An introduction to generative justice

Eglash, Ron

doi:10.5209/rev_tekn.2016.v13.n2.52847

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“…Arduino projects have inspired an enormous range of similar small scale start-ups, many having social justice or sustainability dimensions due to the influence of an enormous online community of DIY or "maker" enthusiasts (EGLASH, 2016b). As more of these startups begin to take over the functions that were previously carried out by the exploitative production of the upper left in figure 3, there is the possibility of a global shift towards generative justice.…”

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“…I refer the reader to Eglash (2016aEglash ( , 2016b for more details. We will then review the role of ethnomathematics, ethnocomputing and similar "translations" of indigenous knowledge to STEM, and examine how those relationships can be improved with a generative perspective and techniques.…”

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“…In commons-based peer production, for example, users engage in a variety of collaborative sharing practices ranging from radical LGBTQ activist organizing to whimsical fan fiction and cat videos. (BENKLER, 2006;EGLASH;BANKS, 2014 At upper left, regrettably, exploitative mass production continues to supply some of the components. But, at upper right, we see a hybrid cycle which is both open source and for-profit.…”

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“…For example, the Iroquois (the main focus of Marx's ethnographic analysis) established women's right to vote centuries before European or American nations did so; established communal labor crews so that all families received sufficient help with farming, and a food commons for sharing the fruits of their labor. Figure 1 is a flowchart from Eglash (2016b) showing the cycles of unalienated value in traditional Iroquois society. Note that it begins with a nonhuman generative cycle within the human cycles as the three sisters (corn, beans and squash) create an agroecology exchange (beans fix nitrogen into the soil for corn and squash; corn provides support for bean vines; squash decreases water loss, pests and weeds with broad spiny leaves).…”

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A mathematical tool kit for generative justice

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How can mathematics best contribute to social justice and sustainability? Distributive justice addresses poverty and related problems from the top down: by moving extracted value from private to state ownership. But, the history of bureaucratic socialism, from the pollution in the USSR to food shortages in Venezuela, shows just as many problems as capitalism. Generative justice, in contrast, works from the bottom up: replacing value extraction and alienation with value circulation. These generative cycles include unalienated labor, such as that we find in makerspaces and open source; unalienated ecological value such as organic farming, and unalienated expressive value such as sexual diversity, liberated arts, and other polysemic freedoms. This essay will review 3 aspects of ethnosciences (ethnomathematics, ethnocomputing and related disciplines) in relation to generative justice. In the case of indigenous knowledge systems, there is a danger of alienation of value as concepts are translated into models, and further abstracted into classroom curricula. In the case of vernacular knowledge systems, colonization by commercial interests has already occurred, and the challenge is to develop a decolonized alternative. Finally, in the case of school-community relations, a full generative cycle can incorporate economic, health and environmental flows of value by leveraging these generative STEM approaches. This essay will provide both theory and some initial results of this generative STEM approach to a more just and sustainable world. KEYWORDS:Ethnocomputing. Generative Justice. Self-organization. Nonlinear Dynamics. Indigenous. Ethnomathematics. RESUMOComo a matemática pode melhor contribuir para a justiça social e a sustentabilidade? A justiça distributiva aborda a pobreza e os problemas relacionados de cima para baixo: movendo o valor extraído da propriedade privada para a propriedade estatal. Mas, a história do socialismo burocrático, da poluição na URSS à escassez DOSSIÊ DOSSdossARTIGOde alimentos na Venezuela, mostra tantos problemas quanto o capitalismo. A justiça generativa, ao contrário, funciona de baixo para cima: substitui a extração de valor e a alienação pela circulação de valores. Esses ciclos geradores incluem os trabalhos não alienados, como, por exemplo, os espaços de produção e os códigos abertos; valores ecológicos não alienados como a agricultura orgânica e valores expressivos não alienados como a diversidade sexual, as artes liberadas e outras liberdades polissêmicas. Este ensaio revisará 3 aspectos das etnociências (etnomatemática, etnocomputação e disciplinas relacionadas) em relação à justiça generativa. No caso dos sistemas de conhecimento indígena, há um perigo de alienação do valor à medida que os conceitos são traduzidos em modelos e, posteriormente, abstraídos em currículos de sala de aula. No caso dos sistemas de conhecimentos vernaculares, a colonização por interesses comerciais já ocorreu, e o desafio é desenvolver uma alternativa descolonizada. Finalmente, no caso das relações...

