Project description
Ecological planning and historical planning experiments
Frameworks such as Degrowth (DG), the Green New Deal (GND), and Green Growth (GG) continue to debate the role of planning in addressing today’s social and ecological crises. However, there is a need for greater clarity on what planning means in the contemporary context. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EcoPlanAge project will reassess planning as a key political concept of the 20th century and develop a new framework for democratic, ecological planning fit for the 21st century. The project will explore the political theories and concepts of nature, time, and gender put forward by neoliberals Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich August von Hayek, and by socialists Otto Neurath and Karl Polanyi. It will also examine how these ideas influenced historical planning experiments.
Objective
EcoPlanAge revisits planning as one of the crucial political concepts of the 20th century and offers a new conceptual framework for democratic ecological planning in the 21st century. With climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, expressions like ‘war economy’, ‘plan’ and ‘new deal’ have ceased to be relics of the past. Degrowth (DG), Green New Deal (GND) and Green Growth (GG) rationalities are either praising or criticizing planning as an effective tool to tackle our polycrisis. Yet, some celebrate its democratic nature, others perceive it as authoritarian. EcoPlanAge identifies an urgent need for conceptual clarification: what precisely does planning mean in the contemporary era? On what grounds is it praised or criticized? By crossing political theory, conceptual history and political ecology it shows how DG, GND, GG rationalities are still influenced by the two strains that have characterized the 1920s socialist calculation debate on planning possibilities: the formal rationality of neoliberalism and the substantive rationality of socialism. EcoPlanAge selects four authors who affect eco-planning debates: Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich August von Hayek (neoliberal strain); Otto Neurath and Karl Polanyi (socialist one). It reconstructs their epistemological and political theories and analyzes the conception of nature, time and gender that underpin their planning frameworks by highlighting the interrelation between their political theories and the concrete historical planning experiments of their time (war economies, Red Vienna, New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, Soviet planning). Finally, it discusses the utility of these planning theories in thinking about a new conceptual framework for democratic eco-planning in our age of polycrisis. The project will be carried out at the University of Bologna (Prof. Michele Filippini, Prof. Emanuele Leonardi), at Boston University (Prof. Quinn Slobodian) and at Brunel University London (Prof. Gareth Dale).
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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40126 Bologna
Italy
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