From an ‘Imperial Mode of Living’ to a ‘Caring Commons’

This chapter briefly sketches a degrowth perspective revealing the challenge of inequities within global production for trade and flows of trade, and offers a Minority World analysis-cum-response of those implicated in an 'imperial mode of living' (Brand and Wissen, 2021). An Australian activist who tries to exchange this mode for a 'solidarity mode of living' (Brand and Wissen, 2021) is tracked, including their move to eco-collaborative housing (a key housing for degrowth strategy). Zürich's 'radical young housing cooperatives' model is explored to demonstrate that accessible, affordable and ecologically sustainable best practice models of eco-collaborative housing incorporate aspects of an holistic, feminist, caring economy approach and have transformative potential to overturn the imperial mode of living, pointing towards a solidarity mode of living and caring commons. This discussion benefits from degrowth-aligned Majority World perspectives, engaging with degrowth discourses taking account of global dimensions of post-carbon inclusion

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