New Directions in Economic Anthropology

Narotzky, Susana

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“…Along these lines, and in the context of the corporatist hegemony of references to "community" in regionalist rhetoric in Spain, Susana Narotzky and Gavin Smith propose a critical reading of "community" ideologies (Narotzky 1988(Narotzky , 1997Narotzky and Smith 2006). Both Narotzky and Smith criticize explicit references to cooperativism as "community economics" for being a (state-produced) ideologically manipulative scheme that reproduces hierarchy (G. Smith 1999;Narotzky 2004).…”

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“…Thus, co-ops are more complex and contradictory than often realized in the literature. The reason is not only, as is often argued, their exposure to impersonal institutions such as states (Narotzky 1997) and markets (Kasmir 1996) or, indeed, neoliberalism (Vargas-Cetina 2005Stephen 2005), but also their members' everyday embeddedness in sets of personalized relations of a stratified and classed character, glossed as mutuality.…”

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Which community for cooperatives?

Rakopoulos

2015

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Abstract:The literature on cooperatives often conceptualizes cooperativism as an organized effort to embrace community participation. Through the analysis of agrarian cooperatives in Sicily that were formally established to counter the Mafia and by ethnographically exploring the notion of community for cooperativism, this article aims to problematize this idea of cooperatives as "community economics". It proposes an anthropological approach that critically analyzes divisions of labor and the internal factions' divergent concepts of "community". In Sicily, workers in "anti-Mafia" co-ops recognize a sense of community and "way of life" in Mafia-influenced mobilizations outside the cooperative environment, contrary to the co-op administrators' legalistic views of community. The article illuminates how the fact that often co-op members draw on different ideas of community can lead to contradictions and tensions, especially as there are different social realities underlying those ideas.

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Rakopoulos

2015

Focaal

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“…Narotsky [ 11 ] indicates that a "resource is not one until it is known to be one by a human group," thus knowledge is key to resource " existence ," and she further indicates certain conditions that are necessary to call something a resource: its presence must be known its useful aspects for human life must be understood the means to harness this aspect must be discovered the social organization must permit [its] exploitation [ 11 , p. 9] These straightforward conditions reveal the importance of knowledge, understanding, meanings, and social organization. If we think of domesticated plants and the knowledge and practices regarding their cultivation, transformation and use, the meaning of resource reveals that what is at stake are not only the seeds of agriculture but also the associated knowledge and practices: there are tangible and intangible components to this heritage.…”

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A Human Rights Perspective on the Plant Genetic Resources of Mesoamerica: Heritage, Plant Breeder’s Rights, and Geographical Indications

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Ethnobotany of Mexico

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The values of the plant genetic resources (PGR) described in the previous chapters are multiple and cannot be overstated. These biological resources and the heritage they represent are being dissected by science and technology, and by laws, both multilateral and national, and rights are being claimed over them at various levels and on different grounds, individually and collectively, privately and as public goods. The main argument in this contribution is that natural and cultural heritage, biological resources, and intellectual property are legal concepts that should be grounded deeply in a human rights perspective, in particular on economic, social and cultural rights. A legal perspective provides context to the complex innovation and appropriation strategies that are taking place, by industrially oriented life sciences and technologies, but also by small rural producers and their associations, by social movements, by public research institutions, and by municipalities, states and nation states. From seeds as public goods and heritage of mankind to registered plant varieties and patented genes, many things have changed over the last three decades in the regulation of PGR. For better or for worse, legal developments have taken place, and they have impact on the conservation, research, documentation, and use of biological and genetic resources. The more or less recent multilateral legal frameworks reviewed include two conventions on world heritage, a convention on biological diversity, a treaty on PGR for food and agriculture, a convention on industrial property, the intellectual property rights obligations of a multilateral trade agreement, and a union with a binding act on plant breeder's rights. In heritage, cultivated plants, plant breeder's rights and geographical indications, we provide a quantitative panorama for this region in which we consider all continental countries from Canada to Colombia in a comparative approach that provides a wider context that is useful in framing the issues at various levels. The fact that PGR are essential for the future of humankind is recognized by all. How to best

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“…Development by selfbuild cannot therefore be regarded as a sort of material repository for the large-scale hoarding of capital. By contrast to homes procured through the housing market -a typical example of commodity fetishism wherein the human role in producing commodities is obscured by the anonymity of consumption through the market (Bloch and Parry, 1989;Narotzky, 1997;Graeber, 2001) -self-built homes exemplify, rather than obscure, the links between production and consumption. Self-built housing is not always a consumer choice in a marketcontext.…”

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Self-Build Homes

2017

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PrefaceSelf-Build Homes sets out to consider how understanding the social dimensions of self-build might advance theory, practice and research. A relatively understudied phenomenon, the few key academic texts on self-build -Duncan and Rowe's 'Self-provided housing ' (1993), Hardy and Ward's Arcadia for All (1984), and Barlow et al. 's Homes to DIY For (2001) -are still highly relevant, but do not reflect recent changes in housing policy and practice, housing provision, and concern over growing inequality of access to the housing market. This volume emerged out of the workshop 'Putting the social into alternative housing' convened as part of Michaela Benson's ESRC-runded research Self-building, the production and consumption of new homes from the perspective of households (ES/ K001078/ 1). The workshop foregrounded the social dimensions of the alternative housing practices (in their broadest sense) that are often the subject of scholarly research but seem to take a backseat within broader discussions of alternative housing. We feel that this volume is particularly timely given the renewed focus by policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means of producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households. Although there is undoubtedly a UK bias in this volume, we hope it has international salience: to help remind policymakers and practitioners based in countries with a healthy self-build sector why it is important to maintain it.Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the contributions to the volume explore the various meanings of selfbuild housing, as these emerge in discourse and through experience. They encourage a new direction, within discussions about self-building, that recognises the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households. In this way, the collection PrEfacE vi vi builds on rich traditions of research and theory on housing and planning, alongside conceptual work on these themes drawn from across the social sciences. We encourage each reader to reflect upon the question: 'Why selfbuild?' Many responses are possible depending on who is asked and which viewpoint they represent: self-builder, planner, policy manager, scholar or local resident. As with running an ultra-marathon or climbing Mount Everest, to which projects are often compared, self-builders themselves offer a range of motivations. We believe that these rational explanations tell some, but not the whole story; our aim in this volume is to provide a more complete and balanced picture. Michaela Benson and Iqbal HamiduddinMay 2017 Notes on contributorsMichaela Benson is a sociologist and ethnographer based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Underlying her research has been a longstanding interest in the intersections of space, society and the individual. She is known for her contributions t...

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New Directions in Economic Anthropology

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A Human Rights Perspective on the Plant Genetic Resources of Mesoamerica: Heritage, Plant Breeder’s Rights, and Geographical Indications

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