A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach

Bayliss, Kate; Fine, Ben

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“…also [54]). This is consistent with the more comprehensive system of provision approach (SoP) [55], that denotes an interdisciplinary framework to, inter alia, identify "how resource use is impacted by a very specific system of provision in each place and time" [56] (p. 5). Therefore, "no 'optimal' System of Provision" exists and "sustainability solutions require close attention to material culture in each case" [56] (p. 5).…”

Section: Ecology and The Reframing Of Wellbeing: Provisioning For Human Needs In A Safe And Just Spacesupporting

confidence: 73%

“…Exnovating, recomposing, constraining, and ending certain forms of provisioning (e.g., combustion engines) are prerequisites to tackle the ecological crisis. Freedom of individual choice in consuming goods and services will not achieve this; only political decisions on restructuring complete provisioning systems will [55,66]. The latter is also in accordance with the FEC's [4] (p. 130) own reasoning, arguing that taking "environmental responsibility seriously" presupposes redesigning the systems that underpin social consumption.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such reasoning, however, instigates a vicious circle. It disregards key insights from SoP (e.g., [55,66]), environmental psychology (e.g., [71]), and practice theory (e.g., [72,73]), all critical of theories "in which behaviour is taken to be a matter of choice" [72] (p. 141).…”

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confidence: 99%

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This theoretical paper synthesises research on the foundational economy and its contribution to a social–ecological transformation. While foundational thinking offers rich concepts and policies to transition towards such transformation, it fails to grasp the systematic non-sustainability of capitalism. This weakness can be overcome by enriching contemporary foundational thinking with feminist and ecological economics. Whereas the feminist critique problematises foundational thinking’s focus on paid labour, the ecological critique targets Sen’s capability approach as a key inspiration of foundational thinking, arguing that a theory of human needs is better suited to conceptualise wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Based on this, we outline a novel schema of economic zones and discuss their differentiated contributions to the satisfaction of human needs. By privileging need satisfaction, such broadened foundational thinking demotes the tradable sector and rentier economy, thereby revaluating unpaid work as well as respecting ecological imperatives. This empowers new articulations of social and ecological struggles to improve living conditions in the short run, while having the potential in the long run to undermine capitalism from within.

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“…The state also has the potential to impose limits on excessive extraction and exploitation, for instance by implementing income and wealth caps (Buch-Hansen and Koch 2019). Furthermore, public authorities play a key role in shaping decommodified provision systems (Bayliss and Fine 2020;Eckersley 2021). The question remains how to practically enact such limits that lead to more durable and institutionalized forms of practices and how a democratic governance of limits can be implemented across various spatial scales (Lang and Brand 2015).…”

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From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation

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The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capitalist societies as a heuristic for discussing the expansionary dynamics, power relations, and lock-ins of modern societies that impel highly unsustainable societal relations with nature. While formulating societal boundaries implies a controversial processbased on normative judgments, ethical concerns, and socio-political strugglesit has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation. Collective autonomy and the politics of self-limitation are key elements of societal boundaries and are linked to important proposals and pluriverse experiences to integrate well-being and boundaries. The role of the state and propositions for radical alternative approaches to well-being have particular importance. We conclude with reflections on social freedom, defined as the right not to live at others' expense. Toward the aim of defining boundaries through transdisciplinary and democratic processes, we seek to open a dialogue on these issues.

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“…My own experience of food, beyond the dinner table, took off in the mid‐1990s as part of an ESRC programme studying the UK Nation's Diet leading to a study of the (eating, non‐communicable) diseases of affluence (see Bayliss & Fine, 2020, for a retrospective account in light of the modern financialized food system). Sugar, salt and fat have been profitably produced as major ingredients in food, and dietary advice to consume less has had no effect (and may even disproportionately redistribute consumption to those on lower incomes and poorer diets, less able and/or willing to change to, and afford, healthier food habits) but has intensified the psychological tensions between eating and dieting.…”

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A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach

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The Foundational Economy as a Cornerstone for a Social–Ecological Transformation

The Foundational Economy as a Cornerstone for a Social–Ecological Transformation

From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation

TimLang. Feeding Britain: Our food problems and how to fix them. London: Pelican. 2020. 608 pp. £25 (hardback). ISBN 9780241442227

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