The Handbook of Diverse Economies

IF 7.2 1区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Economic Geography Pub Date : 2021-07-20 DOI:10.1080/00130095.2021.1948326
C. Schulz
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This intriguing handbook is based on scholarly cooperation in the Community Economies Research Network (CERN, almost three hundred members) and thus the fruit of a long-standing engagement with the various articulations of alternative economies in many parts of the world. Overall, sixty-eight authors contributed to the fifty-eight chapters, mirroring not only the thematic variegation but also the international multiplicity of today’s diverse economies scholarship, originating from all continents and ranging from university scholars over community activists to different kinds of practitioners. The admitted predominance of Australasian-based contributors appears only natural given that the diverse economies scholarship emanated from J. K. Gibson-Graham’s pioneering work since the end of the 1990s, leading to its current hubs around the coeditors’ home institutions, that is, the Western Sydney University, Australia, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The handbook is clearly structured into seven parts, five of which are topical and two transversal. The latter include a section on methodological perspectives and specific challenges of diverse economies research as well as a similarly intriguing section that clarifies and conceptualizes the notion of subjectivity in more-thancapitalist economic practices. The topical parts take a sectoral though integrative look at possible thematic perspectives on diverse economies: enterprise, labor, transactions, property, finance. All parts start with a framing essay, elegantly synthesizing the conceptual underpinnings of diverse economies research and practice in the given realm. These essays themselves can both be read as stand-alone conceptual papers building on the state of the art and suggesting research agendas, and can be understood as an introduction into the subsequent contributions dealing with subsectors or with regional case studies. The section on labor, for example, is introduced by a compelling deconstruction of waged labor that seeks to “unravel the fullest set of possibilities for how work is constructed” (p. 126). The framing essay is followed by empirical insights into precarious labor in Russia, informal and unpaid labor in UK households, feminist economic activism related to paid and unpaid labor, care work, informal mining labor around Manila, and migrant women’s labor in Ghana. The section also comprises an inspiring chapter on nonhuman labor, that is, the diverse contributions of Earth Others to planetary livelihood, pleading for overcoming a human-focused perspective on nature, and thus making a clear distinction compared to the notion of ecosystem services. Another section of particular interest for economic geographers is the one on the enterprise. The framing essay opens the reader’s eyes for a look beyond the formal corporation and its market transactions, and hence challenges the capitalocentric framings of many strong theories in economic geography research. The essay deliberately includes various kinds of cooperatives, community economies, and other alternative and hybrid organizations, and it scrutinizes the wider conditions of existence for the enterprise, suggesting a relational ontology that “helps to break down the idea of an enterprise as a single bound unit” (p. 35). The subsequent chapters of this section deal BO O K R EV EW
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这本有趣的手册是基于社区经济研究网络(CERN,近300名成员)的学术合作,因此是世界许多地区长期参与各种替代经济的成果。总体而言,68位作者为58个章节做出了贡献,不仅反映了主题的多样性,而且反映了当今多元化经济奖学金的国际多样性,这些奖学金来自各大洲,从大学学者到社区活动家再到不同类型的实践者。考虑到自20世纪90年代末以来,多元经济研究源于J. K. Gibson-Graham的开创性工作,导致其目前的中心围绕共同编辑的家乡机构,即澳大利亚的西悉尼大学和新西兰的坎特伯雷大学,澳大利亚的贡献者占主导地位似乎是很自然的。该手册明确分为七个部分,其中五个是专题和两个横向。后者包括方法论观点和不同经济研究的具体挑战的部分,以及同样有趣的部分,澄清和概念化非资本主义经济实践中的主体性概念。专题部分采取一个部门,虽然综合看不同的经济可能的专题观点:企业,劳动,交易,财产,金融。所有部分都以一篇框架文章开始,优雅地综合了给定领域中不同经济体研究和实践的概念基础。这些论文本身既可以作为独立的概念性论文来阅读,这些论文建立在最新技术的基础上,并提出了研究议程,也可以被理解为对后续涉及分部门或区域案例研究的贡献的介绍。例如,关于劳动的部分是通过对有偿劳动的令人信服的解构来引入的,这种解构试图“揭示工作是如何构建的最充分的可能性”(第126页)。框架文章之后是对俄罗斯不稳定劳动的实证见解,英国家庭中的非正式和无偿劳动,与有偿和无偿劳动相关的女权主义经济活动,护理工作,马尼拉周围的非正式采矿劳动以及加纳的移民妇女劳动。本节还包括一个鼓舞人心的章节,关于非人类劳动,即地球他人对地球生计的各种贡献,呼吁克服以人类为中心的自然观点,从而与生态系统服务的概念进行明确区分。经济地理学家特别感兴趣的另一部分是关于企业的。这篇框架文章打开了读者的眼睛,让他们看到了正式公司及其市场交易之外的东西,从而挑战了经济地理学研究中许多强有力的理论中以资本为中心的框架。这篇文章有意地包括了各种各样的合作社、社区经济和其他可选择的和混合的组织,它仔细考察了企业存在的更广泛的条件,提出了一种关系本体,“有助于打破企业作为单一约束单位的观念”(第35页)。本节的后续章节处理BO O K R EV EW
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