Solidarity as a development performance and practice in coffee exchanges

Naylor, Lindsay

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“…Post-development studies focused initially on the deconstruction of both the dominant and the alternatives of development discourses, moving on to studying alternatives to development imagined––and sometimes enacted and materialized––by social movements, peasant organizations or indigenous peoples as forms of resistance to the extractivist, neocolonial and patriarchal project of modern capitalism (Franzen 2022 , this issue; Gudynas 2012 ; Piccardi and Barca 2022 , this issue; Svampa 2012 ). The current debate in Latin America and other regions of the world is focused on post-development and its articulation with the study of different alternatives to development as pluriversal paths; for example, projects such as post-extractivism, post-growth, post-patriarchy, post-colonialism, or transmodernity (Escobar 2012 ; Kaul et al 2022 , this issue; Naylor 2022 , this issue). These alternatives are closely related to the radical critiques of many indigenous societies as they are not embedded in the ideology of progress and transcend the Western development project, thus having the potential of relational transformations toward communal autonomy and ethics beyond market exchange (Demaria and Kothari 2017 ; Gudynas 2018 ; Loh and Shear 2022 , this issue).…”

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Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Maldonado-Villalpando

Paneque-Gálvez

Demaria

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The social and environmental failure of successive Western development models imposed on the global South has led local communities to pursue alternatives to development. Such alternatives seek radical societal transformations that require the production of new knowledge, practices, technologies, and institutions that are effective to achieve more just and sustainable societies. We may think of such a production as innovation driven by social movements, organizations, collectives, indigenous peoples, and local communities. Innovation that is driven by such grassroots groups has been theorized in the academic literature as “grassroots innovation”. However, research on alternatives to development has rarely examined innovation using grassroots innovation as an analytical framework. Here, we assess how grassroots innovation may contribute to building alternatives to development using Zapatismo in Chiapas (Mexico) as a case study. We focus on grassroots innovation in autonomous Zapatista education because this alternative to formal education plays a vital role in knowledge generation and the production of new social practices within Zapatista communities, which underpin the radical societal transformation being built by Zapatismo. We reviewed the academic literature on grassroots innovation as well as gray literature and audiovisual media on Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education. We also conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a Zapatista community and its school. We found innovative educational, pedagogical, and teaching–learning practices based on the (re)production of knowledge and learning, which are not limited to the classroom but linked to all the activities of Zapatistas. Our findings suggest that innovation self-realized by Zapatistas plays a key role on the everyday construction of Zapatismo. Therefore, we argue that a specific theoretical framework of grassroots innovation for the pluriverse, based on empirical work carried out in different alternatives to development, is an urgent task that will contribute to a better understanding of how such alternatives grassroots groups imagine, design, and build, particularly across the global South.

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Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Maldonado-Villalpando

Paneque-Gálvez

Demaria

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“…Across all three alternatives, the shared stewardship of the commons and communal relations play a significant role. These alternative embodied social relations are rooted in all three examples in the rejection of an economic logic perpetuating capitalism through 'development' and, to varying degrees, in morethan-capitalist spaces, 'operating within, outside and alongside capitalism in a more nuanced view' (Naylor 2022).…”

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The many faces of Post-Development: alternatives to development in Tanzania, Iran and Haiti

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Post-Development, a body of transitional imaginaries, is not homogenous, neither in its critique, nor in the alternatives proposed. Given that the term ‘development’ is already highly contentious, the question of what ‘alternatives to development’ might be, becomes difficult to respond to. In this article, we argue that Post-Development can assume many faces that are highly dependent upon their conceptual and geographical contexts. In analysing practices of resistance, contestation and subversion in Tanzania, Iran and Haiti we investigate in what ways various forms of peasant and community organising can be considered transformative and non-hegemonic. In exploring their common ground, we attempt to examine in what ways strategies of reciprocity, solidarity and commoning in different geographical locations and contexts can be understood as means of survival and/or as efforts to provide alternative pathways for societal and economic transformation.

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“…Building a democratic solidarity economy is about nurturing and taking care of people and other beings. Solidarity is a form of practice (Loh and Shear 2022;Naylor 2022).…”

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Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination

Cabaña

Linares²

2022

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As a reflection of our politically engaged research, this paper addresses the multiple challenges of transforming money for the emergence of the Pluriverse, arguing that practical efforts of emancipation and autonomy need to dismantle the colonial nature of our current monetary system: the flip side of the colonial state. On the one hand, we look into Chiloé, a territory marked by long-term relations of colonialism, dependency and extraction, where the arrival of monetised forms of work in extractive industries has meant the destruction of former ways of inhabiting the territory. On the other, we explore the emergence of the Circles project, in Berlin, that aims at creating a basic income from the bottom-up, whereby people in different communities issue money equally and exchange with each other without the need for state cash. More than assuming that money in itself is 'bad', we suggest that a recovery of the social and ecological fabric of life could be done through local money systems, designed and managed by the communities themselves, delivered and redistributed as a basic income. Moving to a plural monetary system based on relations of care would lead to a recovery of history as a project of collective self-determination.

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Solidarity as a development performance and practice in coffee exchanges

Cited by 6 publications

References 63 publications

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

The many faces of Post-Development: alternatives to development in Tanzania, Iran and Haiti

Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination

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