Complementary Currencies in Europe

Calvo, Sara; Morales, A

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“…Insofar as the community currencies and applications intend to attract as many users and participants as possible (e.g., Makkie, Brixton Pound, Balaton korona) [94,95], the precise definitions and characteristics of the target social groups are broad, inclusive, and often vague. In the examined sample, we learned that the number of users is typically given within two timespans with no regular examinations of the scale over the operating period.…”

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Codesigned Digital Tools for Social Engagement in Climate Change Mitigation

Obracht-Prondzyńska,

Radziszewski,

Anacka

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Digital technologies and economies can strengthen participative processes and data- and knowledge-based sustainable urban development. It can also accelerate social integration and the efforts of urban dwellers towards more resilient urban environments. Gap: Most of the tools that strengthen participatory processes were not cocreated with stakeholders. Research shows that codesigned platforms driven by new technological advances and the development of collaborative sharing economy concepts can increase climate change awareness. Still, the rise of participatory innovation technologies does not focus on enabling social engagement in climate change mitigation. Therefore, this paper addresses a research question: can a codesigned community currency stimulate bottom-up initiatives for climate change mitigation, and what is needed for such tools to succeed with the implementation of climate-responsive policies? The aim was to introduce an approach allowing us to codesign an application to encourage pro-environmental behaviors. Hence, the approach of this research was to define the concept of such a tool as a part of a cocreation process with stakeholders in a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral environment. Method: It uses design thinking enriched with case studies evaluation, workshops, UX design, low fidelity, SUS, and testbeds. Findings and value: The authors introduce the Greencoin concept and argue that the codesigned digital currency operating based on an educational application has the potential to strengthen social engagement in climate change mitigation. Beneficiaries and practical implementation: Such a tool can increase climate awareness by supporting social integration and bottom-up initiatives for climate change mitigation. It can therefore be used by local communities to strengthen their climate-responsive efforts.

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“…The majority of experiments are local in nature, while the majority of operational community currencies are digital (or digital and paper)-e.g., Bristol Pound, Chiemgauer [86,95]. The majority of the examined currencies and applications are operational systems.…”

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Codesigned Digital Tools for Social Engagement in Climate Change Mitigation

Obracht-Prondzyńska,

Radziszewski,

Anacka

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…As the majority of Japanese CCs are composed of nonprofits or civic organizations (Izumi and Nakazoto, 2017: p.43), nonprofit theory emphasizing the importance of external stakeholders (Crutchfield and Grant, 2012: p.35) was taken into consideration.3. The role played by social or political bodies (Calvo and Morales, 2014). 4.…”

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Sustained circulation: A descriptive framework of long-lived Japanese community currencies

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Kobayashi

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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In spite of varied and sometimes underwhelming results, community currencies (CCs) continue to demonstrate potential for inducing beneficial regional development by means of technological innovation and creditable social outcomes. However, outside of the Western context, much still needs to be understood regarding their operation and management. Long-term durability in particular has been an issue that has been observed with CCs around the world. This paper aims to shed more light on this aspect of CC research from the Japanese perspective by formulating a descriptive framework of long-lived Japanese CCs. In order to accomplish this, 12 Japanese CC organizations that have each operated for at least a decade are investigated using a Grounded Theory approach (GT). The GT methodology was applied to a primary data set of transcribed interviews with CC leaders and organizers. This was supplemented by currency circulation reports, surveys among CC users, and observation of CC activities for the purposes of data triangulation. Leadership Continuity emerged as the core theme uniting these diverse organizations. An exploration of this theme reveals 3 broad operating forms of long-lived Japanese CCs, namely, LETS Passbook Communities, Subsidized Coupon Type CCs, and Non-Subsidized Coupon Type CCs. Additionally, 3 reliable funding strategies and 2 reinforcement factors were observed among the more robust organizations.

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“…It is possible in most urban areas to find prominent examples of at least some of the following: Critical Mass (Strüver, 2015), social centres (Yates, 2015), urban explorers (Garrett, 2013), dumpster divers (Vinegar et al., 2016), community gardens (Crossan et al., 2016), alternative currencies and economic systems (Calvo and Morales, 2014; Gibson-Graham, 2008; Gritzas and Kavoulakos, 2016), co-housing (Tummers, 2015), squatting (Vaseduvan, 2017), ‘empty spaces’ movements (Iveson, 2013; Parés et al., 2017), ‘space hijacking’ (Gilchrist and Ravenscroft, 2013) and, increasingly in conditions of austerity, parallel institutions providing, e.g. food, clothing, health treatment to poor and marginalised communities (Arampatzi, 2016; Daskalaki, 2017; Kousis and Paschou, 2017; Stavrides, 2014).…”

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Urban everyday politics: Politicising practices and the transformation of the here and now

Beveridge

Koch

2018

Environ Plan D

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This article responds to both ongoing urban practices and strands of urban theory by arguing for a (re-)turn to the everyday as a means of thinking about antagonism and political possibility. We examine how the everyday might be conceived politically and wonder what it is about the current conjuncture that is fuelling the reimagining of the political possibility of the urban. We develop the category of urban everyday politics to capture the politicised everyday practices observable in our towns and cities: collective, organised and strategic practices that articulate a political antagonism embedded in, but breaking with, urban everyday life through altering socio-spatial relations. While we make no empirical claims about the current impact of this form of politics, we assert the political potential of viewing the everyday as a source, stake and site of dissensus in current urban conditions. Politicising the urban everyday offers, we conclude, a strategy for transformative politics, one in which the state recedes from view, micro-political action is transcended and democratic possibilities lie in the transformation of the urban here and now.

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Complementary Currencies in Europe

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Codesigned Digital Tools for Social Engagement in Climate Change Mitigation

Codesigned Digital Tools for Social Engagement in Climate Change Mitigation

Sustained circulation: A descriptive framework of long-lived Japanese community currencies

Urban everyday politics: Politicising practices and the transformation of the here and now

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