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Agartan, Kaan. "Moving beyond capitalism." Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work 30, no. 1 (September 25, 2019): 97–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2019.1670988.
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Waitzkin, Howard. "Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health." International Journal of Health Services 50, no. 4 (May 5, 2020): 458–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020731420922827.
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Deepening crises now affect not only the capitalist health system in the United States, but also the national health programs of countries that have achieved universal access to services. In our recent collaborative book, Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, we analyze these changing structural conditions and argue that the struggle toward viable national health programs now must become part of a struggle to move beyond capitalism. Privatization, cutbacks in public-sector services and institutions, and public subsidization of private profit-making through transfer of tax revenues into private insurance corporations have worsened under neoliberal policies. Financialization of capitalist economies includes the increasingly oligopolistic and financialized character of health insurance, both public and private. Those struggling for just and accessible health systems now need to confront the shifting social class position of health professionals. Due to loss of control over the work process and a reduced ability to generate high incomes compared to other professional workers, the medical profession has become proletarianized. To achieve national health programs that will remain viable over a long term, a much more fundamental transformation needs to reshape not just health care, but also the capitalist state and capitalist society.
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Brown, Raven E. "Book Review: Moving Beyond Capitalism." Review of Radical Political Economics 51, no. 2 (September 10, 2018): 342–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613418782776.
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Campbell, Al. "Moving Beyond Capitalism: Human Development and Protagonistic Planned Socialism." Science & Society 86, no. 2 (April 2022): 182–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.182.
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Major transformations of existing social orders require a broad belief: it is possible to build a viable alternative that addresses the major problems of the existing society. Social discussions involving a multitude of “mid-level concrete” models, or “previsions,” of such a viable alternative combine with the existing social discontent to create such social beliefs. The broad concept of “socialism” designates an organization of society and its production that does not involve some group of people living off their appropriation of part of the production of the rest of society. This paper presents some of the elements of a prefigurative conceptualization called Protagonistic Planned Socialism, which belongs to the Democratic Planned Socialism family of models. Its central elements are protagonistic collective self-determination of the operation of all the institutions of society by its members, consciously socially planned social production, and social labor processes that support and promote human development.
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Arnold, Colin. "Regrounding Populism: Moving Beyond Questions of Definition and Content." Journal of World-Systems Research 24, no. 2 (August 14, 2018): 337–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2018.867.
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While conventional studies of electoral populism acknowledge that such mobilizations are linked tosignificant economic crises, their preoccupation with defining what exactly populism is often leads them to downplay the unified structural roots of different sorts of populistmobilizations. Thisessaypresents the beginnings of an alternative framework for the study of electoral populism that draws on the neo-Gramscian theory of political articulation that links studies of global economic crises with conventional theories of populism.While crisesare an endemic feature of global capitalism, their political manifestation is shaped bythe variedinstitutional structures and legacies in which they are translated.
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Perlstadt, Harry. "Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health." Social Forces 98, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz099.
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Zanoni, Patrizia. "Prefiguring alternatives through the articulation of post- and anti-capitalistic politics: An introduction to three additional papers and a reflection." Organization 27, no. 1 (January 2020): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419894699.
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In this introduction to the second part of the special issue on alternative economies published in Organization in 2017, I first briefly chart key fora where the debate has continued in the last two years, and then present the three additional contributions included here. Moving the conversation forward, I argue that, in order to evaluate the prefigurative potential of alternative organizations, we need to address more thoroughly the relation between alternatives and their outside. A productive place to ground this reflection is in the debate between post-capitalism and anti-capitalism. The main lines of this debate are reconstructed based on the keynote speeches delivered by Jodi Dean and Stephen Healy at the last Rethinking Marxism conference held in Amherst, Massachusetts, in September 2013. I conclude by claiming that post-capitalist immanence should be articulated with an anti-capitalist communist horizon, and advance the Open Marxist notion of de-mediation of social relations as key to do this. Although capitalist institutions (e.g. the market, the state) mediate all social relations, mediation is never definitive, as it always contains the possibility for its own negation, de-mediation. So conceived, de-mediation redefines our understanding of class struggle beyond the capital-labor relation in the workplace, into society as a whole, broadening the ethical and political scope of the organizational research agenda on alternatives to capitalism.
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Osburg, John. "Global Capitalisms in Asia: Beyond State and Market in China." Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 4 (September 24, 2013): 813–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911813001629.
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After more than thirty years of economic reforms, China appears to have settled into a form of state capitalism that is likely to endure as long as the Communist Party retains power. This essay provides a critical overview of some of the key features and contradictions that characterize this particular form of capitalism and reviews some recent influential critiques of this system. Many observers have viewed the resurgence of the state-controlled economy as a shift away from policies more hospitable to both indigenous entrepreneurs and foreign capital in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on the author's own research with entrepreneurs in China, however, this essay argues for the importance of moving beyond the dichotomy of the controlling state and the free market.
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MacEwan, Arthur. "Book Review: Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health." Review of Radical Political Economics 52, no. 1 (September 13, 2019): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613419854817.
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Barredo-Zuriarrain, Juan, Jon Las Heras Cuenca, and Carlos Rodriguez González. "Post-Keynesian Financialised growth models as an alternative to Varieties of Capitalism: (in)stability, institutions and taxonomic method." Revista de Economía Mundial, no. 65 (December 28, 2023): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33776/rem.vi65.7722.
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This article evaluates the potential of the Post-Keynesian literature on growth models to gain influence over the Varieties of Capitalism approach within Comparative Political Economy. It shows that the future analytical strength of the latter approach depends, primarily, on the ability to consolidate macroeconomic principles consistent with a dynamic reality. On the other hand, Post-Keynesian macroeconomic foundations allow financialised growth models to capture the importance of power struggles in long-term growth as well as to integrate crises as recurrent and inherent phenomena to capitalist economies. That said, Post-Keynesian challenge to become a beacon within CPE lies on moving beyond country-based analyses towards the construction of a systematic association between, on the one hand, the institutional aspects shared between countries and, on the other hand, their classification on growth models.
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Valle, Gabriel R. "Gardens of Sabotage." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 40, no. 1 (2015): 63–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/azt.2015.40.1.63.
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This essay explores the self-valorization of work in the context of community gardens to further the discussion toward a grounded theory of time and value, something that has been lacking within Chicana/o studies. Urban community gardens are pivotal to the environmental justice movement, and Chicana/os are playing a central role. This essay begins the process toward a reconceptualization of work, time, nature, food, and the body. It proposes a revolutionary logic of labor as realized through the reframing of time and value that seeks to reconnect community gardeners to the means of their own production and reproduction. Transcending capitalist logic and moving beyond the dialectic of productive and unproductive labor, community gardeners have the potential to transform estranged labor into affirmative labor. By creating gardens of sabotage, communities challenge capitalism by reclaiming the value of work and confronting orthodox notions of economy, work, citizenship, community, and time.
