A 'Purple Contract' for The Female-Citizen: Purple Degrowth

Abstract

Feminists define care work as the major obstacle for “female citizens” to transform their rights into capabilities. This study aims to show how the “everydayness” of women’s rights violations exacerbate the vulnerabilities of female citizens in a disaster context. It argues that the policies produced by the state without reference to the female citizen create a disaster trap and hurt the female citizen’s security “every day” as in disasters. Considering that crises provide opportunities for building better societies, the study offers an alternative vision for a ‘new social contract,’ especially for female citizens. It draws attention to the need to re-politicize, democratize, gender, and adopt a rightsbased approach to the issues of citizenship; such as, care, development, growth, disaster risk management, and restructuring for a new social contract. By building on Degrowth and Purple Economy literature, the study proposes Purple Degrowth as a “nowtopia” that will free the female citizen from the burden of care work, terminate the “fraternity contract” and build an egalitarian world.