Format/Structure

conventional academic panel, presenters present papers and then a round of questions and discussion.

Long Abstract

In recent years, democratic economic planning has emerged as a vision for a post-capitalist economy, offering an alternative to the ecological destructive market economy. This imaginary has been partly developed through planning models: abstract configurations of alternative economic structures and institutions. These include the Half-Earth Socialism model from Vetesse and Pendergrass (2022), the Commonism model from Sutterlütti and Meretz (2023), the ecological planning model from Cedric Durand and Rasmig Keuchen (2024) and many others. While they vary in their specifics, at the center of all these proposals are alternative mechanisms for organizing production and distrubition via democratic participation and deliberation, while also integrating social-metabolic sustainability.

As an emerging branch of utopian thinking, these proposals remain necessarily incomplete. In particular, they remain connected to conventional conceptions of economy and labour (largely masculine industrial labour), and, as Planning for Entropy (2022) argue, ecology is still to narrowly concieved. Imaginaries of planning must further be transformed by perspectives of care and reproduction, global-south centered economic and ecological transformation, and diversity in human and more-than-human relationships with nature.

This pannel seeks to understand democratic planning as a powerful Post-Capitalist narrative. Secondly, it wants to challenge the existing frame of economic planning and take it beyond its existing terrain, transforming this vision in the process. As democratic planning, at its core, is about the negotiation between diverse lived realities, democratic planning itself must be subjected to deliberation from a pluriversal perspective and therefore may become part of a democratic process towards utopia(s) . We invite contributions which combine discussions of planning with the topics of reproduction and care, gender, race, north-south relations, decolonization, dissability and ableism, more-than-human relations, ecology, contemporary social and ecological struggles, commons, and other post-capitalist imaginaries.

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