Cultivating Community Economies

Gibson‐Graham, J. K.; Cameron, Jenny; Dombroski, Kelly; Healy, Stephen; Miller, Ethan

doi:10.4324/9780367313401-33

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“…In intervening in the common narratives deployed to discuss fair trade, I focus here on claims to promote consumer-producer solidarity, while also dislocating fair trade as an alternative to capitalism. This focus is consistent with evaluating the relationships of market exchange, between those who give and those who receive (Gibson-Graham et al, 2017). Although disputed and critiqued, the narrative of fair trade exchanges connecting the producer and consumer is long-standing in academic and popular literature on fair trade.…”

Section: Imagined Communities Asymmetrical Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…Instead, it multiplies the possibilities for how we produce knowledge about economic exchanges and power relations within them. In this paper, I acknowledge the critiques launched by fair trade and diverse economies scholars, yet, consistent with the reframing advocated by Gibson-Graham et al (2017), I aim to step aside and examine fair trade not as a capitalist or alter-capitalist undertaking, or determine whether it is working for producers, but instead consider the possibilities of a diverse site of exchange between disparate actors to think through fair trade differently.…”

Section: Diverse and Community Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The sale of certified coffee through the fair trade market is intended to reduce the nodes in the commodity supply chain thereby putting more income in the hands of coffee growers. If this economic practice fits in the community þ economy model as Gibson-Graham et al (2017) infer, then how can we understand exchanges of coffee in fair trade certified networks? Ultimately, in cultivating community economies, questions about life and livelihood are intended to prevail over those of wealth and accumulation.…”

Section: Imagined Communities Asymmetrical Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fair trade coffee exchanges and community economies

Naylor

2018

Environ Plan A

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Despite the shortened commodity chain created for coffee through fair trade, there still exist a number of actors within certified commodity exchange. This chain is populated by disproportionately engaged actors, from a consumer looking for the certification seal, to coffee roasters working directly with coffee producing cooperatives, to producers striving to keep up with the standards for certification. Despite such disparities, connections are made between the roasters and the growers of coffee at multiple sites, from community-based projects to the transfer of knowledge and storytelling beyond the communities where coffee is cultivated. These connections suggest that fair trade exchanges potentially go beyond the sale of a commodity, the creation of surplus value and the connecting of producer and consumer. In this paper, I draw on the expanding literature on diverse and community economies to examine fair trade exchanges. The heterogeneous space of the community economy provides a platform for considering the diversity of exchanges happening within, outside, and alongside capitalism. In this paper, I focus on fair trade certified coffee, moving beyond current explanations of fair trade as “alternative” and working toward a multiplying of our understanding(s) of what fair trade is. Utilizing data collected in Chiapas, Mexico with two coffee producing cooperatives and their U.S.-based partner roasters, as well as analysis of the, 2016 celebration of Fair Trade Month, I reframe fair trade to examine the power and privilege in certified exchanges and consider the broader fair trade network as a site of community economies.

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Section: Imagined Communities Asymmetrical Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 72%

Section: Diverse and Community Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Imagined Communities Asymmetrical Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fair trade coffee exchanges and community economies

Naylor

2018

Environ Plan A

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“…This understanding is pivotal for fostering an ethical and sustainable decisionmaking process in the realm of sustainable development. A more extensive study of the second-hand industry in Tashkent holds the potential to catalyze the development of community economies (Gibson-Graham et al, 2020). Consequently, it is recommended that the next phase of this research allocates additional attention to the surplus production, appropriation, and distribution (Cameron, 2020) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) within the second-hand industry in Uzbekistan and other relevant contexts.…”

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Redefining responsible consumption decent work: Insights from the second-hand industry in Uzbekistan

Marcombe,

Sayfullaev,

Islamova

2024

JEECAR

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The goal of this paper is to examine how the practices of small businesses engaged in acquiring, repairing, and reselling second-hand goods in Uzbekistan can contribute insights for shaping policies related to responsible consumption and decent work. Employing Gibson-Graham's method of reading for difference, this project aims to portray the diversity of the second-hand industry in Tashkent and reframe the narrative on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to render them more inclusive and performance-oriented. Data for the paper were gathered through a focus group and structured interviews with Uzbek entrepreneurs in four neighborhoods of Tashkent. The interview findings reveal that, beyond income and job security, entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan's second-hand industry highly value being self-employed and the connections their work allows them to establish with their customers. Moreover, this article underscores that responsible consumption is a dynamic concept primarily reliant on accessibility, creativity, and connectivity with one's surroundings and social network.

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“…Nancy’s notion of ‘being-in-common’ is fundamental for Gibson-Graham’s concept of community economy. Community, here, is the ‘never-ending process of being together, of struggling over the boundaries and substances of togetherness, and of coproducing this togetherness in complex relations of power’ (Gibson-Graham and Community Economies Collective, 2017: 5). Economy, then, becomes visible as the outcome of everyday decisions and actions around survival, well-being, relations, allocation, consumption, investments, and care (Gibson-Graham et al, 2013), with the community economy exposing economic practice as something that is always social and political.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social transformation and postcapitalist possibility: Emerging dialogues between practice theory and diverse economies

Schmid

Smith

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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While practice theories and diverse economy approaches are widely employed by human geographers, the two literatures have developed in parallel, rather than in dialogue. This article argues that this has constrained understandings of postcapitalist social change and traces an emerging theoretical conversation between these traditions. It outlines the potential of scholarly engagement with what we term ‘diverse practices’, especially when discussing the scalar possibilities and constraints of community activism. By grounding diverse economic scholarship in practice-theoretical conceptions of power, politics, and scale, the article proposes a materialisation of postcapitalist possibility and explores the barriers and facilitators of transformative geographies.

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Cultivating Community Economies

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Fair trade coffee exchanges and community economies

Fair trade coffee exchanges and community economies

Redefining responsible consumption decent work: Insights from the second-hand industry in Uzbekistan

Social transformation and postcapitalist possibility: Emerging dialogues between practice theory and diverse economies

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