Sally Healy
Biographic Data
| ID | 125874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Healy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2394-3488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Response to Jason Spicer’s Review of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
presumed to serve low-income households, but the extent of food provision is unclear.Some gardens might be central to household food security, while others contribute little.Additionally, a worker co-op with 2,000 distributed workers is treated similarly to a housing co-op with 2,000 single-site members.These data issues collectively could obscure heterogeneity within the "edge zone" and "bulwark" patterns in meaningful ways.While the authors ack…
Reuse organisations as infrastructure for inclusive circular cities: Conceptualising the contributions and agency of community and charitable reuse organisations
Community and charitable reuse organisations provide significant social infrastructure that facilitates the redistribution of discarded items to new owners, but are often overlooked in circular cities initiatives. Drawing on a survey of 34 reuse organisations from across Australia and recorded interviews and site visits to 10 of these between 2021 and 2023, we characterise the processes, practices and types of organisations across the sector. We …
Reuse Value: The potential of community based organisations to reframe and transform the circular economy
Reuse is conceptualized as both an embodied and relational form of value. • Community-based organizations generate circular economies that are more inclusive, adaptive, and socially embedded. • These organizations demonstrate distinct expertise in coordinating the rehoming of goods through local networks. • They also innovate by re-purposing and re-inventing reuse objects, extending their material and cultural value. • The circular economy become…
Super-philanthropy, repetition, difference, and decolonial possibilities and postcapitalist futures
Pablo Fuentenebro et al.’s ‘Geographies of Super-Philanthropy: Disaggregating the Global Philanthropic Complex’ describes the power of contemporary philanthropy. Their piece is highly insightful, and I appreciate their deep engagement with a topic central to how communities might address climate change and other pressing global challenges. While the comparison is wildly inappropriate, James Ferguson’s (2015) description of tech sector wealth as a…
Matter, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene
The ways social theorists conceptualize the material world influences their approach to conceiving and addressing the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. This article uses panpsychist theory, which holds that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the natural world, as a way of conceptualizing and developing responses to these challenges. This is done by contrasting panpsychist conceptions of materiality and conscious…
Global Libidinal Economy: Toward a Postcapitalist Politics of Enjoyment
Cultivating commoners: Infrastructures and subjectivities for a postcapitalist counter-city
In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, includ…
Postcapitalist composting: Reverse Logistics and Organic Waste, Designing for Diverse Livelihoods
KEYWORDS: Diverse economiesdesigncircular economydiverse economiesdesigncircular economy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Australian Research Council: [Grant Number DP210100175].Notes on contributorsStephen HealyStephen Healy is an Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Science and Research Fellow, Institu…
Waste/economy/ecology: Redrawing the Circular Economy
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Australian Research Council
Shared survival and cooperation in India and Australia
Eka Nari Sanghathan (ENS), an Indigenous single women farmer's collective in Odisha, India and Norco Dairy in regional NSW, Australia are cooperatives undertaking collective action to ‘survive well’, securing agrarian livelihoods in the face of climate change. Striking differences in affluence and poverty separate these place‐based cooperatives while other things connect them: an Earth unsettled by climate change and extractivist/capitalist inter…
Introduction to the themed issue: “Post-capitalist economies and the geographies of exclusion: Current research on solidarity economies and social transformation”
Self‐determination and a shattered star: Statehood and national identity in the Somali Horn of Africa
This article explores the articulation—in different forms, at different periods, and by different actors—of ‘national self‐determination’ in Somalia and across the Somali‐speaking regions of the Horn of Africa. It explores how this concept can be understood in the context of protracted political fragmentation in Somalia—considering unresolved debates over the ideological foundations of state reconstruction, disagreements about the suitability of …
Framing essay: Subjectivity in a diverse economy
Diverse economies scholarship has used a wide variety of thinking traditions to understand economic subjectivity and theorize subjects who might desire and enact postcapitalist community economies. In this chapter the authors clarify what the term ‘subject’ has come to mean in the context of a diverse, more than capitalist, economy. They introduce their concept of the ‘decentred subject’ and contrast their open-ended and anti-essentialist approac…
The Place of Common Bond: Can Credit Unions Make Place for Solidarity Economy
About 6,000 financial cooperatives, called credit unions, with more than 103 million members manage over $1 trillion in collective assets in the United States but are largely invisible and seen as inferior to private banks. In contrast to banks that generate profit for outside investors and do not give voice to customers, these not-for-profit institutions have a democratic governance structure and a mission to provide good services to their membe…
Surviving well together