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“…The universal right to generate unalienated value and directly participate in its benefits; the rights of value generators to create their own conditions of production; and the rights of communities of value generation to nurture self-sustaining paths for its circulation" (Eglash, 2016).…”

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Quantitative metrics for generative justice: graphing the value of diversity

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Hathaway²,

Krishnamoorthy³

2016

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Scholarship utilizing the Generative Justice framework has focused primarily on qualitative data collection and analysis for its insights. This paper introduces a quantitative data measurement, contributory diversity, which can be used to enhance the analysis of ethical dimensions of value production under the Generative Justice lens. It is well known that the identity of contributors-gender, ethnicity, and other categories-is a key issue for social justice in general. Using the example of Open Source Software communities, we note that that typical diversity measures, focusing exclusively on workforce demographics, can fail to fully illuminate issues in value generation. Using Shannon's entropy measure, we offer an alternative metric which combines the traditional assessment of demographics with a measure RESUMENLos académicos que trabajan en el marco de la Justicia Generativa se centran principalmente en el análisis cualitativo. Por ello, en este artículo introducimos una medida cuantitativa, la diversidad contributiva, que puede ser utilizada para mejorar el análisis de las dimensiones éticas del valor producido a través de la Justicia Generativa. Es bien sabido que la identidad de las personas que participan de un proyecto-su género, etnia y otras características personales-es un elemento clave para la justicia social. En este sentido, usamos el ejemplo de las comunidades de software de código abierto para destacar que las medidas clásicas de diversidad, que se enfocan exclusivamente en la demografía de la fuerza de trabajo, pueden no ser suficiente para iluminar el problema de la falta de diversidad en los procesos de creación de valor. Usando la medida de entropía de Shannon, desarrollamos una métrica alternativa que combina el tradicional análisis demográfico con la medida de la aportación de valor. Este cruce nos permitirá reconocer contribuciones a la diversidad que normalmente pasan desapercibidas, y evitar la opacidad de las prácticas de exclusión. No obstante, no presentamos la diversidad contributiva como la única medida óptima, sino más bien como una llamada de atención para fomentar la investigación sobre las posibilidades de medir cuantitativamente los flujos de valor que tienen lugar dentro de las comunidades, tal como son estudiados desde el marco de la Justicia Generativa. PALABRAS CLAVEDemografía; entropía; inclusión; software de código abierto; valor.

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A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics

Eglash

2018

Engineering a Better Future

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Engineering is closely tied to social and environmental destruction across the globe. The energy industry has created global warming, oil spills, acid rain, and toxins ranging from mercury to radioactive waste. Manufacturing has turned skilled crafts into low paid, repetitive assembly jobs. Information technology has accelerated wealth inequality such that the top 1% of the world's wealthy now own 50% of the wealth. One theory is that these detrimental effects have nothing to do with the engineering design; that they are merely the result of how capitalism forces us to use otherwise "neutral" technologies. But socialist experiments from the USSR to Venezuela have shown the same degree of pollution and poverty as capitalism. "The People's" radioactive waste left over from the USSR will kill you just as fast as General Electric's radioactive waste in the US. The destructive force of artifacts is immune to politics. However that is because both left and right ends of the political spectrum have focused on systems built for the extraction of value. A generative approach to engineering, in contrast, would design technologies specifically for maintaining value in unalienated forms, and circulating that value rather than extracting it. This paper will review this underlying concept of generative justice, and how that can be adapted to engineering practice.

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An introduction to generative justice

Cited by 58 publications

References 47 publications

A mathematical tool kit for generative justice

A mathematical tool kit for generative justice

Quantitative metrics for generative justice: graphing the value of diversity

A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics

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