Three bodies of moral economy: the diffusion of a concept

Siméant, Johanna

doi:10.1080/17449626.2015.1054559

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“…The term moral economy was coined by Thompson (1971) in his analysis of food riots occurring in late 18th century rural England. Our own model of moral economy is based on Siméant's (2015) description of moral economy as the moral architecture that underpins a political economy. The social science tradition of political economy describes the ways in which broader national and global contexts and trends that shape processes of production and exchange of commodities also shape human identities and subjectivities, see for example, Bourdieu (1998), Foucault (1988), Giddens (1991), Gramsci (1990), Marx and Engels (1992), and Weber (2002).…”

Section: Moral Economy and Moral Capitalmentioning

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Transactions of Moral Capital in Sick Leave Management Within the Corporate University

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In this article, we argue that sick leave and its management within the university involves exchanges of moral capital. The circulation of moral capital supports a moral economy, in turn underpinning the political economy of the corporate university. The forms of moral capital are diverse, sometimes easily recognized as such, more often hidden in plain sight. Like other forms of capital, moral capital can be accrued, depleted, and exchanged as it is paid forward. The exchanges between employers and employees within this moral economy represent trading of moral capital over and above contractual exchanges of income and other benefits for labor. Sick leave transactions illustrate the many forms this moral capital can take: values and principles, entitlements and accruals of sick leave, bureaucratic compliance, discretion, vulnerability and deservingness, employment history, and work ethic.

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“…1 The term moral economy has provoked renewed interest especially since the financial crisis of 2007/08. Recent, more general papers by Carrier (2018), Götz (2015), and Siméant (2015) give useful overviews of the history of the concept. Palomera and Vetta (2016) as well as Fassin (2009) re-politicised the concept by bringing back social class and capital.…”

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The Moral Economy of Thrift: The Production of the Indebted Self in the Reality Series Getting out of Debt and Life or Debt

Meyer

2020

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In this article, the intersection of the economic and social dimensions of thrift is analysed under the special condition of debt. The debt context serves as a focal glass exposing agents, their social practices and strategies of accumulation capitals with regard to appropriate spending. In order to capture the many layers of thrift, the concept of moral economies is applied. This concept tries to reconcile two seemingly divergent dimensions of human behaviour which can be described as individualistic, calculating and serving a self-interest (economy) on the one hand and community-oriented and benefitting a common good (morality) on the other hand. Starting out with an overview over studies on moral economies in historical and social science since the early 1970s, I will explain the heuristic use of the concept for the case of debts research and apply it to representations of thrift as visualised and popularised in the reality TV shows Raus aus den Schulden (Getting Out of Debt) and Life or Debt. Here, the images of homes are clues for the cultural productions of appropriateness on TV: What are suitable ways of living when in debt? What are adequate scenes of dwelling and narratives of dealing with debts and which normative structures regulate those stories, the perception of the self and potential social exclusion? By examining the TV show as a strong voice in the debt discourse, thrift turns out to be a cornerstone in the internal and external regimes of governing debt in the micropolitics of TV.

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“…1 The term moral economy has provoked renewed interest especially since the financial crisis of 2007/08. Recent, more general papers by Carrier (2018), Götz (2015), and Siméant (2015) give useful overviews of the history of the concept. Palomera and Vetta (2016) as well as re-politicised the concept by bringing back social class and capital.…”

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2020

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often exemplified through the authors' own children and grandchildren, specific heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, and floods are used as examples of the disastrous effects of climate change. In this thematic section of Culture Unbound, we therefore explore the uses of examples as an approach to examining how the cultural meaning of climate change is produced and maintained. Exemplifying examples Chapter 3 in the already mentioned IPCC Special Report on the 1.5 degree target adds textboxes containing a number of examples of how a warmer climate will affect different regions of the world to the highly synthesized body text (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2018). The textboxes on the consequences of rising temperature in sub-Saharan Africa, increased vulnerability of water supplies for small island states, decline of warm water coral reefs, and the impact of climate change on the global economy all tell the same story: A global temperature rise of 2 degrees at the end of this century will have huge impacts on nature and society, while the impacts of a 1.5-degree rise will be more moderate. The information presented in the textboxes does not differ substantially from the descriptions in the body text of the report. The difference is that the figures and numbers are substituted by examples. One of the textboxes is entitled "Droughts in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East". It presents the area as "an example of a region with high vulnerability where various adaption responses have emerged" (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2018: 200). The textbox continues: Exemplifying Climate Change 300 Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research zations collapsed, and rural settlements re-emerged with agro-pastoral activities and limited long-distance trade. This illustrates how some vulnerable regions are forced to pursue drastic adaptive responses, including migration and societal structure changes. (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2018: 200) The textbox concludes that "[r]isks of drying in the Mediterranean region could be substantially reduced if global warming is limited to 1.5 degree compared to 2 degrees or higher levels of warming […]. Higher warming levels may induce high levels of vulnerability exacerbated by large changes in demography" (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2018: 201). Thus, the collection of examples of drought in the eastern Mediterranean brings a threefold lesson: The change in precipitation from 1960 and onwards illustrates a global climatic tendency, the description of the drought between 2007 and 2010 as the "longest and most intense" in 900 years indicates the size of this tendency, and the reference to the drought 3,200 years ago shows the possible consequences for civilization. The historical description of droughts in the Middle East constitutes the background for future predictions on drought in the region, as well as for the societal consequences of such droughts. One reason why these examples work so efficiently is that they are presented as facts. The drought between 2007 and 2010 is indisputable. It was observed and m...

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Three bodies of moral economy: the diffusion of a concept

Cited by 43 publications

References 28 publications

Hidden in Plain Sight: Transactions of Moral Capital in Sick Leave Management Within the Corporate University

Hidden in Plain Sight: Transactions of Moral Capital in Sick Leave Management Within the Corporate University

The Moral Economy of Thrift: The Production of the Indebted Self in the Reality Series Getting out of Debt and Life or Debt

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