cash transfers, universal basic services (UBS), and time politics – to transform rather than reproduce these structures. Drawing upon critical realism with an emphasis on Jessop’s three-step process of variation, selection, and retention, we seek to make sense of the dynamic between competing crisis construals and their effects on actuality. To answer our research question What transformative potential lies in different responses to the contemporary care crisis?, we move from meta-theoretical abstractions to a theoretically grounded, concrete application of critical realism in the social sciences. We conclude that a symbiosis of time politics and UBS together with a universal, but not unconditional, guaranteed (minimum) income offers substantial transformative potentials.| Zeitraum | 2022 |
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| Ereignistitel | 14th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Konferenz |
| Ort | ItalienAuf Karte anzeigen |