Roberto Rocco and Katherina Ritcher
There are two ideas that have been discussed in the last two days. The first is about the responses that people have to everyday issues. Insurgent citizenship, a way to collectively react. People react all the time, in what way is the concept useful?
I see it as a way to understand collective action. To recognize its potential as a legitimate response to socio-economic coercion. It might fail, that is not the point of the concept. The usefulness lies in it bringing up certain images and processes that tell us that this reaction is more than just an ad-hoc response.
The second idea is de-growth, defined as a new way of arranging economic, autonomous from the way growth economy functions. An economic system driven by justice and democracy.
Questions: Consider the water-crisis in Bengaluru. What are the insurgent practices that enable access to water for the poor?
What are the larger economic changes needed to enable a just water distribution system?
Final question: What are the city-wide dynamics which perpetuate issues of ecological crisis? Are we even looking at the real issues? (think back to conversations with Vishwanath).
Can we have 'realistic' deceptions of potential degrowth practices in Global South? Maybe they are already unfolding. Listen carefully.