Re-embedding economies in ecologies: resilience building in more than human communities

Autor: J. K. Gibson-Graham, Lisa Law, Ann Hill
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Building Research & Information. 44:703-716
ISSN: 1466-4321
0961-3218
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2016.1213059
Popis: The modern hyper-separation of economy from ecology has severed the ties that people have with environments and species that sustain life. A first step towards strengthening resilience at a human scale involves appreciating, caring for and repairing the longstanding ecological relationships that have supported life over the millennia. The capacity to appreciate these relationships has, however, been diminished by a utilitarian positioning of natural environments by economic science. Ecologists have gone further in capturing the interdependence of economies and ecologies with the concept of socio-ecological resilience. Of concern, however, is the persistence of a vision of an economy ordered by market determinations in which there is no role for ethical negotiation between humans and with the non-human world. This paper reframes economy–ecology relations, resituating humans within ecological communities and resituating non-humans in ethical terms. It advances the idea of community economies (as opposed to ...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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