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Abstract

This is a paper-based doctoral thesis on economic planning that tries to grapple with questions about what the recovery and rehabilitation of economic planning thought and practice – as always already ecological planning – implies for organizing alternatives in and beyond the present climate conjuncture. The thesis, therefore, draws on and contributes to the new economic planning literature that is emerging across the critical social sciences and humanities, which sees elements of democratic economic planning as fundamental to postcapitalist ecological transitions and futures. By drawing on eco-feminist and eco-marxist thought, the thesis explores how economic planning might be reimaged and reframed from the standpoint of the more expansive web of value relations beyond the wage-commodity nexus. To this end, it makes the case for economic planning qua ecological planning as fundamental to healing the web of life, and thus argues for an oikology of planning that encompasses the co-constitutive and mutually imbricated realms of production, social reproduction, and the labour of nature as moments in the internally differentiated but unitary whole of metabolism. In doing so, it also calls for greater attention to the differentiated processes of subjectivation across uneven and combined geographies of accumulation, which might animate, or inhibit, struggles and visions to organize for planetary justice. At the heart of the thesis, is an empirically-grounded study of planning with and for the cooperative and social solidarity economy. This involved studying emergent forms of economic planning in the Barcelona metropolitan region, in the context of new municipalist confluences in Barcelona and beyond. The empirical study examines how questions of social metabolism and social metabolic sovereignty have been incorporated into planning in Barcelona, focusing on urban-agrarian questions of economic planning with the aim of reflecting on lessons learned and issues that might be faced in planning in, against, and beyond the climate crisis. In sum, the doctoral thesis contributes to furthering understanding about the organizational landscapes out of which a democratic ecological planning for all might emerge.

Publication Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Departments:	Bayes Business School > Bayes Business School Doctoral Theses Bayes Business School > Management Doctoral Theses

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