Caring democracy in a degrowth world: an ecofeminist-republican analysis

Based on an ecofeminist-republican conception of care, the second part of the thesis outlines an ecofeminist-republican state in which care work is no longer gendered nor undervalued by the institutionalised logic and practices of a GDP-obsessed capitalist economy. In deconstructing feminised and externalised care work, the thesis reconceptualises care as a practice of vulnerability-oriented green citizenship and suggests compulsory care service, based on the existing illustrations of ‘Part time for All’ and co-production.

Then this thesis exemplifies this conception of citizenship at the international level to challenge global ecological unsustainability. In doing so, it draws on a wide variety of empirical evidence from South Korea, Brazil, India, the Egypt-Sudan relations, and so on, and a post-colonial theory of degrowth, which is an important bridge synthesising social and gender justice and ecological sustainability. This post-colonial presentation is necessary so that any future plural heterodox economies do not override one another, which is a key argument of both ecofeminism and green republicanism.

Finally, on the basis of post-colonial justification, this thesis proposes a model of an ecofeminist-republican state from a degrowth perspective, focusing on its fiscal viability as well as policy recommendations.<br>