TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-embedding economies in ecologies
T2 - resilience building in more than human communities
AU - Gibson-Graham, J.K.
AU - Hill, Ann
AU - Law, Lisa
PY - 2016/10/2
Y1 - 2016/10/2
N2 - The modern hyper-separation of economy from ecology has severed the ties that people have with environments and species that sustain life. A first step towards strengthening resilience at a human scale involves appreciating, caring for and repairing the longstanding ecological relationships that have supported life over the millennia. The capacity to appreciate these relationships has, however, been diminished by a utilitarian positioning of natural environments by economic science. Ecologists have gone further in capturing the interdependence of economies and ecologies with the concept of socio-ecological resilience. Of concern, however, is the persistence of a vision of an economy ordered by market determinations in which there is no role for ethical negotiation between humans and with the non-human world. This paper reframes economy?ecology relations, resituating humans within ecological communities and resituating non-humans in ethical terms. It advances the idea of community economies (as opposed to capitalist economies) and argues that these must be built if we are to sustain life in the Anthropocene. The argument is illustrated with reference to two construction projects situated in 'Monsoon Asia'.
AB - The modern hyper-separation of economy from ecology has severed the ties that people have with environments and species that sustain life. A first step towards strengthening resilience at a human scale involves appreciating, caring for and repairing the longstanding ecological relationships that have supported life over the millennia. The capacity to appreciate these relationships has, however, been diminished by a utilitarian positioning of natural environments by economic science. Ecologists have gone further in capturing the interdependence of economies and ecologies with the concept of socio-ecological resilience. Of concern, however, is the persistence of a vision of an economy ordered by market determinations in which there is no role for ethical negotiation between humans and with the non-human world. This paper reframes economy?ecology relations, resituating humans within ecological communities and resituating non-humans in ethical terms. It advances the idea of community economies (as opposed to capitalist economies) and argues that these must be built if we are to sustain life in the Anthropocene. The argument is illustrated with reference to two construction projects situated in 'Monsoon Asia'.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981713309&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09613218.2016.1213059
DO - 10.1080/09613218.2016.1213059
M3 - Article
VL - 44
SP - 703
EP - 716
JO - Building Research and Information: the international journal of research, development and demonstration
JF - Building Research and Information: the international journal of research, development and demonstration
SN - 0182-3329
IS - 7
ER -