Organizing for transformation: post-growth in International Political Economy

The global political economy is organized around the pursuit of economic growth. Yet scholars International Political Economy (IPE) have been surprisingly slow to address its wide-ranging implications and, thus, advance debates about post-growth alternatives. premise article that for IPE deepen grasp escalation contemporary socioecological crises both analytically and normatively, it needs put growth question front center. To problematize from an perspective, we bring together research on green growth, post-growth/degrowth, sustainability transitions transformation. More specifically, develop analytical framework revolves four pathways reorganization toward sustainability: (1) modification, (2) substitution, (3) conversion (4) prefiguration. We use illustrative examples plastics food sectors show how prefiguration could interact trigger change sustainability. Notably, our discussion reveals conversion, which requires a strong state developing institutions, least traveled pathway in sectors. This insight points strategic priority proponents urgent agenda scholars.