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Mestrum, Francine. "Needed: A New International for a Just Transition and Against Fascism." Journal of World-Systems Research 25, no. 2 (September 3, 2019): 329–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.952.
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Mestrum draws from her extensive experience in the World Social Forum process to outline some of the reasons for past failures of left struggles to come together around the kind of fifth Internationale Amin proposes. A new Internationale, she argues “will require some serious and honest self-criticism and a downright rejection of all romanticism and naive utopianism…. we have to look for solutions beyond the easy slogans and assumptions.” Mestrum identifies important structural and ideological rifts in the global left. She is also wary of localized movements such as those advocated by Sklair, fearing that they could detract from the left’s ability to coalesce around a strong structural critique of globalized capitalism. What she sees as essential is the construction of “alter-globalist” identities and solidarity across issues and borders. This will require moving beyond abstract “anti-capitalist” ideology to build inter-connected campaigns that tackle the complex inter-connections among movement struggles. While cautioning against slogans, she sees lasting wisdom in Enlightenment principles of freedom, equality, and solidarity and modernity’s respect for universalism and diversity. These can help advance a politics of system change that is “emancipatory and transformative, geared towards the full realisation of individual and collective human rights for all.”
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Loskutov, Yu V. "Postcapitalist Projects: Ontology vs. Ideology." Discourse 9, no. 1 (February 27, 2023): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2023-9-1-18-28.
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Introduction. The crisis of capitalist social formation determines the relevance of projecting the post-capitalist society. The article reveals the advantage of socio-ontological approach over ideological approach to this projecting. At the same time the new problem of sociocultural conceptualization of post-capitalist reality in the language of capitalist culture is raised.Methodology and sources. The problem of postcapitalist inter-formation transition was originated within Marxism, and it can only be solved by means of its socio-philosophical selfcritique. The leaders of such self-criticism on the issue of the ideological expression of postcapitalist projects are A.A. Koryakovtsev, S.V. Viskunov, P.N. Kondrashov, D.A. Davydov, I. Yakhot and J. Holloway. Any scientific socio-ontological analysis of the current interformational transition relies on generalized empirical data from special sciences and social-historical practice.Results and discussion. The postcapitalist agenda corresponds to the principle of metapolitics, potentially allowing us to transcend the influence of the wide range of ideologies used by capital to protect itself. In principle, no ideology can precisely point the way for the post-capitalist transformation of society, since social being is always more substantive and more unpredictable than social consciousness. Ultimately, the new is an objective process and the result of life itself, not the violence of human thought over life. What in the spiritual realm is truly capable of moving beyond capitalism must seem, at the very least, strange to those people whom capitalism has shaped. And the most important of post-capitalist ideas should not be conceptualized in the language of capitalist culture at all. The objective content of the driving forces of social development is conceptualized in Marxist social ontology by means of the concept of “productive forces”. The most important of the productive forces is human being. Social formation is a special way of organization of person's essential forces, and therefore the inter-formation transition has an anthropological nature. The development of labor up to the state of universal labor and formation of other essential forces leads to the decomposition of capitalism.Conclusion. A condition of social success of post-capitalist projects is the change of ideological motivation into an ontological motivation – all current social problems should be reconsidered “from the perspective” of the development of productive forces.
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Silva, Dagmar De mello, and Larissa Príncipe. "um menino no mundo." childhood & philosophy 15 (April 29, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2019.37912.
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This paper is the result of encounters with cinema in a course entitled Cultural Activities, a required class in the undergraduate education program of the School of Education at Brazil’s Fluminense Federal University. The goal was to produce aesthetic experiences with the moving images of cinematic language that would go beyond the usual didactic and utilitarian ways of exemplifying course content. We counted on the power of moving images to produce affective images, an aesthetic device that drives the relation between thought and language, thereby contributing to a pause in time, thereby allowing us the opportunity to examine more carefully the existential human condition as historically constituted in the world today. This paper was thus the result of using cinema as a tool of social analysis and a methodological resource for the training of undergraduate education students. The cinematic artifact presented here is an animated feature whose story unfolds through the eyes of a child confronting a world tainted by the misfortunes of capitalism. For theoretical support, we focus on authors who analyze the capitalist political and socioeconomic model and its effects on the human condition. Through O menino e o mundo, a student and teacher share their different, but nonetheless powerful, ideas about the field of education, work, and the consumerism and alienation that result from current modes of production. It is particularly important to emphasize that the paper itself is a byproduct of the methodological approach of the course.
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Butt, Waqas H. "Beyond the Abject: Caste and the Organization of Work in Pakistan's Waste Economy." International Labor and Working-Class History 95 (2019): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547919000061.
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AbstractThis article examines the historical processes by which low or non-caste groups have situated themselves in Pakistan's waste economy. Adopting caste as a category of governance, the colonial regime implemented policies and interventions that not only impacted these groups in the Punjab, but also cemented enduring connections between caste, waste work, and governance, which have subsequently shaped the trajectories of waste work in cities like Lahore. Moving beyond the framework of the “abject,” this article emphasizes caste as a historical category through which social stratification and exclusions have materialized across South Asia, and examines how low or non-caste groups have organized themselves in Pakistan's waste economy, which has resulted from rapid urbanization, bureaucratization and informalization, regional labor migration, consumptive economies, urban development, and sociopolitical relations. Rather than inhabiting the abjectness of capitalism, modernity, or caste hierarchy, this article argues that these groups have carved out a space for themselves and their wider social relations in cities like Lahore in Pakistan, where social inequalities and stratification are undeniable facets of urban life.
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Brown, Will. "The essay and psychogeography: Negotiating Marxism in the essays of Iain Sinclair and Will Self." Art & the Public Sphere 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/aps_00007_1.
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Abstract In their essays for the London Review of Books (LRB), Iain Sinclair and Will Self draw on two legacies in particular ‐ that of the essays of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, and that of Psychogeography and the work of the Situationist International. This article reviews a selection of these LRB essays ‐ appearing between 2002 and 2015. It traces and analyses a dialectical tension within them ‐ inherited from Benjamin and Adorno ‐ as to the commensurability of 'the essayistic' with the delivery of serious, effective Marxist criticism; whether (as Self himself says, noting an analogous tension in the films of Patrick Keiller) they are to see their own work 'as part of a strategy of resistance to the spatial forms of late capitalism, or only as incorporations of the everyday into a bourgeois calculus of the arty-factual'. It is argued that this tension is itself not only characteristic of, but in some way fundamental to their work and its impetus, concluding with a consideration of how the essay form might offer a means of moving beyond ideology (which is the constraint of both capitalism and Marxism alike) ‐ to find a literary analogue to, and vehicle for, the imaginative spatial possibilities and practices that the psychogeographic legacy represents.
