Framing essay: subjectivity in a diverse economy

Healy, Stephen; Özselçuk, Ceren; Madra, Yahya M.

doi:10.4337/9781788119962.00056

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“…Questions asked of members concerning their entry and motive to participate, what they gained from their involvement, and how they view their relationship to their respective organizations provided understanding about their engagement with Teikei as a diverse economy. Under the diverse economies approach, human subjectivity and its process of 'becoming' provide insight into what postcapitalist politics are desired to look like (Gibson-Graham, 2006;Healy et al, 2020). The findings of this paper are based on semi-structured interviews with 20 consumer-part-time workers, three consumer members, seven farmers, and multiple rounds of informal interviews with informant memberleaders both of the founding generation and current leadership in each respective group.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because AFNs are often interpreted as a universal term encompassing the wide variety of food systems that operate outside the mainstream (Tregear, 2011), the diverse economies lens provides a more intentional attempt to position AFNs outside conventional, monolithic corporate capitalism. For diverse economy scholars, diversity exists within markets, property, labor practices, social relations, and transactions (Gibson-Graham, 2006;Gritzas & Kavolukaos, 2016;Healy et al, 2020). Therefore, AFNs, which entail noncapitalist economic practices such as teikei, provide a useful understanding of what and how such alternatives exist within this heterogeneous landscape.…”

Section: Diverse Economies: a Relative Lens On Alteritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-energizing Japan's teikei movement: Understanding intergenerational transitions of diverse economies

Kondo

2021

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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In the 1960s-70s, Japan’s teikei movement, also referred to as Japanese community supported agriculture (CSA), emerged as a response to a period marred with multiple food scandals and environmental injustices and resulted in direct partnerships between consumers and organic farmers. Although this movement peaked in the 1990s just as the concept of alternative food networks (AFNs) gained popularity in western countries, little is known about what has happened to teikei today. This paper analyzes how teikei exemplifies diverse economies and explores how the possibilities of noncapitalist economic practice currently exist compared to the founding movement principles. Through case studies of two teikei groups in the Kansai region of Japan that transitioned their leadership to younger generations, I assess how changes made by current generations allow teikei to adapt to challenges that have long plagued the movement, such as the decline of volunteer labor provided by housewives. Drawing on a diverse economies approach, I argue that, despite current members’ detachment from strong activist identities, they sustain their organizations through part-time work, community building, and institutionalizing volunteer labor. The successes and struggles of current teikei groups provide insight into how AFNs seeking to build alternative economies can overcome difficulties that emerge from actualizing diverse economies.

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Section: Diverse Economies: a Relative Lens On Alteritymentioning

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Re-energizing Japan's teikei movement: Understanding intergenerational transitions of diverse economies

Kondo

2021

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…For example, the index item "race" has nine entries in the 500+ page volume. On closer examination, the way that authors are addressing race is to point to "toxic masculinity" drawing from hooks (1984;Walenta, 2020, p. 108); who performs care work (Dombroski, 2020, p. 154); diversity problems in community-supported agriculture programming (White, 2020, p. 219, 221); gentrification (Templer Rodrigues, 2020, p. 419); and affect (Roelvink, 2016, p. 434). 5 Some of these chapters take up race explicitly (Dombroski) and others make mention that race needs to be addressed.…”

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“…McKinnon, in the introduction to labour, situates strong theory as capitalocentric as it relates to labour exploitation (2020, p. 124). Healy et al, in their discussion of subjectivity, note that strong theory is a way to “anticipate every move ‘capitalism’ makes” (2020, p. 392). While these are, of course, topically focused essays intended to discuss economic diversity, the association of strong theory with capitalism in such a way automatically makes it a “no go” area for diverse economies scholars.…”

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Between paranoia and possibility: Diverse economies and the decolonial imperative

Naylor

Thayer

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Here we reflect on diverse economies scholarship following Gibson‐Graham's call to adopt performative practices for other worlds. Urging scholars to move from paranoia to possibility through weak theory methodology, their call provided momentum for work on economic difference that sustained critiques of capitalocentrism launched in 1996. In this clarion call to read for difference and possibility, a diverse economies framing facilitated a wholesale rejection of strong theory and paranoia. As a subdiscipline in the making, diverse economies scholars are challenged and critiqued as we seek to develop the framework and apply it to economic activities that exist within, alongside, and outside capitalism. Creating the language of diverse economies is continuous; here we consider a geopolitics of knowledge production in reading economic practice for difference, challenging the disuse of strong theory. We argue for deeper engagement with the power imbalances present in building liveable worlds, putting diverse economies and decolonial theory in conversation to address power and strike a balance between paranoia and possibility.

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“…The collective subjectivities focused on sharing, frugality and environmental knowledge produced by certain forms of tourism (de Jong & Varley, 2018;Germann Molz, 2014;Iaquinto & Williams, 2015) may resist the hyper individualism fostered by capitalism. The non-individualistic 'decentered' subject advocated by proponents of diverse economies (Healy et al, 2020) can be emphasized in tourism using practice theory where individuals are seen as 'carriers' of practices to which they have been 'recruited' (Shove et al, 2012). As practice theory decenters individuals by positioning them at the junction of multiple practices and social networks (Bargeman & Richards, 2020), it can be used to clarify the embeddedness of individuals within broad communities of human and nonhuman life.…”

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Locating pro‐environmental vernacular practices of tourism

Iaquinto

2022

Geography Compass

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Pro-environmental vernacular practices are embodied, place-specific, ordinary actions that are part of people's daily lives. They result in lower levels of resource consumption without necessarily being grounded in an explicit pro-environmental agenda. A growing body of cultural geographical scholarship has explored a range of vernacular practices, predominantly among households in Western countries. This paper argues such capacities can be found in a more diverse array of cultural contexts, namely tourism. This is demonstrated by evaluating the literature on tourist practices and entering it into a dialog with the literature on pro-environmental vernacular practices. The paper shows how tourism is an important site through which such pro-environmental practices can emerge. Backpacking, nature tourism, foraging tourism, camping, and craft tourism can provide the knowledge and skills for living enjoyable low resource intensive lifestyles, and indicate how relations of hospitality may persist despite scarcity. The paper advances geographical knowledge in three areas. First, it expands and clarifies what the 'vernacular' actually constitutes. Second, it shows how a greater understanding of the vernacular beyond the household can advance cultural geographical scholarship on the environment. Third, it argues that a deeper engagement with practice theory would boost research in this area by connecting vernacular responses performed at the individual level with broader postcapitalist social movements.

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Framing essay: subjectivity in a diverse economy

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Re-energizing Japan's teikei movement: Understanding intergenerational transitions of diverse economies

Re-energizing Japan's teikei movement: Understanding intergenerational transitions of diverse economies

Between paranoia and possibility: Diverse economies and the decolonial imperative

Locating pro‐environmental vernacular practices of tourism

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