Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L.

doi:10.1080/00664677.2012.694169

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“…The 'cryptocolonial' arrangements of crisis management mentioned above (Herzfeld 2002) denote how the Greek case should be placed in line with the 'normalization' of neoliberal crises around the world (Comaroff and Comaroff 2011). Arguing that it is an 'exceptional circumstance' therefore confirms a Eurocentric bias and exoticizes the country within this paradigm.…”

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The crisis seen from below, within, and against: from solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece

Rakopoulos

2014

Dialect Anthropol

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Anthropological literature on crises and social and solidarity economies can benefit from integrated approaches that assess grassroots cooperatives formed during critical periods of capitalist recession. This article debates on why it is problematic to conceptualize the Greek crisis as exceptional and then examines the relationship between the solidarity economy and cooperatives and argues that the latter is a development of the former in the future plans of people struggling against the crisis being witnessed in Greece. It moreover makes a case for there being a need to pay more attention to the distribution sector. Its main aim is to point out how participants engaged in initiatives related to the solidarity economy tend to imagine that their activities are inspired by larger aims and claims than the immediate significance of their material actions. This is done by ethnographically analyzing organized social responses against crises through the rise of popular solidarity economies associated with distribution of food without middlemen.

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The crisis seen from below, within, and against: from solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece

Rakopoulos

2014

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“…), ayant servi de réservoir de « données brutes » (Comaroff et Comaroff 2012 : 113) pour des théorisations occidentales. Or, les Suds semblent préfigurer ce qui arrive dans tout pays en temps de récession ou de crise économique, tant dans le domaine des mouvements de population, de l'exclusion sociale, des émeutes que de la racialisation des rapports sociaux (Comaroff et Comaroff 2012). Si cette présentation peut faire croire à une division géographique du monde, il faut plutôt comprendre les Suds -ou le Global South -comme « une métaphore de la souffrance humaine causée par le capitalisme et le colonialisme à l'échelle mondiale, et de la résistance visant à la surmonter ou à l'atténuer » (Santos 2011 : 39), que ce soit au Nord, comme dans les différents Suds.…”

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Multilinguisme et hétérogénéité des pratiques langagières. Nouveaux chantiers et enjeux du Global South

Léglise¹

2017

Langage Et Société

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Multilinguisme et hétérogénéité des pratiques langagières. Nouveaux chantiers et enjeux du Global South 1Cet article présente d'abord quelques travaux récents dans l'étude du multilinguisme et de ses conséquences -linguistiques et sociales -en insistant sur des aspects méthodologiques. Il se fonde sur des exemples provenant de terrains situés dans les Suds et sur l'analyse de pratiques langagières hétérogènes qui obligent à revoir les catégories descriptives traditionnelles. Il présente ensuite des domaines -comme autant de chantiers à explorerdans lesquels les enjeux du Global South sont particulièrement criants : dans le domaine de la citoyenneté linguistique (plutôt que des droits linguistiques), dans le domaine de l'éducation plurilingue et interculturelle et dans le domaine de la santé. This paper first presents recent works in the study of multilingualism and its linguistic and social consequences, focusing on methodology. It is based on Southern case studies and heterogeneous language practices which invalidate traditional descriptive categories. It focuses then on domains with striking socio-political issues of the Global South: linguistic citizenship rather than linguistic rights, multilingual and multicultural Education and Health.

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“…There are ways in which women are instrumentalized in dominant development practices and policies that militate against radical approaches to the creation of a diverse diet, ending poverty, women's empowerment, agroecological resilience and gender transformation. We turn now to such an example, to suggest ways that the New Alliance's modernity is being contested (Comaroff and Comaroff 2011). It is a project that is in no way comparable to the scale of the New Alliance.…”

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Cook, eat, man, woman: understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, nutritionism and its alternatives from Malawi

Patel¹,

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Shumba³

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

Cited by 785 publications

References 20 publications

The crisis seen from below, within, and against: from solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece

The crisis seen from below, within, and against: from solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece

Multilinguisme et hétérogénéité des pratiques langagières. Nouveaux chantiers et enjeux du Global South

Cook, eat, man, woman: understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, nutritionism and its alternatives from Malawi

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