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Mol, Arthur P. J. "Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy." Global Environmental Politics 2, no. 2 (May 1, 2002): 92–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/15263800260047844.
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This paper explores what an ecological modernization perspective has to offer in an era marked by globalization. Globalization processes and dynamics are mostly seen as detrimental to the environment. The point that an ecological modernization perspective puts on the research agenda is that, although global capitalism has not been beaten and continues to show its devastating environmental effects in all corners of the world, we are moving beyond the era of a global treadmill of production that only further degrades the environment. More or less powerful, reflexive, countervailing powers are beginning to move towards environmental reform. And these powers are no longer limited to a small environmental movement that only reacts to the constant undermining of society's sustenance base. In analyzing these countervailing forces, the paper also explores the consequences of globalization processes for ecological modernization ideas and perspectives.
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Barnes, Lucy, Peter A. Hall, and Rosemary C. R. Taylor. "The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: A Cross-National Perspective." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 9 (January 2023): 237802312311748. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23780231231174832.
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This article investigates how macro-level structures condition the sources of socioeconomic inequalities in health. Drawing on multiple social science disciplines, the authors develop theoretically grounded propositions about how different types of welfare states, varieties of capitalism, and social structures give rise to cross-national variations in the sources of health inequalities. They consider how these macro-level structures affect the distribution of five key resources important to health, estimate the relative contribution that each resource makes to health inequalities, and compare those contributions in 21 developed democracies. Moving beyond a current literature focused on welfare states, the authors show how different types of political economies and social structures also condition the health gradient. This research carries implications for policy and suggests agendas for further investigation into the relationship between macro-level structures and inequalities in health.
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Mezzadra, Sandro, and Verónica Gago. "In the wake of the plebeian revolt: Social movements, ‘progressive’ governments, and the politics of autonomy in Latin America." Anthropological Theory 17, no. 4 (December 2017): 474–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499617735257.
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The article takes the debates surrounding the ‘politics of autonomy’ in Latin America as its point of departure and investigates the transformations of the political notion of autonomy against the background of developments that have characterized the so-called long decade of the new ‘progressive governments’ in the region. Moving beyond the alternative between ‘conflict’ and ‘cooptation’ that has shaped academic and political debates on the topic, the authors analyze the relations between ‘social movements’ and ‘progressive governments’ from the angle of the transformations of capitalism in Latin America and of emerging new forms of activism rooted within everyday life (particularly within ‘popular economies”). The article critically discusses such notions as neoliberalism and neo-extractivism in order to build an analytical framework within which to reconstruct the history of Latin American social movements since the early 2000s and to test the productivity and the limits of the very notion of ‘social movement’ in the present political conjuncture.
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LAMB, PETER. "Harold Laski (1893–1950): political theorist of a world in crisis." Review of International Studies 25, no. 2 (April 1999): 329–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210599003290.
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Harold Laski was a writer who exercised enormous influence in the turbulent environment of the early to mid-twentieth century. Though normally regarded as a political theorist, Laski frequently wrote on the problems of international politics. Certainly, his work was fully engaged with world issues in the inter-war and post-war periods. Like many critical and idealist thinkers of the time, he initially hoped that the League of Nations would usher in a new, international democratic system. However his early hopes gave way to a more pessimistic (and more radical) perspective, and from the late 1920s onwards he believed that the only way of transcending the existing system of sovereign states was by moving beyond capitalism. Combining a critique of both the Westphalian system and the market which he assumed underpinned it, Laski raised major questions – relevant to his own times and to ours too. Mainly ignored since his death, it is perhaps time that the work of this unduly neglected figure should be revisited.
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Sidhu, Ravinder. "Building a Global Schoolhouse: International Education in Singapore." Australian Journal of Education 49, no. 1 (April 2005): 46–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494410504900103.
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This paper takes Singapore and the field of international education as focal points for exploring state-market relations under conditions of globalisation. It examines Singapore's ambitions to become an ‘education hub’ and a provider of international education through the Global Schoolhouse Project. Using an analytical approach from the governmentality school, the paper explores the types of hybrid formations and cosmopolitanism sensibilities arising from both the production and consumption of international education. These cosmopolitanisms and hybridities are read against the geopolitical rationalities that have shaped the Singaporean nation-state. An argument is made for further empirical work into understanding how notions of hybridity are deployed in governance under conditions of globalisation. The Global Schoolhouse Project illustrates the creative and imaginative ways in which the Singaporean nation-state is re-modelling itself in response to the new iterations of global capitalism. The paper highlights the importance of moving beyond zero-sum thinking about the effect of globalisation on the nation-state.
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Cederström, Carl, and Michael Marinetto. "Corporate social responsibility á la the liberal communist." Organization 20, no. 3 (April 17, 2013): 416–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508413478311.
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This article explores the ‘liberal communist’, a conceptual and satirical figure originally elaborated in the work of Slavoj Žižek (2008). The liberal communist claims (1) that there is no opposition between capitalism and the social good; (2) that all problems are of a practical nature, and hence best solved by corporate engagement and (3) that hierarchies, authority and centralized bureaucracies should be replaced by dynamic structures, a nomadic lifestyle and a flexible spirit. This analysis of the liberal communist has at least two implications for research on CSR. First, it examines the ideological role of CSR by moving beyond a propaganda view, instead offering an ideological reading that focuses on the ways in which CSR seeks to obliterate any existing contradictions between ‘philanthropic actions’ on the one hand and ‘profit-seeking business activities’ on the other hand. Second, it demonstrates how critique is not necessarily what corporations seek to avoid, but something that they actively engage in.
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van de Pas, Remco. "Global Health in the Anthropocene: Moving Beyond Resilience and Capitalism Comment on "Health Promotion in an Age of Normative Equity and Rampant Inequality"." International Journal of Health Policy and Management 6, no. 8 (December 24, 2016): 481–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2016.151.
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Naylor, Lindsay. "Fair trade coffee exchanges and community economies." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50, no. 5 (April 9, 2018): 1027–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18768287.
