Values

Stein, Felix; Lazar, Sian; Candea, Matei; Diemberger, Hildegard; Robbins, Joel; Sanchez, Andrew; Stasch, Rupert

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“…Values, consequently, become instilled in people not only through the influence of collective representations of what is considered good and important in life (Robbins, 2015). Values become represented to and instilled in subjects through the influence of those considered to be "exemplary persons" (see Humphrey, 1997;Robbins and Sommerschuh, 2016). These persons, in fact, shape the community and impose their standards, unlike subsidies, IPA, IPARD and other state agricultural policies which in the local context seem irrelevant.…”

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Kovács

2021

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

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Section: Explaining Endogenous Development Storiesmentioning

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Introduction

Kovács

2021

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

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“…With anthropology's turn towards studying ethics, morality, and the good (Laidlaw 2014; Robbins 2013 a ), the concept of ‘values’ has again become an important analytical category (cf. Haynes 2017: 7‐11; Robbins & Sommerschuh 2016). In this article, I follow Robbins (2012: 120) in defining values as ‘cultural conceptions of the good or desirable’.…”

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Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia

Sommerschuh

2021

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article explains the recent emergence of Orthodox Christianity in a majoritarian Evangelical Protestant community in southern Ethiopia. Examining conversion motives and forms of religious engagement, I show that Orthodoxy is attractive to erstwhile followers of traditional practice because it affords them the solution to a value conflict. Joining an institutionalized ‘religion’ associated with national elites, converts attain the respectability formerly denied them by Evangelicals. And since Orthodoxy is less puritan than local Evangelicalism, conversion does not come at the expense of conviviality. An ethnographic discussion of this process of value harmonization provides the basis for a conceptual contribution to anthropological value theory, while also offering new insights for the debate about different modalities of Christian change.

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“…Anthropologists have generally understood values in terms of either value monism (Dumont 1980;Robbins 2013Robbins , 2015Robbins and Sommerschuh 2016) or value pluralism (Kluckhohn 1951;Weber 1967;Graeber 2001Graeber , 2013. Either values are realised in separate social domains, and thus, they do not give rise to conflicts, or then a plurality of values co-exists, in which case people have to make difficult choices between conflicting values (for more on this topic, see Robbins 2013Robbins , 2015.…”

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“…The concept of value has attained a prominent role in anthropology of late (e.g. Robbins and Sommerschuh 2016). In his influential book on value, anthropologist David Graeber (2001) observes that there are three distinct theoretical concepts of value, i.e.…”

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Contested values and climate change mitigation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Lounela

2020

Soc Anthropol

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Climate change mitigation pilot projects (REDD+ -Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) affect and interact with the local population in Central Kalimantan and many other parts of Indonesia. Rather than being politically and economically neutral activities, climate change mitigation projects tend to objectify the value of carbon, land and labour, contributing to a process of commodification of nature and social relations. In this specific case study, a set of values -equality and autonomy -central to the Ngaju people, the indigenous population in Central Kalimantan, become contested in the course of the climate change mitigation project. These central values are produced in everyday activities that include mobility and the productive base -subsistence and market-based production -among the Ngaju people. On the other hand, the climate change mitigation project-related environmental practices and actions produce values that point to individual (material) benefit and stratification of the society. The aim of the paper is to draw attention to and create understanding of value production and related tensions in the efforts to 'fix' environmental degradation problems through the climate change mitigation pilot project in Central Kalimantan.

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Cited by 16 publications

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Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia

Contested values and climate change mitigation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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