Convention theory and neoliberalism

Diaz-Bone, Rainer

doi:10.1080/17530350.2015.1083879

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“…In Boltanski and Thévenot's (2006) influential account, conventions are produced through modes of coordination termed 'orders of worth', which are historically configured normative conceptions and principles of legitimate and worthy purposes and actions, which are configured and performed through particular spatial formations, thus linking to much broader social values and belief systems (Lamont and Thévenot, 2000;Diaz-Bone, 2016). These provide the justification for values, beliefs and norms of behaviour, and understandings of justice and legitimised priorities and actions, and which come to constitute agreement between actors and guide them through routine behaviour.…”

Section: A Conventions Perspective Of the Corporation Temporalities And Uneven Developmentmentioning

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“…This is followed by a discussion of the French school of conventions. These are constructs guiding behaviour and deliberative mechanisms that are utilised by actors in sites of deliberation, and are important in the space-time decision-making characterising uneven development (Diaz-Bone, 2016). In contrast to mainstream economic geography, a conventions approach provides a conceptual framework in which to explore the 'black box' of the corporation and the spaces of deliberation, contestation and agreement (see Brandl and Schneider, 2017), which are today integral to the agency exercised by corporations and reproduction of spatial divisions of labour.…”

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Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development

Fuller

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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The corporation remains a critical agent in the production of geographically uneven development. Furthermore, time is critical to the practices and deliberations taking place within corporations, yet it has been underappreciated within prominent economic geographical analyses. This article argues for the examination of the ‘black box’ of the corporation, as a site producing uneven development, and through which the temporalities of decision-making and deliberation are critical. Combined with the temporal insights of Harvey’s ‘social’ and ‘experiential’ space–times, conventions theory is utilised to elucidate the importance of the corporate deliberations and practices that come to produce uneven development. A conventions approach importantly provides a framework in which to examine the role of both conventionalised behaviours and how conventions are used in heterogeneous experiential space–time deliberations and decision-making and how this is interwoven with social spaces–times. Such an approach is critical in conceptualising the corporation as a deliberative social and experiential space–time series of sites and through which it is reified as a temporary instantiation.

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Section: A Conventions Perspective Of the Corporation Temporalities And Uneven Developmentmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development

Fuller

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Convention theory is generally concerned with how people coordinate their activities in social and economic life and stresses the role of conventions that serve as guides for people's actions and justifiable arguments for those actions (Wilkinson 1997). Besides noting a co‐existence of plurality of conventions in general and quality conventions in particular (Boltanski and Thévenot 1991; Diaz‐Bone 2016), convention theory rejects the idea that there is one best way to coordinate economic activities, as ‘real economic situations are characterised by a specific and historically pluralistic arrangement of different conventions, some of minor importance and others – even a single one – more dominant 2 .’ (Diaz‐Bone 2016, p. 215) It also maintains that actors are competent to adopt or switch conventions which they see appropriate for justifying their economic activities in a given circumstance (e.g., collective production of qualities) (Storper and Salais 1997; Diaz‐Bone 2018). For example, Itçaina et al .…”

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The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan

Chen

2021

Sociologia Ruralis

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Using the recent emergence of Taiwan's Erlin wine region as the example, this article studies the late development of a given peripheral agrofood sector. Specifically, it proposes an analytical approach that incorporates quality perspectives and the convention theory framework for better accounting for certain quality-pursuing approaches employed by latecomers in such industries to drive their upgrading and evolution. Through examining the ways in which quality is constructed, regulated and marketed by actors in Taiwan's Erlin region, and how and why they translated specific quality conventions into a local wine system for guiding their production and marketing practices, this article broadens our understandings of the divergent development dynamics within and processes of global agrofood latecomers, especially those in the wine industry. Additionally, as opposed to existing literature's emphases on building technological capabilities for facilitating quality upgrading of agrofood industries, we further suggest that the critical quality tasks for agrofood latecomers also involve the establishment of plural product qualities. As the Erlin case shows, it is through the individual and collective efforts of local actors to explore fluid definitions of wine quality, the late development of a wine industry in a global peripheral context thus was enabled.

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“…Pragmatic sociology helps us see, however, that even when a field is dominated by a particular logic, actors’ agency does not disappear. Rather, actors are capable of strategically and creatively drawing on neoliberal rationales to argue both for and against neoliberal policies (Diaz‐Bone 2016). From a pragmatic perspective, then, the measure of neoliberalism’s institutionalization in education is not whether alternatives become literally unimaginable to actors but rather the degree to which arguments employed even against neoliberal policies are themselves “internal” to its logic.…”

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Charter School Authorizations as Disputes: How School Board Members Justify Their Votes in a Neoliberal Context¹

Diehl¹

2020

Sociological Forum

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For charter schools to open they must gain the approval of an authorizing body, most commonly a local school board. When deciding whether or not to authorize a particular charter, school board members often engage in public disputes that entail clashes between multiple and conflicting conceptualizations of the goals of education. Drawing on insights from pragmatic sociology and institutional theory, this paper examines videos of 119 public meetings to document how members of a large, urban school board drew on competing ways of conceptualizing the common good to justify their votes on charter school authorizations. Moreover, it also shows how the neoliberal context of contemporary education limited the range of justifications used. Even school board members who argued against charter school authorizations did with justifications draped in neoliberal language. Neoliberalism thus impacted decisions not by becoming cognitively taken‐for‐granted but rather by shaping the range of arguments made for or against the choice to authorize particular schools.

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Convention theory and neoliberalism

Cited by 12 publications

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Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development

Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development

The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan

Charter School Authorizations as Disputes: How School Board Members Justify Their Votes in a Neoliberal Context¹

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Convention theory and neoliberalism

Cited by 12 publications

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Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development

Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development

The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan

Charter School Authorizations as Disputes: How School Board Members Justify Their Votes in a Neoliberal Context1

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