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Despite the shortened commodity chain created for coffee through fair trade, there still exist a number of actors within certified commodity exchange. This chain is populated by disproportionately engaged actors, from a consumer looking for the certification seal, to coffee roasters working directly with coffee producing cooperatives, to producers striving to keep up with the standards for certification. Despite such disparities, connections are made between the roasters and the growers of coffee at multiple sites, from community-based projects to the transfer of knowledge and storytelling beyond the communities where coffee is cultivated. These connections suggest that fair trade exchanges potentially go beyond the sale of a commodity, the creation of surplus value and the connecting of producer and consumer. In this paper, I draw on the expanding literature on diverse and community economies to examine fair trade exchanges. The heterogeneous space of the community economy provides a platform for considering the diversity of exchanges happening within, outside, and alongside capitalism. In this paper, I focus on fair trade certified coffee, moving beyond current explanations of fair trade as “alternative” and working toward a multiplying of our understanding(s) of what fair trade is. Utilizing data collected in Chiapas, Mexico with two coffee producing cooperatives and their U.S.-based partner roasters, as well as analysis of the, 2016 celebration of Fair Trade Month, I reframe fair trade to examine the power and privilege in certified exchanges and consider the broader fair trade network as a site of community economies.
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Egert, Gerko. "Operational Choreography." Performance Philosophy 7, no. 1 (April 22, 2022): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21476/pp.2022.71305.
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The paper adresses dance in regard to logistical capitalism and its operational politics. Operational politics denotes the control of processes from their inside, regulated and modulated by their very own logic. Instead of subsuming processes to external regulators such as pregiven scripts, goals or acting and moving subjects, operational politics is based on the logic of process itself and its regulation via immanent techniques. In regard to movement, operational politics started to gain hold in the field of logistics in the 1960s. Over the last decades, these operational choreographies proliferated into all realms of society, creating a logistical regime that comprises modes of thinking as much as modes of existence and action. It governs the movements of economic production as much as the way we perceive, live and move. Dance – seen as a practice in which new modes of thinking, moving and acting as well as new forms of subjectivity are explored in a physical manner – became an integral part of this logistical regime: In dance, the logic of operations is exercised beyond the realm of business organization. The study of operational choreography in dance as it is proposed in the paper is therefore twofold: On the one hand, it offers an analysis of the modes of logistical power at work in performances. On the other hand, it reveals how performances investigate the logistical regime itself and its operational politics on a bodily level.
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Udoewa, Victor. "Radical Participatory Design." Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change 2, no. 2 (November 30, 2022): 59–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v2i2.3816.
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Design has been a massive failure. It has functioned in the service of industry and capitalism, leaving us a world with several crises which we are failing to resolve. The onto-epistemic framework out of which this type of design injustice emerges is coloniality, highlighting a trans-locally experienced truth: our ontologies are our epistemologies. And our onto-epistemologies are our namologies–studies, perspectives, types, or ways of designing. If we instead embody an onto-epistemic framework of relationality, our design process becomes radically participatory. Radical Participatory Design (RPD) is meta-methadology that is participatory to the root or core. Using the models “designer as community member,” “community member as designer,” and “community member as facilitator,” RPD prioritizes relational, cultural, and spiritual knowledge, as well as lived experiential knowledge, over mainstream, institutional knowledge. Based on the experiential knowledge of employing radical participatory design over many years, we have induced a characteristic definition of RPD. Through an awareness of participation, we discuss the various benefits of RPD including genuine inclusion, true human-centeredness, moving beyond human-centeredness, embedded empathy, trauma-responsive design, and systemic action. We discuss the ethics of Radical Participatory design from both an equality and equity perspective. We offer ways of evaluating the success of the radically participatory design process. Lastly, we discuss the barriers and ways we have overcome them in our projects.
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Bridges, Lauren E. "Digital failure: Unbecoming the “good” data subject through entropic, fugitive, and queer data." Big Data & Society 8, no. 1 (January 2021): 205395172097788. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951720977882.
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This paper explores the political potential of digital failure as a refusal to work in service of today’s dataveillance society. Moving beyond criticisms of flawed digital systems, this paper traces the moments of digital failure that seek to break, rather than fix, existing systems. Instead, digital failure is characterized by pesky data that sneaks through the cracks of digital capitalism and dissipates into the unproductive; it supports run-away data prone to misidentifications by digital marketers, coders, and content moderators; and it celebrates data predisposed to “back-talk” with playful irreverence toward those that seek to bring order through normative categorization and moderation. I call these data entropic, fugitive, and queer and explore their mischievous practices through three case studies: the unaccountable data in identity resolution, public shaming of the ImageNet training data, and reading practices of sex worker and influencer, @Charlieshe. Together these case studies articulate the political potential of digital failure as a process of unbecoming the good data subject by pushing past the margins of legibility, knowability, and thinkability, to reveal what is made illegible, unknowable, and unthinkable to data’s seeing eye. As predictive analytics, automated decision-systems, and artificial intelligence take on increasingly central roles in public governance, digital failure reveals how data itself is a flawed concept prone to political abuse and social engineering to protect the interests of the powerful, while keeping those marginalized over-surveilled and underrepresented.
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Dewi, Subkhani Kusuma. "The Expressions of Indonesian Muslims in Performing the ʿUmrah Pilgrimage to Mecca." Islamic Studies Review 2, no. 2 (December 29, 2023): 183–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.56529/isr.v2i2.209.
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Minor Islamic pilgrimages (ʿumrah) are increasingly being studied as part of commodified pilgrimages in the age of trade and tourism. This relatively modern construction has restricted researchers’ understandings of practices like pilgrimages to the graves of saints. This article compares two imagined Indonesian Muslim religio-cultural communities performing ʿumrah, utilizing a hybrid ethnography method to obtain data. The paper is structured in two sections. Firstly, it discusses how traditionalist Muslims understand ʿumrah as a means of maintaining the authority of the teachings of Sufi ʿulamāʾ. This group adopts the ethical principles of Sufi practices, which involve three key elements: reverence for Sufi ʿulamāʾ, observance of sacred times, and the recitation of prayers to obtain intercession (shafāʿah) and blessings in life (barākah). The second section explores how another group, guided by Muslim ethics, aligns ʿumrah journeys with the principles of capitalism within Islam. Using global and cosmopolitan Muslim perspectives, these spiritual reformers and coaches approach ʿumrah by creating practices suitable for the aspirations of the middle-class Muslims. They tailor the practice of ʿumrah, based on Islamic practices, to account for the ethical principles of self-managing individuals. This comparative presentation demonstrates diverse Muslim experiences, refraining from a homogenous expression of the ʿumrah. Ultimately, this paper advocates for more comprehensive studies of the ʿumrah pilgrimage in Indonesia, including ones that focus on nuanced expressions of pilgrims and diverse roles played by Islamic religious authorities, moving beyond simplified commercial interpretations.
