An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

Gibson‐Graham, J. K.; Roelvink, Gerda

doi:10.1002/9781444397352.ch15

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“…Most notably, Andy (Vegetal) commented that, despite Vegetal's clear aim to promote vegetarian and organic food, he would not want to include "vegetarian" in the organisations objectives in case a future member felt that it was appropriate to sell ethically sourced meat. Andy's comment brings to the fore members' understanding of democracy as an act of being open to present and future others as communicative beings (Gibson-Graham and Roelvink, 2010: 324; see also Webb and Cheney, 2014). This understanding resonates with Byrne and Healy's (2006: 250;emphasis added) claim that "The challenge is not in constructing [the] subject in relation to a particular symbolic order (the law governing coops), but in keeping the space of decision open, keeping the negativity of communal production intact at every phase […] of collective economic activity".…”

Section: Understandings Of Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Langmead¹

2017

JEOD

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This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives' dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically, it adds to limited empirical literature countering the degeneration thesis by arguing that ongoing processes of individual-collective alignment, understood as central to the practice of democracy, help cooperatives to: balance varying and conflicting needs and aims; challenge the assumption underpinning the degeneration thesis; and transform degenerative "risks" into creative and productive spaces where new meanings and practices can be formed.

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Section: Understandings Of Democracymentioning

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Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Langmead¹

2017

JEOD

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“…Davidson-Hunt et al [1] suggest a number of "guiding coordinates", framed as orienting questions, that may aid communities and groups of actors as they navigate the challenging process of purposefully mobilizing biocultural resources to meet locally identified needs and interests through biocultural design (Biocultural design coordinates are also reexamined by Turner, Davidson-Hunt and Hudson [57] in relation to the gourmet product development strategy in the Central Valley and biocultural sustainability). The idea of guiding coordinates builds on the concept of ethical coordinates proposed by Gibson-Graham and Roelvink [105] and elaborated on by Bargh [106], in their work on alternative, postcapitalist economies. Coordinates resonate with the metaphor of alternative economic development as processes of wayfinding [1], in which constellations of coordinates may come together to "shape decisions, moral judgments and subsequent effects for peoples and the environment" [106] (p. 281).…”

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Creole Hens and Ranga-Ranga: Campesino Foodways and Biocultural Resource-Based Development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia

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Davidson‐Hunt

Desmarais

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Biocultural heritage-based products, including regional specialty foods, are increasingly part of sustainable rural development strategies. While export-oriented biocultural products are often the most visible, we examine the role of campesino gastronomic heritage in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia, as a case study of a local market-centered biocultural resource-based development strategy reflected in an alternative agri-food network. We develop a biocultural sustainability framework to examine this network from ecological, economic and sociocultural perspectives. Data are drawn from interviews (n = 77), surveys (n = 89) and participant observation, with primary and secondary producers of traditional and new products, as well as restaurant owners, market vendors and local consumers. We find that campesino biocultural heritage and the alternative agri-food network surrounding it represent an influential territorial project that underpins many household economies, particularly for women. We conclude that the relatively small investments by local governments to promote campesino gastronomic heritage are having positive ripple effects on small-scale producer livelihoods and on biocultural sustainability. We suggest that further support to increase market access and reduce other barriers to participation in alternative food networks will likely increase the options and benefits available to small-scale producers mobilising campesino gastronomic heritage within the local economy.

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“…Allegedly, we entered a new epoch when "human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems". Even before an official approval as a scientific category, the term had spread in many environmentalist publications and in media language (Gibson-Graham and Roelvink 2010).…”

Section: Anthropocene and Taxonomymentioning

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Unimaginable hence unmanageable: new names for invisible urban places

Poli¹

2017

City Territ Archit

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A name cannot change the city and our relationship with places. However, new terms for now-nameless spaces will help to change people's perception and their capability of seeing what they have never seen before. The geographer's taxonomic effort to re-designate urban places and typologies involves a political and ideological content. Most urban spaces are unmanageable because they fit neither with current technology nor with the social organization. Urban design requires new interpretations of and ideas about the awareness and form of settlements. Elaborating on what we learnt in the past is no longer enough to kindle creativeness and innovation. In the tradition of classic geography, I call for a new classification of urban places, which is meant to find names for places we do not "see" and therefore we cannot catalogue. A new classification of human settlements is a step forward on a new path to perceive, define and eventually plan them. A new perception of metropolitan areas leads to a different relation between area and administration; hence between urban places and representation of citizens.

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An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

Cited by 38 publications

References 19 publications

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Creole Hens and Ranga-Ranga: Campesino Foodways and Biocultural Resource-Based Development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia

Unimaginable hence unmanageable: new names for invisible urban places

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