The commons

Angelis, Massimo De; Harvie, David

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“…Yet an implication they carry is that a politics of degrowth can only be effective to the extent that it can organize the material basis of social (re)production – for especially the potential subjects of such a politics – in ways that provide some degree of independence from the state and capital. The construction of such an economy would both pre-empt the role fulfilled by the redistribution of benefits of economic growth and empower citizen-subjects to demand and transform state–society relationships (see also De Angelis and Harvie, 2014). In that sense, enacting alternative economies, which is espoused as one among many post-growth transition strategies (e.g.…”

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The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

Akbulut

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of economic growth, however, goes beyond the economic sphere. As a societal goal, growth is often mobilized to pre-empt and/or co-opt opposition around issues of social justice and redistribution. Not only does the constitution of growth as a collective goal serve to unite the internally fragmented sphere of the social and brush aside (class-based) distributional conflicts, but it also enables the distribution of material concessions to subordinate classes for eliciting their consent. The degrowth proposal should thus more broadly tackle the material and discoursive ways in which growth enables the reproduction of contemporary political-economic systems. This paper argues that the notion of growth functions as a powerful ideal that shapes state–society relationships and social-collective imaginations. It demonstrates this by discussing the making of state in Turkey through a Gramscian perspective, where the notion of economic growth is deeply imprinted in the broader practices of the state to legitimize its existence and dominates the social imaginary in a way that cannot be easily dismissed. Against this backdrop, the possibility of not only effectuating, but also imagining and desiring degrowth would call for a radical reconfiguration of state–society relationships. Within this context, the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s project of Democratic Economy emerges as an alternative, both to the nation-state paradigm and to the imperative of economic growth.

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The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

Akbulut

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…It is realized that, carried to an extreme, the logic of the market becomes counterproductive even from the viewpoint of capitalist accumulation. (Caffentzis and Federici, 2014: 97; see also de Angelis and Harvie, 2014)…”

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Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism

Dyk

2018

Work, Employment and Society

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This article discusses new patterns of precariarization and informalization beyond waged labour. Against a backdrop of multiple social changes, there is a new era of social reproduction based on the interplay between a politics of post-waged work and a politics of community, involving activities outside the realms of market, state and family. Whereas the implications of familybased care work have long been highlighted, the community-based political economy of the 'postwage regime' has yet to be analysed. Taking Germany as an example, the article describes how the state is actively involved in promoting and exploiting post-waged work. At the same time, community projects and grassroots activities contribute to the social reproduction of livelihoods, often becoming an active part of the precarious post-wage regime. The question is raised whether or not these interweaving developments herald a new era of community capitalism.

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“…Hanlon, 2018). As De Angelis and Harvie (2014: 290) note, ‘capital’s increasing dependence on commons has not curbed its enthusiasm for continued enclosure’. The enclosure of the commons constitutes ‘one of the great untold stories of our times’ (Bollier and Helfrich, 2012: 1).…”

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The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations

Korczynski

Wittel

2020

Sociology

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One of the most important focuses in social theory within the last decade has been upon the commons. We contribute to the emerging scholarship on the commons. We point out that this literature tends to neglect the workplace. We then argue that the workplace should be included as a potentially important arena of commoning. Going to studies of the workplace, we find that scholarship has implicitly found key emergent elements of commoning within the social relations of work. We develop a concept of the workplace commons, and consider arguments that the workplace commons is merely a fix for capitalism.

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The commons

Cited by 47 publications

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The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism

The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations

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