Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?

IF 5.6 2区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI:10.1093/cjres/rsae022
Matthew Thompson, Charlotte Cator, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Martin Jones, Kevin Morgan
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This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—as a strategy for revalorising waste—presents a possible structural limit to capitalism’s further expansion. Moreover, when combined with notions of degrowth and doughnut economics, the circular economy may provide an imaginary and set of prefigurative practices that point towards a postcapitalist economy. Through a case study of Amsterdam—a city aiming to be fully circular by 2050—we examine this contradictory crossroads, problematising the idea of circularity within capitalism and exploring the potential of postcapitalist alternatives within the circular economy.
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处于世界生态十字路口的阿姆斯特丹循环经济:后资本主义脱增长还是下一个资本积累制度?
本文将循环经济概念化为以资本主义和地球城市化为媒介的非物质和物质代谢流动空间。世界生态学为我们提供了一个批判性视角,将循环经济视为可能取代新自由主义的新兴积累制度的一部分。然而,如果每一种制度都需要新的前沿地带来占有廉价的自然和倾倒废弃物,那么循环经济--作为一种重塑废弃物价值的战略--就为资本主义的进一步扩张提供了一种可能的结构性限制。此外,当循环经济与 "去增长"(degrowth)和 "甜甜圈经济学"(doughnut economics)的概念相结合时,循环经济可以提供一种想象和一套预示性实践,指向后资本主义经济。我们通过对阿姆斯特丹--一座致力于在 2050 年实现完全循环的城市--的案例研究,审视了这一矛盾的十字路口,对资本主义内部的循环理念提出了质疑,并探索了循环经济中后资本主义替代方案的潜力。
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