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Degrowth-compatible Common Senses in Croatia

This article presents an overview of the recent research based at the Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb on degrowth-related attitudes and practices in South East Europe. The conceptual restrictions of the hegemonic discourses of progress and human security based on the high consumption of concentrated fossil energy and economic growth obscure the alternative transformative narratives. This article proposes that degrowth narratives provide such possible transformative conceptual nuggets, but must be introduced to the existing conceptual framework as a paradigmatic shift in values, attitudes and understanding. Such a shift is rooted in the counter-hegemonic common senses (it. sensi communi) that are already prevalent in societies, but are sidelined by the hegemonic discourse. The empirical part presents examples of practices and attitudes from Croatia, the most recent EU member state sitting at the EU’s south eastern flank, of food self-provisioning (FSP) practice and degrowth-compatible social attitudes. These empirical illustrations point to the existing base of counter-hegemonic practices, opinions and values that can provide sensibility for a degrowth-compatible transformative vision of social metabolism and cultural flourishing in an often overlooked part of the world.

degrowth, sensi communi, hegemony, practices, attitudes, food-self provisioning

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