Bengi Akbulut on Feminism and Degrowth (Rethinking Economics Kiel)

Topics: Degrowth, Feminism, social reproduction, the future of work, pluralist economics

Lecture held 10th November 2021, 6 pm

Feminism and Degrowth

Speaker: Bengi Akbulut, PhD (Concordia University - Montreal, Canada)

Bengi Akbulut is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University (Canada).

Description:
Degrowth is often misunderstood as a reduction of GDP. Rather than that it aims at reducing material consumption and thus environmental impact while at the same time focusing on human wellbeing instead of economic growth. In this lecture Bengi Akbulut will include a feminist economics perspective on the critique of growth, with a special focus on social reproduction and the future of work.

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Lecture Series: Economy for Everyone! - Plural perspectives for a sustainable economy
Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Organized by students' initiative Rethinking Economics Kiel
Regular date: Tuesday 6 p.m. via zoom
In coorporation with "Zentrum für Schlüsselqualifikationen" (ZfS) at Kiel University

This talk is part of the lecture series “Economy for Everyone!”, where scientific questions and concepts are discussed with a focus on economic and inter-disciplinary thinking.
It is organized and moderated Rethinking Economics Kiel, a local group part of Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik and Rethinking Economics International.
RE Kiel actively works towards establishing pluralist economics teaching and research at Kiel University.

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