01096nas a2200109   4500008004100000245007700041210006900118260001200187520070000199100001800899856006900917       2014                        eng d00aGrowth, Domination and Democracy. Shortcomings of the (De-)Growth Debate0 aGrowth Domination and Democracy Shortcomings of the DeGrowth Deb  aLeipzig3 aThe growth critical debate could be more fertile if economic growth were perceived more carefully in its connection with the ruling capitalist and patriarchal mode of production and living. Then we can understand economic growth as a social relation which is intrinsically linked to societal domination and, hence, reproduces social structures. Moreover, societal domination is the basis of unsustainable societal nature relations. After a quick overview over the debate, my argument is developed with reference to feminist and (neo-)Marxist debates as well as to insights from political ecology. Democracy, I conclude, is in contributions to the growth critical debate absent or just mentioned.1 aBrand, Ulrich  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3404