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Blomson, Dean. "Thinking outside the governance box to the board of the future: Exploring “fit-for-future-purpose” governance operating models." Corporate Board role duties and composition 17, no. 2 (2021): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cbv17i2art2.
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The research aim was to explore whether the dominant style of board model used in Australia was reaching its use-by-date and if so, what more future-ready model/s or features could be considered. This paper represents original thinking and research to generate a new set of “working hypotheses”. We have followed a “grounded research” (an inductive methodology) to produce an emergent theory. We have used semi-structured and qualitative interviewing techniques. The research has generated an initial “theory” and point of view that is directional (not empirical). The focus of the study was on board operating models of the future — taking a much longer-term perspective, more specifically to identify and postulate what “fit-for-purpose” board operating models could look like in 2030 and beyond. By examining possible solutions through an operating model lens, the study has taken a system’s view of boards, going well beyond the constraints of current siloed, domain-specific research. The findings clearly point to a model that for larger and/or more complicated enterprises is under considerable strain. It is fast approaching its use-by-date, especially in the light of 1) a shift toward stakeholder capitalism and 2) the need to operate effectively in faster-moving, less predictable, and significantly more complicated environments than the existing board models were designed for. Having set the context for future governance, the recommendations focus on six elements of board operating models, board structures, key governance processes, management systems, and frameworks, e.g., board charters, technology/systems, participants and skills, and ways of working. The relevance of the paper is that at a time when directors are doubling down on what needs to be done, there is a general absence of consideration of 1) what “fit-for-purpose” governance should be and 2) whether the governance system as we know it in Australia is approaching a breaking point for some major enterprises (not all companies).
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Graz, Jean-Christophe, Oliver Kessler, and Rahel Kunz. "International Political Economy (IPE) meets International Political Sociology (IPS)." International Relations 33, no. 4 (December 2019): 586–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117819885161.
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This forum opens a debate that is long overdue: for far too long, the fields of international political sociology (IPS) and international political economy (IPE) have been standing apart. Discussions take place in different conference sections, in different networks that publish in different journals. Yet, this divide is surprising given that the two fields share similar trajectories, theoretical concerns, problématiques, and conceptual challenges. This forum starts exploring this shared terrain: we believe that there is no a priori reason to separate the sociocultural, the political and the economic when we aim at making sense of the world in any meaningful way. We propose that bridging the IPE-IPS divide has tremendous potential for the development of a socio-political economy analysis that, we believe, has two benefits. First, it allows for the opening of new empirical terrains or deepening and widening existing ones. Second, bringing IPE/S back together creates reflexive spaces for more holistic, embodied and contextualised conceptual innovation. The contributors to this forum show each in their own way such empirical and conceptual added value of moving beyond the IPE and IPS divide in order to develop what we call here a socio-political economy of the globe. They focus on various issues, such as the transformation of capitalism from an oil- to a data-dependent accumulation regime with the rising of the so-called ‘digital age’ (Chenou); the profound social, economic and political transformation triggered by urbanisation in the development world (Elias, Rethel and Tilley); emerging global risks and the neglected role of the insurance industry (Lobo-Guerrero); regional development-security nexuses (Lopez Lucia); and business power in climate change diplomacy (Moussu).
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Plantinga, Henrico, Hans Voordijk, and André Dorée. "Moving beyond one-off procurement innovation; an ambidexterity perspective." Journal of Public Procurement 20, no. 1 (November 18, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jopp-08-2019-0052.
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Purpose The development of innovative procurement instruments can be costly and risky. To capitalize on successful innovative instruments, it is essential that these are reused. However, reuse can be problematic in project-based public client organizations. This paper aims to apply the ambidexterity concept of integration mechanisms to examine how such reuse can be facilitated. Design/methodology/approach An initial framework is developed to conceptualize and contextualize the ambidexterity integration mechanism for the procurement function of a multi-project public client. Concluding that, in this situation, an organizational procedure is an appropriate interpretation of the integration mechanism, a design science project is carried out to develop and implement a procedure in a real-life setting. Findings Reconstructed reuse patterns confirm the need to have an actionable integration mechanism implemented. Integration, in the sense of drawing benefits from successful one-off innovative procurement instruments, may fail unnoticed if not organized and deliberately managed. The procedure developed in the design science project demonstrates how such integration can be achieved. Originality/value Although research on ambidexterity has grown exponentially in the past decade, it is yet to be applied in the field of public procurement. Furthermore, the application of design science research is novel in this field of literature. The paper illustrates how both can help solve a relevant organizational problem.
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El-Diwany, Tariq. "Global Trap." American Journal of Islam and Society 15, no. 1 (April 1, 1998): 149–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v15i1.2208.
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This book presents a most readable perspective on economic and social trendsin the coming century. Though retaining a European focus throughout, the materialspans the world and supports arguments that are of relevance to individualsin whichever continent they may live. The authors describe an incessant marchtoward globalization in finance and industry, a march that is forcing politicalchange upon a Europe that is simply unprepared, a march toward the GlobalTrap.Opening the book, the reader finds himself in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel,an oasis of luxury in a desert of mere wealth, where the world’s leading thinkersand elder statesmen have gathered to discuss the future of our planet for anappropriate fee. A most plausible economic horror story follows. In the not-toodistantfuture, machines will replace humans in so many spheres of industry thatthere will be sufficient work for only 20 percent of the developed world’s population.In this 2080 society the 20 percent shall surround themselves with electronicsecurity and wire fences and the 80 percent will be doped with welfarepayments, trivial game shows, and other such “tittytainment.” Amusing catchphrasesspice Global Trap, trivializing yet somehow succeeding in summarizinga whole worldview. One immediately recognizes “MacWorld versus Jihad”as the much predicted confrontation between free market capitalism and Islam.The authors’ main concerns are expounded in a serious manner. They discussthe nature of the massive modem conglomerate whose control lies beyond thereach of national government. Moving their production to the least expensivelocations, these seemingly anonymous entities by default produce their wares inthose countries where environmental protection and employee rights are at aminimum. In another discussion, one’s attention is turned to the speculatorwhose activity impacts upon so many significant areas of modem life.Much attention is paid to the rapidly widening gap between the rich world andthe poor world, a gap which threatens the survival of both. In a sobering portrayalof one possible European future, the barriers are raised against floods ofcheap imports and of immigrants wishing’that they too could share the livingstandards of the rich world. But the immigrant finds himself in the midst of adifferent kind of economic nightmare, a world in which life on a human scale isno longer possible or profitable. in which the individual is enslaved in mortgagedebt, works at maximum output, or, does not work at all. Feeling that they nolonger have a voice in their own destiny, the indigenous population turns towardradical political solutions, toward the protectionist, the xenophobe, and the fascistDoes any of this sound familiar? Of course, the genre of doom and gloom hasa long pedigree, but this is not intellectual pornography for those awaiting theend of the world. There is little, if any, wild extrapolation of current trends inorder to predict future despair. Instead, the authors present well-researched factto support their forecast of what might be if solutions are not found in time ...
