Rethinking the (Wool) Economy

Smith, Tone; Ehrnström-Fuentes, Maria; Hagolani-Albov, Sophia; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Tobiasson, Tone Skårdal

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-88300-3_6

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“…Given the contestations and debates outlined in the narrative literature reviews above, there is no guarantee that localism or reshoring leads to greater sustainability or social equity. Indeed, there are already signs thatunder capitalist and growth-oriented structuresexploitation of people and nature may simply be regionalised, as supply chains shorten (Ciravegna and Michailova, 2022;Smith et al, 2022). Reshoring and local production are still primarily framed along capitalist logics (Barbieri et al, 2018;McIvor and Bals, 2021), rather than being built around diverse local ethics (Dartnell and Kish, 2021;Gibson-Graham et al, 2013;Klepp et al, 2022;Smith et al, 2022).…”

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“…Indeed, there are already signs thatunder capitalist and growth-oriented structuresexploitation of people and nature may simply be regionalised, as supply chains shorten (Ciravegna and Michailova, 2022;Smith et al, 2022). Reshoring and local production are still primarily framed along capitalist logics (Barbieri et al, 2018;McIvor and Bals, 2021), rather than being built around diverse local ethics (Dartnell and Kish, 2021;Gibson-Graham et al, 2013;Klepp et al, 2022;Smith et al, 2022). Indeed, as Mocca (2020: 89) notes, 'discourses of local development are often driven by the logic of economic growth'.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, alternatives have been proposed. APNs – while marginal in practice – continue to emerge and displace the prevailing neoliberal common-sense (Smith et al, 2022; Smith, 2023). Heterodox production movements of both the past and present show such alternatives in action, whether the Alternative Production movement of the 1970s (perhaps most prominently remembered through the Lucas Plan for alternative production, developed through a participatory process by workers at Lucas Aerospace; see Cooley, 2016; Tuckman, 2012) or the Mondragon co-operative group today (Bretos et al, 2020).…”

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“…Open Localism (OL) is a stream of thought most closely associated with degrowth or post-growth research and activism. OL shares with HL a keen interest in ‘collective sufficiency’ (Krähmer, 2022: 19) (Nelson, 2022), as well as in the particularities of place as ‘an agentic force that shapes the creation of economic systems, cultures, environments and the daily lives of people’ (Smith et al, 2022: 149). Within this framework, a ‘proximity economy’ of regenerative local production, oriented to real social need, is to be gradually (re)built, after long-standing decimation by global logics of commodification and growth (Saave and Muraca, 2021).…”

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Mapping complexity in deglobalisation: A typology of economic localisms from ‘hyper-localism’ to ‘strategic autonomy’

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2023

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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In recent years, scholarly attention has turned to the fracturing of global supply chains and the costs and benefits of reorienting economies to the local scale. While its real extent is debated, the term ‘deglobalisation’ has been broadly used to refer to this break from the expansionist neoliberal common-sense of previous decades. This paper conducts narrative reviews of six approaches which have emerged in this context: Hyper-localism, Open Localism, Cosmo-localism, Foundational Economy, Developmental Nationalism and Strategic Autonomy. It examines these emerging proposals for more local production, consumption and trade, and hints at relevant research directions for the uncertain era ahead. Its conceptual contribution shows that we are now faced with complex and differing processes of (de)globalisation – sometimes overlapping and sometimes competing. Grounded in a post-growth perspective, the paper concludes with an invitation for dialogue and future research around local production where capitalist political economy and organisation are not taken for granted.

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Mapping complexity in deglobalisation: A typology of economic localisms from ‘hyper-localism’ to ‘strategic autonomy’

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2023

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“…Wool products might "replace" plastics also as a material linked to other business models. Utilization of local wool is often done through local cooperation and better utilization of low-volume raw materials [108]. More collaboration and more direct interactions are both premises and results of a transition to using underutilized wool.…”

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Reducing Plastic in Consumer Goods: Opportunities for Coarser Wool

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Production and use of plastic products have drastically increased during the past decades and their environmental impacts are increasingly spotlighted. At the same time, coarse wool, a by-product of meat and dairy production, goes largely unexploited in the EU. This paper asks why more coarse wool is not used in consumer goods, such as acoustic and sound-absorbing products, garden products, and sanitary products. This is answered through a SWOT analysis of results from a desktop study and interviews with producers of these products made from wool, as well as policy documents relating to wool, waste, textiles, and plastic. Findings show that on a product level, the many inherent properties of wool create opportunities for product development and sustainability improvements and that using the coarser wool represents an opportunity for replacing plastics in many applications as well as for innovation. This is, however, dependent on local infrastructure and small-scale enterprises, but as such, it creates opportunities for local value chains, value creation, and safeguarding of local heritage. The shift to small-scale and local resource utilization requires systemic change on several levels: Here the findings show that policy can incentivize material usage transitions, but that these tools are little employed currently.

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