Seminar: "Public support for eco-social policies in the United States", by Dallas O'Dell
Detalls de l'event
- Inici: 04 feb. 2025 15:00
- Online
The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) is excited to announce that our collegue Dallas O'Dell, a post-doctoral researcher presents a talk as part of our monthly public seminar series.
Seminar: "Public support for eco-social policies in the United States"
Speaker: Dallas O´Dell, ICTA-UAB researcher at REAL-postgrowth
Date: Tuesday, 4th February 2025
Time: 15.00-16.00 (CET)
Venue. Online - Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85281570097?pwd=YOmTi2fuBczauoVhyOl15UiSVnVuuB.1
Research on degrowth and its policy proposals has rapidly expanded in recent years. However, empirical evidence on public support, which is necessary for building a democratic and bottom-up movement, remains under-researched. Further, understanding the link between individual sufficiency behaviours, i.e., reducing one’s material consumption, and support for degrowth policies could unlock a pathway for garnering greater support. In this talk, I will present research empirically investigating public support in the United States for degrowth policies, its relation to sufficiency behaviours, and whether a degrowth framing influenced policy support. Our discrete choice experiment elicited perceptions of four commonly advocated degrowth policies: work time reductions, downscaling fossil fuel production, universal basic services, and advertising restrictions. The findings suggest an appetite for advancing eco-social policies in the United States. However, they also point to a nuanced relationship between sufficiency lifestyles and degrowth policy support that complicates strategies focusing on private consumption. This research provides a useful starting point for considering class-oriented communication strategies for building a wider degrowth movement.
Dallas O’Dell is a post-doctoral researcher at ICTA studying framing and communications of degrowth and its policy proposals. She is interested in exploring avenues to make the degrowth narrative more appealing to the working class and others for whom the agenda may not currently inspire hope. She recently completed her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis attempted to bridge the gap between psychological and behavioural science literature focused solely on individual-level sufficiency behaviours, and system-level change through degrowth endorsed in other disciplines.