The Wealth of (Some) Nations

Cope, Zak

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“…The top 10% and a fortiori the top 1% of consumers contribute much more to CO 2 emissions than the remaining 90% or 99%. China, for example, despite its much-heralded rise as an offshore platform for multinational corporations, is a net exporter of value to the core even while it carries out its own EUE with Cambodia through deforestation for timber and Brazil for soy (Cope, 2019;Frame, 2019). Metals and rare earths are similar: while needed for all kinds of clean-tech, currently production is concentrated in Western China, placing the Yellow River Basin in great peril, because rare-earth mines in the United States were closed amid rising ecological loads (Kalantzakos, 2018;Klinger, 2018).…”

Section: Unequal Exchange and Ecological Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: Towards equal exchange and the end of population

Tilley

Ajl

2022

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In this article, we draw attention to similarities and synergies between eco-fascist and liberal forms of populationism which encourage reproductive injustices against Indigenous women and women of colour globally, increasingly in the name of climate change mitigation. Calls to intervene in the bodily and social autonomy of racialised women, at best, distract from ecological crisis and, at worst, encourage violent forms of reproductive injustice. We urge instead for an honest reckoning with the root problem of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) as the system of global extraction, which enacts environmental harm and reproductive injustice. Finally, we call for an anti-imperialist eco-socialist move towards equal exchange on a world scale to end the flow of undervalued resources from the South and to limit the contaminating activities these enable. We also stress that an anti-imperialist eco-socialism needs to be attuned to the teachings of reproductive justice movements and resistant to creeping liberal eugenicism, as much as to the overt eco-fascism which has proved so deadly in recent years.

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Section: Unequal Exchange and Ecological Crisismentioning

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Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: Towards equal exchange and the end of population

Tilley

Ajl

2022

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“…The value claim that manufacturing in China 'does not add value' involves a foreclosure of the idea that those involved in manufacturing the gadgets he sells add any value at all. This value claim clearly makes the magical entrepreneur the source of value at the expense of others, a claim which refuses to acknowledge the realities of global value extraction and transfer (Cope, 2019;Smith, 2016;Suwandi, 2019). But it is not simply the falsity of S's vision that is interesting but rather the truth that this falsity brings to light.…”

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Ordinary entrepreneurial psychosis

Santisteban¹,

Jones

2022

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This paper introduces the concept of ordinary entrepreneurial psychosis. This concept was discovered in the analysis of a case study of a tech entrepreneur in Colombia and elaborated with the aid of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Specifically, we draw on Jacques Lacan’s conception of the discourse of the capitalist and his distinction between repression and foreclosure ( Verwerfung). The practice of entrepreneurship, we argue, is the most perfect instantiation of what Lacan called the discourse of the capitalist. This is a discourse without limits characterised by denial of castration and lack, a discourse that at is most radical promises liberation through a break with the symbolic order, the relation to the other, and indeed with the world as such. In this particular case study, such a break is materialised in a literal belief in magic, a specifically modern and non-occult magic of deception and misdirection that promises great results from nothing. Such magical thinking, we argue, is at the heart of the entrepreneurial fantasy. To explain this broken relation to symbolic order that is characteristic of entrepreneurship, we draw on Lacanian theory and in particular Jacques-Alain Miller’s concept of ‘ordinary psychosis’ to explain the structural homology between entrepreneurship discourse and the analytic category of psychosis. The structure of this discourse, we argue, brings with it not only magical and hallucinatory thinking, but moreover what we propose here to call ordinary entrepreneurial psychosis.

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“…5 This article contributes to an ongoing process within and beyond the academe: the goal is to bring the university and academic research closer to the goals of social justice. This includes shedding light on the relevance of indigenous viewpoints in combating a concept of "development" that enforces accumulation on a world scale through the extraction of value made possible by the unequal development of nations (Amin, 1974;Cope, 2019;Ness, 2016;Smith;. An understanding of global capitalism that takes into account this political and economic unevenness that shapes global culture and international trade is an approach that historicizes the development of cultures and economies in a contemporary world largely shaped by a history of colonialism and neocolonialism.…”

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Modalities of the Sacred in the Lumad Struggle for Sustainabilities and Futures

Raymundo

2024

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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Indigenous peoples enact and cultivate local knowledge based on their own developed practices of resource use, which are entwined with their struggle for self-determination. This article seeks to demonstrate how these actions are configured in multiple ways, as in the case of the Lumad of Mindanao, who, like other indigenous groups worldwide, are engaged in the struggle for national liberation. An elaboration of the Lumad-Manobo’s notions of sacred spaces and myths is presented. This includes the production and reproduction of sustenance, resource use, and political mobilization. This article also seeks to trace the movements and modalities of value as an aspiration among displaced Lumad children and the more concrete forms of labor involved in producing these values in indigenous knowledge of sacred spaces.

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The Wealth of (Some) Nations

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Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: Towards equal exchange and the end of population

Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: Towards equal exchange and the end of population

Ordinary entrepreneurial psychosis

Modalities of the Sacred in the Lumad Struggle for Sustainabilities and Futures

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