Alternative Economies of the Forest: Honey Production and Public Land Management in Northwest Florida

Watson, Kelly

doi:10.1080/08941920.2016.1209265

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“…The diverse economies approach has recently gained prominence in the studies of economic plurality (e.g. Watson, 2017; Houtbeckers and Taipale, 2017; Zademach and Musch, 2018; Krueger et al , 2018; Rose, 2019; Fletcher, 2019; Soaita, 2019). This approach frames the economy as being constituted of various organisational forms and logics of valuation.…”

Section: Economic Diversity and The Self-organised Alternative Economiesmentioning

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Economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies: the Finnish cases of ridesharing and timebanking

Eskelinen

Venäläinen

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThis paper explores economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies and argues that the diverse economies approach is particularly useful in elaborating the self-understandings of such economic communities. The analysis focuses on two types of alternative economies in Finland: ridesharing and timebanking.Design/methodology/approachThrough qualitative data, the paper looks into moments of negotiation where economic moralities of self-organised alternative economies are explicitly debated. The main research data consists of social media conversations, supplemented by a member survey for the participants of the studied timebank. The data are analysed through theory-guided qualitative content analysis.FindingsThe analysis shows that the moments of negotiation within alternative economies should not be understood as simple collisions of mutually exclusive ideas, but rather as complex processes of balancing between overlapping and partly incommensurable economic moralities. While self-organised alternative economies might appear as functionally uniform at the level of their everyday operations, they still provide considerable leeway for different conceptions of the underlying normative commitments.Originality/valueTo date, there is little qualitative research on how the participants of self-organised alternative economies reflect the purpose and ethics of these practices. This study contributes to the body of diverse economies research by analysing novel case studies in the Finnish context. Through empirical analysis, this paper also provides a theoretical framework of how the different economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies can be mapped.

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Section: Economic Diversity and The Self-organised Alternative Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies: the Finnish cases of ridesharing and timebanking

Eskelinen

Venäläinen

2020

IJSSP

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“…Over the past decade, social scientists from diverse disciplines have provided a critical lens on the social mechanisms that shape these factors. Studies have focused on policies driving lost access to prime bee forage in both rural contexts (Durant, 2019b; Watson, 2017) and urban environments (Edwards and Dixon, 2016). Others have highlighted the industrialization of honey bee production for agriculture (Durant, 2019a; Kosek, 2010; Lorenz, 2016; Nimmo, 2015), alongside the exclusion of beekeepers from conservation and pesticide policy processes that could better support honey bees (Maderson and Wynne-Jones, 2016; Suryanarayanan and Kleinman, 2013).…”

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Ignorance loops: How non-knowledge about bee-toxic agrochemicals is iteratively produced

Durant

2020

Soc Stud Sci

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In this article, I examine the knowledge politics around pesticides in the United States and the role it plays in honey bee declines. Since 2006, US beekeepers have lost an average of one-third of their colonies each year. Though a number of factors influence bee health, beekeepers, researchers and policymakers cite pesticides as a primary contributor. In the US, pesticide registration is overseen by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the required tests conducted by chemical companies applying for registration. Until 2016, the EPA only required chemical companies to measure acute toxicity for non-target species, which means that many pesticides with sublethal toxicities are not labeled bee-toxic, and farmers can apply them without penalty while bees are on their farms or orchards. In addition, California state and county regulators will typically only investigate a bee kill caused by a labeled bee-toxic pesticide, and so emergent data on non-labeled, sublethal pesticides goes uncollected. These gaps in data collection frustrate beekeepers and disincentivize them from reporting colony losses to regulatory agencies – thus reinforcing ignorance about which chemicals are toxic to bees. I term the iterative cycle of non-knowledge co-constituted by regulatory shortfalls and stakeholder regulatory disengagement an ‘ignorance loop’. I conclude with a discussion of what this dynamic can tell us about the politics of knowledge production and pesticide governance and the consequences of ‘ignorance loops’ for stakeholders and the environment.

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Forest landscapes increase diversity of honeybee diets in the tropics

Cannizzaro

Keller

Wilson

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Alternative Economies of the Forest: Honey Production and Public Land Management in Northwest Florida

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies: the Finnish cases of ridesharing and timebanking

Economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies: the Finnish cases of ridesharing and timebanking

Ignorance loops: How non-knowledge about bee-toxic agrochemicals is iteratively produced

Forest landscapes increase diversity of honeybee diets in the tropics

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