Notion of multiple crisis and feminist perspectives on social contract
- The concept of multiple (economic, ecological, social and political) crisis has arisen from recent tumultuous economic events. This paper uses a feminist perspective to present the concept as a crisis of regeneration of both nature and social reproduction. We intend to go beyond multiple crisis using the notion of a new social contract, to overcome this crisis in a transformative way towards sustainability. A feminist analysis of the concept of social contract is founded on the critique of domination and is based on Carole Pateman's, 1988 thesis that the modern social contract is characterized by a "separating inclusion" of women. It also refers to Val Plumwood's critique of the separated and autonomous self, which is part of all classicalThe concept of multiple (economic, ecological, social and political) crisis has arisen from recent tumultuous economic events. This paper uses a feminist perspective to present the concept as a crisis of regeneration of both nature and social reproduction. We intend to go beyond multiple crisis using the notion of a new social contract, to overcome this crisis in a transformative way towards sustainability. A feminist analysis of the concept of social contract is founded on the critique of domination and is based on Carole Pateman's, 1988 thesis that the modern social contract is characterized by a "separating inclusion" of women. It also refers to Val Plumwood's critique of the separated and autonomous self, which is part of all classical conceptions of social contract. We argue that overcoming the multiple crisis requires overcoming structures of separation and re-envisioning concepts of the individual, by discussing the German example of a "Social Contract for Sustainability" (2011). If the notion of social contract is to become a catalyst for transformation processes leading to sustainability, it cannot be overarching but has to be developed as a multitude of small new social and local contracts.…
Document Type: | Peer-Reviewed Article |
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Author: | Adelheid Biesecker, Uta von Winterfeld |
URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-68837 |
DOI (citable link): | https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12206 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Source Title (English): | Gender, work and organization |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 3 |
First Page: | 279 |
Last Page: | 293 |
Divisions: | Zukünftige Energie- und Industriesysteme |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Licence: | In Copyright - Urheberrechtlich geschützt |