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Chun, Jennifer Jihye. "Protesting Precarity: South Korean Workers and the Labor of Refusal." Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 1 (February 2022): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911821001479.
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AbstractThis essay examines the crisis of solidarity affecting workers who protest labor precarity under South Korea's capitalist democracy. Once considered foundational to the struggle for national democratization, the dramatic protests of aggrieved workers are frequently depicted as out of place and out of sync. Drawing upon ethnographic research on workers’ protest repertoires, this essay challenges prevailing explanations and instead argues that heightened forms of drama, ritual, and suffering in workers’ protests enact a willful politics of refusal. Moving beyond resistance as an all-encompassing frame, the labor of refusal foregrounds ways of being and becoming that are not rooted in the contractual fallacies of liberal capitalist democracy, but in the spaces of solidarity produced by social movement networks and grassroots communities of care. The labor of refusal may not always generate robust solidarity, but it challenges the structures of organized abandonment that treat workers as disposable under neoliberal capitalist rule.
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Saba, Anika. "Of Movies and Money." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 6 (December 1, 2015): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v6i.195.
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The commercial aspect of the film industry is becoming more prominent than its artistic concern in the global community. As a representation of the American film industry, the biggest film industry in the world, this paper will study the commercial aspects of the comic-based superhero movie The Avengers. Superhero movies often prove blockbuster hits and make mind-boggling amounts of money even though they have very loose plots and little artistic value besides the use of special effects. Here, I will discuss Frederic Jameson’s critique of postmodernism for promoting schlock or kitsch and for being pro-capitalist. The paper will talk about the cultural implications of these Hollywood blockbusters and the money-making processes beyond the tickets sale such as gaming, toys and other merchandise. It will argue that the film industry has become the biggest cultural industry today run by media moguls and capitalist giants in the light of Stuart Hall’s notes on popular culture. Finally, I hope to show that mainstream or popular movies make more money now because they are part of a hegemonic culture created by certain power groups.
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Lai, Karen PY. "Agency, power, and state–firm relations in global financial networks." Dialogues in Human Geography 8, no. 3 (November 2018): 285–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820618797463.
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In response to Töpfer’s incisive critique of how current work on global production networks and global financial networks (GFNs) have been too firm-centric and reliant on neoliberal market framings, this commentary highlights three key points for developing a deeper conceptualization of the state in financial processes and networks. The first addresses the role of the state and inter-firm relations, the second deals with conceptualizations of power and agency, and the third is a call to go boldly beyond authoritarian capitalist regimes in moving toward a state-led conceptualization of GFNs.
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Ulla, Bente. "Reconceptualising sleep: Relational principles inside and outside the pram." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 18, no. 4 (December 2017): 400–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463949117742781.
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This article explores sleep among kindergarten infants and toddlers. Although the collective order of sleep in kindergarten makes it a relational issue, the search here is for relations that extend beyond human actors and beyond the idea of the pram as a sleep container used by a sleeping subject. Here, sleep is seen as entangled with bodies and prams; it has a rhythm and a tempo, as well as the power to challenge the capitalist call for productivity. The article addresses sleep in terms of spatial configurations and contextualises it within a web of political relations rather than as a leftover of life. Informed by Foucault’s notions of heterotopia, the article characterises sleep as a world within a world, drawing attention to relational principles and material-discursive spaces that are characterised as ‘different’, on the understanding that sleep is not an intermission from life or relationships. Moving beyond the conceptualisation of sleep as a health and medical issue, it is reframed as embodied and embedded, enabling exploration of sleep in kindergarten as relational.
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Ferguson, Susan, Genevieve LeBaron, Angela Dimitrakaki, and Sara R. Farris. "Introduction." Historical Materialism 24, no. 2 (June 30, 2016): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-12341469.
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The 2011 Historical Materialism Conference in London saw the launch of a Marxist-Feminist set of panels. This issue is inspired by the success of those panels, and the remarkably sustained interest in reviving and moving beyond older debates and discussions. The special issue’s focus, Social-Reproduction Feminism, reflects and contextualises the ongoing work and engagement with that thematic that has threaded through the conferences in the 2010s. This Introduction provides a summary overview of the Social-Reproduction Feminism framework, situating it within Marxist-Feminist thinking and politics more generally, and calls on readers to consider its promise and potential as an historical-materialist approach to understanding capitalist social relations in terms of an integrated totality.
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Valenzuela-Fuentes, Katia, Esteban Alarcón-Barrueto, and Robinson Torres-Salinas. "From Resistance to Creation: Socio-Environmental Activism in Chile’s “Sacrifice Zones”." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 21, 2021): 3481. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063481.
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The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of socio-environmental conflicts across Chile, characterized by the resistance of local communities against extractive and industrial projects. Increasingly, these conflicts have revealed the multiple injustices experienced by communities living in sacrifice zones. A sacrifice zone can be defined as a segregated place where the quality of life of its communities is compromised in the name of progress and capital accumulation. By focusing on socio-environmental struggles taking place in Quintero-Puchuncaví Bay, Coronel Bay, and Hualpén-Talcahuano Bay, three highly polluted and industrialized areas in Chile, this article explores the views and practices developed by grassroots activists in their quest for resisting and moving beyond the capitalist and extractivist model of development. By conducting a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 32 socio-environmental activists, this qualitative study provides a detailed account of how they understand a sacrifice zone and resist in these areas. Furthermore, it describes alternatives to capitalist and extractivist development envisioned and enacted by grassroots movements, expanding on the notions of territorial sovereignty and “buen vivir”.
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Hesketh, Chris. "Passive revolution: a universal concept with geographical seats." Review of International Studies 43, no. 3 (March 7, 2017): 389–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210517000079.
