Gift economy and well‐being: A mode of economy playing out in recovery from Rwandan tragedies

Otake, Yuko; Hagenimana, Fabien

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“…In Japanese culture, buying food from seven neighbours for a 7-year-old child is interpreted as sacrificing power from others (Befu, 1968). A tribe in Rwanda sees the gift given to them as a gift from god because of the well-being of gift-giving (Otake & Hagenimana, 2021). Rituals in gift-giving have been going on for centuries by different religions.…”

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Literature review of the sharing economy: Socio‐cultural perspective

Yildiz

Uzunöz

2023

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This article reviews the literature to explore the role of culture in the sharing economy. During the literature review process, we used the terms collaborative consumption, collaborative economy, gift economy, gift‐giving, mesh, peer‐to‐peer, and commercial sharing systems in addition to the term sharing economy. Thus, we offer a reasonably broad scope in our research. It analyses 89 articles through a systematic literature review to determine the role of society and culture in the sharing economy. In addition, it offers a theoretical and descriptive exploration of the sharing economy and culture. The research shows that cultural dimensions and sharing motives shape the role of culture in the sharing economy. In this context, we determine the dimensions of power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism–collectivism, masculinism, long‐ and short‐term orientation, and indulgence‐restrain. In addition, we determine economic, social, sustainability, materialism, and trust motives. It shows that materialism, economic, sustainability, and trust differ depending on cultural dimensions. This situation shapes the attitudes and intentions of individuals toward the sharing economy. In addition, the study lists the cultures studied and the theoretical approaches used in previous cross‐cultural studies on the sharing economy. The study shows that cross‐cultural studies often focus on the cultures of the United States, China, and India. Finally, we offer suggestions for future research.

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Section: The Socio-cultural Side Of Gift-givingmentioning

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Literature review of the sharing economy: Socio‐cultural perspective

Yildiz

Uzunöz

2023

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…While collecting data from research participants living in a monetarily poor community, Otake and Hagenimana's ethnographic study conducted in post-genocide Rwanda described a rich "gift economy" whereby community members exchanged goods and services in a form of circular economy [44]. The authors concluded that subjective well-being can be achieved through gifting and sharing, especially when communities have access to resources such as an abundant natural environment, social cohesion, cultural identity, and spirituality.…”

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“…The authors concluded that subjective well-being can be achieved through gifting and sharing, especially when communities have access to resources such as an abundant natural environment, social cohesion, cultural identity, and spirituality. Otake and Hagenimana claim that the findings of their ethnography contribute to "understanding the detailed process and mechanisms of why and how people can be happy without money" [44] (p. 939), and that subjective well-being can be realised even in communities that are financially impoverished and have experienced disruptive change. Arguably, there is a need for more studies such as Otake and Hagenimana's ethnography, which reveals a positive pathway towards achieving the SDGs while balancing the needs of the environment and economy.…”

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How Can “Community Voices” from Qualitative Research Illuminate Our Understanding of the Implementation of the SDGs? A Scoping Review

Mbah

East

2022

Sustainability

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In 2015, the United Nations committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to drive global development policy and practice. Six years into the implementation of the 15-year agenda, the SDGs are subject to extensive monitoring and research at the national, regional, and global levels using quantitative data sets. In contrast, this scoping review considered the contribution of qualitative research studies published in 2021, utilizing data collected from local, place-based community participants. Qualitative research with community participants connects global policy with place-based experience, thus potentially offering a valuable perspective on SDG implementation. Searches were carried out using the Scopus database to identify studies that explicitly linked their aims and objectives to the SDGs. Fifty-four papers met the criteria for inclusion in the review and were charted, mapped, and analysed. For the majority of studies, data collection was carried out in lower-middle income and low-income countries. The “voices” of community participants highlight tensions and challenges affecting the implementation of the SDGs. Reviewing this body of research as a whole identified opportunities to strengthen future qualitative research that will further illuminate progress towards the SDGs.

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“…Social DC is adopted to evaluate the social performances of sustainable infrastructure development. From a social benefit aspect, public wellbeing, public participation, and social mobilization have been emphasized in measuring infrastructure sustainability (Otake & Hagenimana, 2021; Schapper et al, 2020). Gansmo (2012) identified that better low‐carbon societies cannot be achieved without community stakeholders' engagement during planning.…”

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A heterogeneous decision criteria system evaluating sustainable infrastructure development: From the lens of multidisciplinary stakeholder engagement

Xue

Liu

Liang

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Sustainable Development

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The evaluation of urban infrastructure development is a decision-making process with multidisciplinary stakeholder engagement assessing sustainability metrics in different dimensions. However, there are uncertainties in such an evaluation caused by the heterogeneity between different stakeholders' preferences and the difficulty in differentiating sustainability decision criteria (DC). This study aims to formalize a multidisciplinary DC system to evaluate sustainable infrastructure development, which represents the preferences to DC metrics heterogeneously weighted by stakeholders. An empirical survey was conducted to collect the stakeholders' preferences to 50 sustainability DC metrics in which 91 infrastructure professionals from six disciplines (i.e., owner, architect, engineer, contractor, supplier, and consultant) were invited to participate. As a result, this study identified one common and six disciplinary DC sets and defined 20 DC factors with weights information structuring the multidisciplinary decision-making process, which indicates the multidisciplinary DC system is formal to be leveraged on assessing the sustainability performance of infrastructure development. In addition, the proposed multidisciplinary DC system is comprehensive in reducing uncertainties through determining the weights of DC metrics across various disciplines. Theoretically, the multidisciplinary DC system advances the knowledge of sustainability measurement by not only integrating the planet-people-prosperity framework and the product-organization-process framework but mitigating evaluation uncertainty through representing stakeholders' heterogeneity. For practical significance, such a multidisciplinary DC system will serve as a precursor for managers and policymakers in decision-making processes to enhance sustainability performances of infrastructure development.

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Gift economy and well‐being: A mode of economy playing out in recovery from Rwandan tragedies

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Literature review of the sharing economy: Socio‐cultural perspective

Literature review of the sharing economy: Socio‐cultural perspective

How Can “Community Voices” from Qualitative Research Illuminate Our Understanding of the Implementation of the SDGs? A Scoping Review

A heterogeneous decision criteria system evaluating sustainable infrastructure development: From the lens of multidisciplinary stakeholder engagement

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