Updating Karl Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ for critical agrarian studies

McMichael, Philip

doi:10.1080/03066150.2023.2219978

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“…Donations from supporters of the protest augmented decommodified food supplies. Among other things, the indigenous protest indicates the importance of the decommodification-production nexus, with plural forms of small-scale agriculture not solely geared towards markets supporting a mobilisation that attempted to push beyond neoliberal capitalism (see McMichael, 2023).…”

Section: (De) Commodifying Land During the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A defining feature of neoliberal capitalism, the corporate food regime is structured to support the accumulation of capital through the delivery of cheap food, especially in the capitalist core. The regime is underpinned by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which institutionalises agricultural liberalisation through trade rules and agreements, and is supported by a cast of national and international agencies, including the IMF and World Bank, which promote and enforce liberalisation, especially in the periphery (Holt Gimenez and Shattuck, 2011; McMichael, 2023). Deepening land commodification in multiple domains, including land, food, seeds, and water, the regime centres on supplying food through capitalist markets at prices that are ‘strikingly divorced from cost’ (McMichael, 2005: 271).…”

Section: (De) Commodifying Land During the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The (de) commodification of land and labour -or, more precisely, labour power -intersect in multiple ways. I draw on the corporate food regime literature to better understand these linkages and similarities and differences between Britain and Ecuador (see McMichael, 2005McMichael, , 2009McMichael, , 2023.…”

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Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery

Goodwin

2024

Environ Plan A

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The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed significant variation in the scale and form of decommodification across the capitalist world economy. To explore these uneven decommodification geographies this article develops a new conceptual framework that combines a critical Polanyian reading of decommodification with Latin American insights into centre-periphery structures and relations. The decommodification of land and labour in Britain (centre) and Ecuador (periphery) are then analysed from this conceptual perspective. The comparative analysis reveals significant variation in the scale and form of decommodification between the two countries during the pandemic. However, some important similarities are also observed, especially in relation to the (de) commodification of land. Here, the article draws on the corporate food regime literature to better understand similarities and differences between Britain and Ecuador. By revealing the uneven and shifting terrain of decommodification, this article makes a novel contribution to wider debates about the capitalist conjuncture and the intensifying crises of neoliberal capitalism.

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Section: (De) Commodifying Land During the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%