It is value that brings universes into being

Graeber, David

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“…Nevertheless, most participants in the study believed that involvement activities had intrinsic value, facilitating the implementation of MSC. The value attributed to involvement sustained the idea of involvement itself since as the anthropologist Graeber has remarked, value can be considered as the way in which specific activities are made meaningful to those involved. Investigating how value is produced—and for whom—through involvement might offer a way of rethinking impact assessment in involvement which Edelman and Barron have faulted for treating this as if it were an intervention in its own right, rather than integral to a larger process.…”

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Patient, carer and public involvement in major system change in acute stroke services: The construction of value

McKevitt

Ramsay

Perry

et al. 2018

Health Expectations

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BackgroundPatient and public involvement is required where changes to care provided by the UK National Health Service are proposed. Yet involvement is characterized by ambiguity about its rationales, methods and impact.AimsTo understand how patients and carers were involved in major system changes (MSCs) to the delivery of acute stroke care in 2 English cities, and what kinds of effects involvement was thought to produce.MethodsAnalysis of documents from both MSC projects, and retrospective in‐depth interviews with 45 purposively selected individuals (providers, commissioners, third‐sector employees) involved in the MSC.ResultsInvolvement was enacted through consultation exercises; lay membership of governance structures; and elicitation of patient perspectives. Interviewees’ views of involvement in these MSCs varied, reflecting different views of involvement per se, and of implicit quality criteria. The value of involvement lay not in its contribution to acute service redesign but in its facilitation of the changes developed by professionals. We propose 3 conceptual categories—agitation management, verification and substantiation—to identify types of process through which involvement was seen to facilitate system change.DiscussionInvolvement was seen to have strategic and intrinsic value. Its strategic value lay in facilitating the implementation of a model of care that aimed to deliver evidence‐based care to all; its intrinsic value was in the idea of citizen participation in change processes as an end in its own right. The concept of value, rather than impact, may provide greater traction in analyses of contemporary involvement practices.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Patient, carer and public involvement in major system change in acute stroke services: The construction of value

McKevitt

Ramsay

Perry

et al. 2018

Health Expectations

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“…Central to our understanding of this kind of emerging social differentiation associated with the distinction between skilled and unskilled labour is the exploration of how conceptual differences, and associated differences in perspectives between people with different life‐experiences, relate to and play out in local arenas of practice (e.g. in the villages, and in state institutions such as the schools) (Graeber : 229‐33). To bring out the particularities and tensions of what locals often describe as an increasingly problematic social differentiation in Tokelau, I draw on Sylvia Yanagisako's perspective on kinship and gender ().…”

Section: Tensions Of Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The effects of the new state and associated labour regime on the egalitarian value system are discussed in relation to conceptualizations and negotiations of moral value related to traditionally gendered occupations such as fishermen and weavers, and to other practices of kinship and leadership. What I call ‘tensions of value’ is based on my reading of David Graeber's perspective on value as generative of what he calls ‘universes’ (Graeber ). By ‘universe’ he refers to the totality of a system of production and reproduction, and central to his understanding of how such totalities emerge is value.…”

Section: Tensions Of Valuementioning

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State, labour, and kin: tensions of value in an egalitarian community

Hoëm

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This essay discusses the effects of a state apparatus and new forms of labour in a kin‐based egalitarian distributive economy. The atoll society of Tokelau is currently establishing a modern state, largely financed by aid, but also through revenue from Tokelau's fisheries zone. The new labour regime associated with the introduction of a state administration is in practice entangled with an egalitarian distributive system of production and reproduction. The local kin‐based leadership is able to incorporate and use the system of capital in an egalitarian fashion. Whether it will be able over time to accommodate social inequality – that is, the division of villagers into skilled and unskilled workers with potentially qualitatively different access to livelihoods – is, however, an open question. Where comparative studies from Aboriginal Australia describe unequal access to work and standards of livelihoods by reference to ontology, and hence by implication to ethnicity, the tensions experienced in Tokelau take place within one social network in which new forms of labour contribute to a devaluation of skills associated with gendered patterns of livelihoods. From this devaluation follows a potential loss of sustainability for the atoll society should the capital flow move elsewhere.

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“…These effectively dignify the whole system because tivaivai are the valuables that express the most profound and closest of bonds in the domestic sphere. This mode is writ large in the public sphere (Graeber 2001: 73;2013;Turner 2006b: 20) by the performance of the use and/or gifting of tivaivai in an ostentatiously public way, along with the public gifting of envelope-wrapped money.…”

Section: Tivaivai Value and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cook Islands Tivaivai and the Haircutting Ceremony in Auckland: Ritual Action, Money and the Parameters of Value

Horan¹

2017

Sinuous Objects: Revaluing Women’s Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific

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It is value that brings universes into being

Abstract: Yet at the same time, I am convinced that if it isn't, this is very bad news for the project of anthropology. In a very real sense, anthropology could be said to have

Cited by 236 publications

References 32 publications

Patient, carer and public involvement in major system change in acute stroke services: The construction of value

Patient, carer and public involvement in major system change in acute stroke services: The construction of value

State, labour, and kin: tensions of value in an egalitarian community

Cook Islands Tivaivai and the Haircutting Ceremony in Auckland: Ritual Action, Money and the Parameters of Value

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