Creative Construction
Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond
Edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg
Published
Feb 12, 2025Page count
304 pagesBrowse the series
Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st CenturyISBN
978-1529235128Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Feb 12, 2025Page count
304 pagesBrowse the series
Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st CenturyISBN
978-1529235135Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Feb 12, 2025Page count
304 pagesBrowse the series
Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st CenturyISBN
978-1529235135Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Creative Construction
Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.
This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards varieties of democratic planning. Drawing from current socio-economic and ecological movements, it explores what future non-capitalist democratic planning could look like.
Bringing together important voices in the ongoing debates from scholars to activists, this volume proposes an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond.
“This is the book that forms the starting point for anyone wishing to engage in contemporary debates on planning in/outside of contemporary capitalism. It brings to life what might be imagined in terms of how we use new technologies to re-engage the question, and actuality, of what a planned alternative to capitalism might look like.” David J. Bailey, University of Birmingham
Jan Groos is Researcher at Institute of Social Sciences at Christian-Alberchts University of Kiel.
Christoph Sorg is Researcher at Institute of Social Sciences at Ruhr-University Bochum.
Foreword by Kohei Saito
Introduction - Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg
Part I: Blueprints of Desire
1. A Brief Sketch of Four Models of Democratic Economic Planning - Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin
2. Basic Problems of a Democratically Planned Economy - Jakob Heyer
3. Social Dividend Socialism: Labour Autonomy in a Participatory Planned Economy - James Muldoon and Dougie Booth
4. Distributed Commonist Planning - Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti
5. Counter-Planning the Polycrisis: For Biocommunism - Nick Dyer-Witheford
6. Planning as an Art of Government - Jan Groos
7. Discovery Beyond Competition - Evgeny Morozov in conversation with Jan Groos
Part II: Building Bridges
8. (Re)-Imagining Housing as an Infrastructure for Social Reproduction - Rabea Berfelde and Philipp Möller
9. Democratic Planning in One Country? From the Anarchy of Public Planning to Negotiated Globalization - Christoph Sorg
10. The Question of Transformation: Approaches to Economic Planning in Existing Policy Proposals - Samuel Decker
11. Care Revolution: A Transformation Strategy for a Solidary Society - Gabriele Winker and Matthias Neumann
12. Relational Revolutions - Eva von Redecker in conversation with Jan Groos
Part III: Non-Boundaries
13. Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth - Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand and Matthias Schmelzer
14. Post-Sovereign Planning? Nature, Culture and Care in the New Socialist Calculation Debate - Samia Zahra Mohammed
15. Democratizing the Forces of Re/Production: AI Planning as a Sensing Device for a Degrowth Economy - Simon Schaupp
16. Embracing the Small Stuff: Caring for Children in a Liberated Society - Heide Lutosch
18. Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt - Nancy Fraser in conversation with Christoph Sorg
Conclusion - Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg