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AbstractIn this article, I argue that Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution makes a foundational contribution to International Relations (IR), yet has been relatively under appreciated by the broader discipline. Within the Historical Sociology of International Relations, uneven and combined development has recently been postulated as a key trans-historical law that provides a social theory of the ‘international’. Drawing from, but moving beyond these debates, I will argue that passive revolution is a key conditioning factor of capitalist modernity. I will demonstrate how the concept of passive revolution is the element that explains the connection between the universal process of uneven development and the manner in which specific combinations occur within the capitalist era as geopolitical pressures, in tandem with domestic social forces become internalised into geographically specific state forms. It therefore offers a corrective to the frequently aspatial view that is found in much of the literature in IR regarding uneven and combined development. Additionally, passive revolution provides a more politicised understanding of the present as well as an important theoretical lesson in relation to what needs to be done to affect alternative trajectories of development.
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Mouat, Clare M., Erika Jane Edith Techera, Lies Notebaert, Meredith Blake, and Renae Barker. "(Un)earthly governance: beyond functional frameworks to flourishing spacescapes." Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 13, no. 2 (August 3, 2021): 122–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jppel-02-2021-0015.
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Purpose Humanity has a weakness in how we approach the “challenge” of using outer space. This paper aims to show how the global and national frameworks that address our planetary activities and crises are inadequate for the opportunities and challenges of life in outer space. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on multidisciplinary perspectives to refine an organising governance framework that better showcases the challenges and pathways needed for living and thriving in space-age. The authors prioritise two key pillars and overview the practical and social implications that space-age humanity must address. Findings Social sciences and humanities are vital to problematising post-war colonial legacies of governance by distinguishing the unique and overlooked challenges for thriving and working offworld and identifying progressive research agendas. Research limitations/implications The highlighted agenda has implications for collaborative research institutes and project design. As the vital basis for continuous learning, university-based research institutes span bodies of knowledge, experience, convention and imagination that can support vibrant and overdue debate on good governance that is out of this world. Practical implications This expansive approach has practical implications for the decision-making processes and subjects of spacescape, from reconciling the space commons with prospecting and human occupation to potential governance regimes that capitalise on the zeal for moving beyond merely “existing” off-world. Social implications Examining the governance deficit as we pursue developing spacescape frontiers is an enriching (not reductionist) agenda that deliberately troubles the existing and emerging regime for governing our scientific and imagined off-world society. Originality/value This framework appeals to humanity’s highest evolution in co-producing a fair and flourishing off-world governance framework (beyond replicating planetary regimes).
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Etzkowitz, Henry. "Innovation in Innovation: The Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations." Social Science Information 42, no. 3 (September 2003): 293–337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/05390184030423002.
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Innovation is increasingly based upon a “Triple Helix” of university-industry-government interactions. The increased importance of knowledge and the role of the university in incubation of technology-based firms has given it a more prominent place in the institutional firmament. The entrepreneurial university takes a proactive stance in putting knowledge to use and in broadening the input into the creation of academic knowledge. Thus it operates according to an interactive rather than a linear model of innovation. As firms raise their technological level, they move closer to an academic model, engaging in higher levels of training and in sharing of knowledge. Government acts as a public entrepreneur and venture capitalist in addition to its traditional regulatory role in setting the rules of the game. Moving beyond product development, innovation then becomes an endogenous process of “taking the role of the other”, encouraging hybridization among the institutional spheres.
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McCosker, Anthony. "Social media work: reshaping organisational communications, extracting digital value." Media International Australia 163, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 122–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x17693702.
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Social media platforms are associated with significant digital transformations but also carry some uncertainty for organisations seeking to capitalise on their affordances while developing new professional roles. This article explores the characteristics and contexts of social media work and the different approaches of organisations as they enter a second wave of application, moving beyond participation to data extraction within conditions of continuous connectivity and community management. The article uses hybrid methods: analysing job market data and in-depth interviews with 18 social media strategists and workers from 13 different organisations. The analysis is informed by critical accounts of digital labour, and emphasises organisations’ strategic search for new affordances such as analytics that extract additional value from carefully managed communities. The findings reveal how social media work has become diffused across industries, and is understood ‘ecologically’, as a capability that operates right across organisations within a dynamic and changing media environment.
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Das, Sannoy. "Fine Balance: Empire, Neoliberalism, and the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law." Journal of World Investment & Trade 24, no. 4-5 (September 25, 2023): 659–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22119000-12340306.
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Abstract In this article, I show how the framework of empire remains central for analyzing contemporary international investment law. Moving beyond criticisms about the domination of global South polities by the West, or by a transnational capitalist class, I suggest instead that ‘empire’ can help us analyze the protocols of reasoning in investor-State arbitrations. Through a close reading of scholarship on the fair and equitable (FET) clause, and a recent arbitral award arising out an FET claim, I show that the field is characterized by an imperial mode of legal reasoning. This mode was reason was produced by a foundational distrust of postcolonial developmental States. It involves judging concrete State action against a fictional universal baseline that represents the ordoliberal utopia of an austere rule of law bound State. Crucially, in investor-State dispute settlement, this form of reasoning remains discernible even when foreign investors do not succeed.
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Boateng, Festival Godwin, and Jacqueline M. Klopp. "Beyond bans: A political economy of used vehicle dependency in Africa." Journal of Transport and Land Use 15, no. 1 (October 25, 2022): 651–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2022.2202.
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African countries serve as used vehicle dumping sites for advanced capitalist countries, undermining global and local goals to move toward safe and low-emissions transport. Africa’s used vehicle dependency is commonly explained in terms of push-pull factors linked to demand for new cars and stringent environmental policies in wealthier countries that make available used vehicles for export, the limited purchasing power for less-polluting new safer vehicles, and weak regulation of vehicle emissions in Africa, all of which sustain used vehicle import on the continent. Drawing on the Ghanaian case, we present an enhanced explanation that brings in the role of historical underinvestment in public transport and larger processes that channel public resources toward car-oriented transport and land use, marginalizing other modes of transport used by the majority. Using historically informed political economy analyses and drawing on interviews and grey literature including media and institutional sources, this paper makes two contributions. First, it advances used vehicle research by moving beyond the push-pull approach to incorporate the historical institutional drivers of used vehicle and automobile consumption generally in Africa. Second, it provides insight into why used vehicle import bans on their own are unlikely to lead to sustained environmental and public health benefits and instead recommends more holistic policies for shifting toward cleaner, safer and affordable public transport in Africa. Transport and land-use planning reforms and investment prioritizing public transit including minibus recapitalization programs, as well as mixed land use and transit-oriented development can help reduce used vehicle dependency and the harms it brings.
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del Moral-Espín, Lucía, and Manuel Fernández-García. "Moving beyond dichotomies? The Collaborative Economy scene in Andalusia and the role of public actors in shaping it." Sociological Review 66, no. 2 (March 2018): 401–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118758539.
