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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"moral economy"”.
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Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
The term moral economy has originally been used to describe agricultural communities with shared values and practices of economic justice. Its reinterpreted form, which this dissertation has arrived at, reflects a social system realising the economic potential of selflessness, which economies above …
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‘We vote for good things’: The moral economy of voting in South Africa, 2009-2019
South Africa has witnessed the emergence of electoral competitiveness between 2009-2019 as the dominance of the African National Congress (ANC) began to decline. During this time there was an increase in both abstention and opposition party support, making it a fruitful time to interrogate how …
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
… globalization-induced changes with a subsistence economy, this study highlights the ways in which rural households perceive and respond to the structural transformations and changes in their living environment, and the implications thereof for sustainable livelihoods.</p>
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The moral economy of Islamic philanthropy in Cape Town: the case of Mustadafin Foundation and the African Muslims Agency
… the ways and extent to which they constitute a moral economy of donation and distribution. Established in 1986, the Mustadafin Foundation is a homegrown South African organisation with a legacy of community building and political activism driven by an Islamic social justice ethos. On the other …
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The experience of money and the domestic moral economy of a group of young adults in Khayelitsha and their transition to adulthood
… in relation to the notion of a ‘domestic moral economy' produced at the nexus of economic and social cultural factors. Here responses of young adults to labour market conditions and consumerism impact on and are in turn impacted by social relations in the household. These responses …
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Finding Sanctuary: The Occupational Choice of Animal Shelter Work
… in order to persist, to this insight I add a moral economy lens and the notion of sanctuary to explain why my respondents stay in this occupation. My respondents feel their occupation is part of a project of wider significance, and they are supported by some members of the public in this …
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Changing relationship with the land and one another in Pindoyú, Paraguay
… on the articulation of modes of production, moral economy, and Marxist ecology. Rooted in Meillassouxs understanding of the domestic mode of production and Wolpe's extended view of the articulated modes of production, it argues that people in Pindoyú are participating in the capitalist mode …
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Homelessness and citizenship: exploring the meaning and negotiation of place, space and geography for rough sleepers.
… In doing this, I offer a critique of the moral economy of responsibility that draws extensively on the perceptions and experiences of homeless people. Ethically, and in conclusion, emphasis is placed on the importance of pursuing critically engaged and empirically sensitive scholarship …
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Micro-Impact: Deconstructing the complex impact process of a simple microinsurance product in Indonesia
… of insuring him. The study found that norms of a moral economy are still exerting significant clout on the insured. The moral economy aims at providing “subsistence insurance” for all community members through an intricate collective system of balanced exchanges. The corresponding “premium” is a …
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Gender in a Commodifying World: Recognition, Emotions and Market Women's Agency in the Goroka Marketplace, Papua New Guinea
… for others are valued acts transacted within an economy of recognition, a moral economy that encompasses the marketplace. Women are active and agentive in different spheres of the economy – including ceremonial and market transactions – not merely as producers but also transactors. Recognising …
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Encountering Germans: the Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-1918
… Europe in 1944-5 and beyond). For some, the moral economy was redefined, creating a situation in which criminality or misconduct became effective modes of survival. This, combined with economic difficulties, led to a belief among chroniclers of occupied life that crime was increasing, and …
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Household allocation of labor time in two types of smallholder farming systems in rural Kenya
… based on relative power, social ideology, and moral economy.
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The Political Economy of Transpositions: A Study of the Eurozone Crisis
… I maintain that the Eurozone's real economy is more interconnected than conventional narratives of European economic unification allow, and that supposedly national European economies – including particularly that of Germany – are integrated subcircuits of Europe's real economy. …
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Investing for Impact: Finance and Farming in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
… (discursive, disciplinary, and institutional), moral economies, and the role of socio-material entities. My findings show that SII is being driven by the pursuit for new profit frontiers and concerns over business risks, and also by a belief that a more ethical capitalist economy can be built. …
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What Was Squatting, and What Comes Next?: The Mystery of Property in New York City, 1984-2014
… to the times and places where the political and moral economies of property are actively contested and renegotiated. Squatters who make successful claims on property draw our attention to disjunctures between the moral economy and the legal system of property. Squatters had a complex and dynamic …
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Remittances and the Moral Economies of Bangladeshi New York Immigrants in Light of the Economic Crisis
… reason is the strong presence of what I call a "moral economy of giving and sharing" that is guided by cultural or religious repertoires on family obligations, kinship, gender, hierarchy, and charity. Drawing on empirical narratives and biographies that combine open-ended interviews with 65 …
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Unsettling Times: land, political economy and protest in the Bedouin villages of central Jordan
… of contemporary Bedouin identity and political economy in central Jordan. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it follows the experiences of young, mostly male, interlocutors living in small villages around the town of Madaba, from two largely settled but still discursively Bedouin …
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Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman
… dissertation traces the musical constitution of moral, economic, material, and social relations between rural communities and the state in the Sultanate of Oman. I argue that communities embedded within the authoritarian state hegemony of the Sultanate form and affirm social relations with the …
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Unjust Profit: Moral Economies of Recycling and Migration in Urban Turkey
… migrants and citizens are key sites where new moral understandings of work, profit, and citizenship are produced. The study aims to introduce new empirical and conceptual understandings of moral economic life, citizenship, and waste labour. As the largest city in a country that hosts nearly …
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The Local Drug Economy: The Case of Hashish Production in a post-Soviet Kyrgyz Village
… under which the agricultural mountainous economy operated as a result; 2) the legitimation of hashish making by drug producing community due to perceived injustice towards people who had to survive without any state support while the elite was corrupted and governance of drug control was …
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