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Envisioning an Environmentally Just Transition: A Case Study of the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal Campaign for Societal Transformation

Mace-Moore, James LU (2021) STVK12 20211
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions and the growing danger this poses has led to the emergence of several strategies to guide society away from further environmental degradation. Green growth is the pertinent global strategy, it calls for continued growth with the hopes to advance toward technocratic solutions. Conversely, the degrowth movement has emerged as a counter-hegemonic critique of growth and calls for a democratic downscaling; however, it has not yet been embraced by any powerful political institution. A third alternative, the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal, offers a consolidated policy plan for reform of the EU and its member states toward an environmentally just society, and is one of the first... (More)
The continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions and the growing danger this poses has led to the emergence of several strategies to guide society away from further environmental degradation. Green growth is the pertinent global strategy, it calls for continued growth with the hopes to advance toward technocratic solutions. Conversely, the degrowth movement has emerged as a counter-hegemonic critique of growth and calls for a democratic downscaling; however, it has not yet been embraced by any powerful political institution. A third alternative, the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal, offers a consolidated policy plan for reform of the EU and its member states toward an environmentally just society, and is one of the first campaigns to be developed in conjunction with degrowth intellects. Applying Gramscian and Gorzian theories of change and reform, this thesis analyses the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal campaign according to its actors, demands, audience, and the transformation envisaged. The thesis concludes that the Green New Deal’s proposed societal transformation aims to emerge from within capitalist institutions but has the potential to develop into a more transformative and potentially counter-hegemonic reform at a later stage, in this sense resembling a non-reformist reform. (Less)
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author
Mace-Moore, James LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK12 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
climate crisis, DiEM25, green growth, degrowth, counter-hegemony, reform
language
English
id
9046505
date added to LUP
2021-07-06 11:22:20
date last changed
2021-07-06 11:22:20
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  abstract     = {{The continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions and the growing danger this poses has led to the emergence of several strategies to guide society away from further environmental degradation. Green growth is the pertinent global strategy, it calls for continued growth with the hopes to advance toward technocratic solutions. Conversely, the degrowth movement has emerged as a counter-hegemonic critique of growth and calls for a democratic downscaling; however, it has not yet been embraced by any powerful political institution. A third alternative, the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal, offers a consolidated policy plan for reform of the EU and its member states toward an environmentally just society, and is one of the first campaigns to be developed in conjunction with degrowth intellects. Applying Gramscian and Gorzian theories of change and reform, this thesis analyses the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal campaign according to its actors, demands, audience, and the transformation envisaged. The thesis concludes that the Green New Deal’s proposed societal transformation aims to emerge from within capitalist institutions but has the potential to develop into a more transformative and potentially counter-hegemonic reform at a later stage, in this sense resembling a non-reformist reform.}},
  author       = {{Mace-Moore, James}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Envisioning an Environmentally Just Transition: A Case Study of the Democracy in Europe 2025’s Green New Deal Campaign for Societal Transformation}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}