The spatial contract

Schafran, Alex; Smith, Matthew Noah; Hall, Stephen G.

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“…The focus of the FE is thus not only the recognition and promotion of diverse economic practices, but on finding their place in the wider reconstitution of a ‘zone’ of activity that guarantees the reproduction of everyday life. This resonates with concerns raised by Schmid and Smith (2020: 4, 14) regarding the ‘tension between antagonism and imagination’ in diverse economies research, both ‘looking upwards, to omnipotent overarching systems’ but also ‘more horizontally, at everyday reproduction and practice’.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Foundational research should also heed the recent call to ‘focus on the geographies of limitation [as] a prerequisite for political practice. Knowing constraints and resistance, and ideally also the means to over-come them, is crucial for the strategic creation and enlargement of postcapitalist spaces’ (Schmid and Smith, 2020: 15). This calls for a focus on path-creation (MacKinnon et al, 2019) and comparative understandings of the multiscalar forces that both constrain and enable the emergence of alternative foundational economic practices, with a view to understanding and supporting their proliferation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development

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Emerging in the mid-2010s, the Foundational Economy has been heralded as ‘a compelling counter-project against neoliberalism’ and ‘an alternative pathway … [for] progressive political renewal’. Grounded in a review of cross-disciplinary debates, this paper introduces the concept of the Foundational Economy and places it in relation to heterodox geographic theories of socio-economic development such as the ‘social economy’ and ‘diverse economies’ literature. Whilst there are clear overlaps, the concept of the Foundational Economy can be distinguished through its commitment to (a) a zonal perspective; (b) a focus on maximalist social innovations; and (c) the reconstitution of citizenship. In radical combination, it is argued that the lens of the Foundational Economy facilitates ‘a trenchant critique and denaturalization of current conditions, in tandem with creative explorations of the political economy of alternatives’. The paper concludes by reflecting on current oversights and future research trajectories for Foundational Economy research.

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Section: Intersectionsmentioning

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Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development

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“…The article argued that more emphasis should be placed by European cities on the delivery of foundational infrastructure and services for local populations instead of supply side policies to attract internationally mobile capital and “creative” workers. As the structural position of cities, differences in needs across cities, and differences in the existing provision of infrastructure and services vary, the supply of those services requires a locally specific approach, a spatial contract (Schafran et al, 2020), to deliver the foundational economy efficiently and gain support for the measures. However, as the, admittedly brief and incomplete, account of Vienna demonstrated, effective “urban” policies are always required to consider location-specific inter-territorial and inter-scalar relations in order to avoid displacement and rebound effects.…”

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“…But because the basic needs of inhabitants vary across EU countries, regions, and between central cities, suburbs, and rural areas and depend on their current conjunctural position (i.e. growth, stagnation, decline), the provisioning of foundational infrastructure needs to be locally specific (Schafran et al, 2020). Building the foundational economy thus starts from the local/urban scale.…”

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Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities

Essletzbichler

2022

European Urban and Regional Studies

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In order to answer the question posed by the conference Urban Europe, Precarious Futures? the article examines the relationship between rising precariousness,the need for social-ecological transformation to keep socio-ecological environments manageable for future generations of Europeans and the provision of urban reliance systems as the key pillar of a possible transformation toward life within the planetary boundaries. The article has four goals: First, it establishes a link between the literatures on precarization, three possible political-economic development scenarios, and resulting modes of urban governance. Second, it develops the normative but theoretically and empirically backed claim that a strengthening of the foundational economy appears most suited to produce the necessary reductions in precarious living conditions and environmental destruction required for a socially and ecologically sustainable future. Third, the urban scale is argued to occupy a privileged position as a growing site of human habitation in Europe and for the design and provision of foundational infrastructure and universal basic services. The article links cities to the foundational economy via the concept of the Grounded City. Fourth, research on the provision of universal basic services in the City of Vienna is employed to illustrate that a narrow focus on cities as territorial-administrative containers ignoring their inter-territorial and inter-scalar relations is likely to produce socio-spatial rebound effects that may neutralize the gains of social-ecological investment in cities. Any effective social-ecological transformation thus requires coordination, cooperation, lobbying and political change at all scales of governance. In the European case, it requires the European Union to evolve from an economic to a social-ecological Union and for urban governance regimes across Europe to be altered to take into account the horizontal and intra-scalar relations that co-constitute cities.

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Conclusion: The Contribution of the SoP Approach

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2020

A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach

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The spatial contract

Cited by 18 publications

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Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development

Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development

Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities

Conclusion: The Contribution of the SoP Approach

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