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Despite a lack of consensus around its meaning, the concept of Collaborative Economy has become popular over the last few years. At the same time, its controversial nature has triggered many debates. The concept is used to name a wide variety of very diverse experiences, from time banks and urban gardens, to global digital platforms or co-working spaces. Some authors have stated that Collaborative Economy opens the possibility for a more just and equitable society based on the logic of peer-to-peer (P2P) collaboration, while others, with a much more critical view, argue that it should be understood as capitalism’s last stand. In order to understand how these debates are transferred to a particular regional reality, this article analyses almost 140 Collaborative Economy experiences in the region of Andalusia (southern Spain) and the role of public actors as potential drivers of those initiatives. The experiences include both university-related and entrepreneurial initiatives in the region. The research is based on a mixed-method approach combining interviews, focus groups and questionnaires. The results reflect the state of Collaborative Economy in the region (geographical distribution, classification by sectors, age). They confirm the Janus face of Collaborative Economy activities, but they also reveal how some of them resist and overcome such dichotomies. The article’s final section discusses the specific characteristics of these initiatives and assesses the role of public engagement in the promotion of the regional scene.
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Garcia, Ana Saggioro. "Nonwestern Periphery and its Paradoxes: Reflections for Struggles in the 21st Century." Journal of World-Systems Research 23, no. 2 (August 11, 2017): 499–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2017.740.
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What has historically been the role of the nonwestern semiperiphery (what was it expected to do and what did it really do) and how has this role changed in recent years? In their article “Moving toward Theory for the 21st Century: The Centrality of Nonwestern Semiperiphery to World Ethnic/Racial Inequality”, Wilma Dunaway and Donald Clelland provide important contributions to the efforts to rethink global inequalities and the potential to transform the capitalist world-system. Presenting a wealth of data compiled in graphs and tables, the article aims to decenter analysis of global ethnic/racial inequality by bringing the nonwestern semiperiphery to the foreground. In their examination of the rise of the nonwestern semiperiphery, the authors question the popular “global apartheid model”, which identifies “white supremacy” as the sole cause of global ethnic/racial inequality. Their goal is to demonstrate that the nonwestern semiperiphery intensifies and exacerbates ethnic and racial inequalities in the world further by adopting political and economic mechanisms to exploit territories and workers both within and beyond their borders.
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Coburn, Elaine. "Against the Grain: Socially Just Social Science from the Standpoint of Roxana Ng (Review Essay)." Studies in Social Justice 11, no. 1 (February 8, 2017): 136–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v11i1.1329.
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This contribution seeks to highlight the important scholarship of Roxana Ng, arguably one of Canadian sociology and political economy’s most underappreciated theorists. Like her activism, Ng’s academic work is both wide-ranging yet firmly focused on major, unjust inequalities. Her research particularly concerns the Canadian capitalist political economy but inevitably, given the embeddedness of these social relations within worldwide historical relations, stretches beyond national borders. In particular, Ng sought to unpack the everyday, intertwined – exploitative and unjust – relations of class, race, and gender, and the ways these unjust relations are articulated through migration and citizenship. This contribution situates the reception and uneven uptake of Ng’s varied work before critically analysing her contributions to understanding (1) immigrant women’s labour in Canada, (2) the complex racialized, gendered relations of power in the academy, and (3) the liberatory potential of embodied epistemologies, specifically Qi Gong meditation. In the conclusions, I consider the overall contributions and some contradictions of her work, in moving from the local to the global, and from the personal to the political.
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Blum, Beth. "Polypharma Fiction." American Literary History 35, no. 3 (June 29, 2023): 1259–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad142.
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Abstract This article examines how the rise of polypharmacy changes the novel genre’s response to the pain of anxiety and its narrative interest. Necessarily focusing its scope while also registering the fluidity, complexity, and exigency of contemporary psychopharmacological experience, it focuses specifically on how anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications are activating an ongoing reassessment among contemporary novelists of ingrained assumptions regarding the centrality of mental suffering to aesthetics. The books I discuss as “polypharma fictions”—by Sheila Heti, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Anelise Chen—each challenge the idea of psychic pain as a precondition of narrative development—whether the pain of existential anxiety (Heti), capitalist aspiration (Moshfegh), or willful determination (Chen). Moving beyond the extremes of alarmism and advocacy that have largely structured scholarly responses to the rise of psychotropics, I attend to the formal significance of psychotropics for narrative temporality, tension, and plot. In this more recent fiction, the question is not whether psychotropics presage the end of the novel genre but, rather, what kind of novel it is that incorporates psychopharmaceuticals and, yet . . . goes on.
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Ekert, Jennifer L. "The Power and Vulnerability of a Dream Deferred: High-achieving Minority Adolescent Girls’ Narratives of Success." Narrative Inquiry 11, no. 2 (December 31, 2001): 257–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.11.2.02eke.
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This study chronicles the “ordinary success” of 20 highly motivated, working-class minority adolescent girls. Within achievement motivation literature, success generally has been conceived as measurable performance and studied with quantitative methods. The current study instead uses narrative inquiry to investigate success as a process. The girls in this study speak of pursuing rather than achieving success, moving towards a target beyond their line of vision. Constrained by realities of their daily lives, the girls capitalize on the openness of the future to craft narratives of assured success. Paradoxically, this approach sustains their motivation but jeopardizes their prospects, since they are invested in keeping the future at a distance. Knowledge about the requirements of success is often a “dream killer,” forcing imaginative thinking to collide with realistic planning. This research suggests that ambitious but underprivileged adolescents would benefit from targeted support to help them negotiate tensions intrinsic to their understanding and pursuit of success.
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Dashnyam, A. "Prospects for interaction between Asia-Pacifi c countries and the Russian Federation in the context of transformation of the world order." Diplomaticheskaja sluzhba (Diplomatic Service), no. 2 (April 10, 2024): 134–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/vne-01-2402-05.
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The article discusses issues of relations between the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Important and complex issues of relationships between key players are raised, both in the region and beyond. Particular attention is paid to the issue of economic development of the region, since the center of capitalist interaction is gradually moving there. At the same time, current problems associated with the new vector of cooperation between Russia and the countries of the region since the beginning of the Northern Military District are considered. Reorientation of economic directions, active interaction with such regional players as Northern Korea, China and other countries that did not put as much sanctions pressure on Russia as US satellites. Due to opportunistic changes in Western policies, new opportunities have opened up for the whole world, within the framework of weakening the hegemon and building new alliances and centers of power. At the same time, this does not make the world more predictable, but on the contrary, it has become less calm and manageable. That is why it is important to consider the role of Russia and the country’s prospects in the most dynamically developing region of the planet.