Critical development scholarship is moving past a position of critique, into explorations of the practice of postdevelopment. In this chapter we explore engaged research as an example of practice. We discuss which are attuned to what community economies scholars call the goal of ‘surviving well together’. The concept of surviving well together requires us to think not only about what is required for an individual, household, or community to meet …
Fred Block, capitalist illusions, inhabiting post-capitalist desires
Economic Geography and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene: A Rejoinder
We are thrilled by Vicky Lawson’s deeply appreciative response to the Roepke Lecture and the written article. In her response, Vicky does more than we could ask for by inviting economic geographers to think with us about ways of reworking manufacturing (and other economic activities) that center on care for the well-being of people and of the planet. Vicky goes to the heart of our project by highlighting the importance we place on looking for the…
Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-Economic Geography, Manufacturing, and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene
In a world beset by the problems of climate change and growing socioeconomic inequality, industrial manufacturing has been implicated as a key driver. In this article we take seriously Roepke’s call for geographic research to intervene in obvious problems and ask can manufacturing contribute to different pathways forward? We reflect on how studies have shifted from positioning manufacturing as a matter of fact (with an emphasis on exposing the ex…
Biofuels, Ex-felons, and Empower, a Worker-Owned Cooperative: Performing Enterprises Differently
Infrastructures of Care: Opening up “Home” as Commons in a Hot City
What does it mean to be at home in a hot city? One response is to shut our doors and close ourselves in a cocoon of air-conditioned thermal comfort. As the climate warms, indoor environments facilitated by technical infrastructures of cooling are fast becoming the condition around which urban life is shaped. The price we pay for this response is high: our bodies have become sedentary, patterns of consumption individualized, and spaces of comforta…
Corporate Enterprise as Commonwealth
Deepening ecological crisis alongside a half century of widening inequality and economic instability are evidence that ‘Business as Usual’ cannot go on. Transformation is required, particularly in the realm of corporate activity, the business of business. Shareholder primacy is a powerful social norm that constrains transformation. It positions publicly traded corporations as compelled by competitive necessity and bound by law to place shareholde…
Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia's Solidarity Economy
In debates over post‐capitalist politics, growing attention has been paid to the solidarity economy (SE), a framework that draws together diverse practices ranging from co‐ops to community gardens. Despite proponents’ commitment to inclusion, racial and class divides suffuse the SE movement. Using qualitative fieldwork and an original SE dataset, this article examines the geospatial composition of the SE within the segregated geography of Philade…
Commoning and the politics of solidarity: Transformational responses to poverty
La construction du commun comme politique post-capitaliste
Aujourd'hui la planète est confrontée à l'absence de gestion de communs vitaux tels que l'air, le climat, l'eau. Il importe de construire des modalités collectives de gestion de ces communs, impliquant le maximum de parties prenantes. Pour cela, il faut sortir du capitalocentrisme, parallèle au phallocentrisme dénoncé par les féministes, pour lequel le commun serait engendré inévitablement par les contradictions du capitalisme. Il vaut mieux anal…
Beginning with care, touching feminist materiality
Matters of Care feels at once like a new beginning for ethics and politics in more than human worlds, yet also the logical outcome of many years of work in new materialist and feminist thought. It
Extended peer communities and the ascendance of post-normal politics
Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-Economic Geography, Manufacturing, and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene
In a world beset by the problems of climate change and growing socioeconomic inequality, industrial manufacturing has been implicated as a key driver. In this article we take seriously Roepke’s call for geographic research to intervene in obvious problems and ask can manufacturing contribute to different pathways forward? We reflect on how studies have shifted from positioning manufacturing as a matter of fact (with an emphasis on exposing the ex…
Cooperative Subjects: Toward a Post-Fantasmatic Enjoyment of the Economy
This piece explores practices within some cooperative firms as attempts to foster a subject who has a particular relationship with work and with the community economy. We call this relationship identifying or working in the gap: deriving satisfaction from engaging with the various antagonisms, conflicts, and contingencies that attend the cooperative and its relationship with the community in which it is constituted. Drawing on complementary strai…
A ‘post‐foundational’ interpretation of risk: Risk as ‘performance’
Contemporary problems tend to be inherently ‘post‐normal’ in their intimate intermeshing of scientific and contextual concerns. Yet we struggle with this mix, constrained by analytical frameworks that admit one or other of these concerns but not both. While this segregation of material and social domains has been central to the western intellectual tradition, alternative understandings transcending these distinctions have recently been developed.…
Commoning and the politics of solidarity: Transformational responses to poverty
Epistemological pluralism and the ‘politics of choice’
Caring for ethics and the politics of health care reform in the United States
It is increasingly recognized that the work of (unpaid) informal caregivers constitutes an important contribution to care delivery in the United States and in many other societies. Accounting for the range of social, economic and political circumstances in which this care is produced has become the focus of a number of academics and others theorizing the ‘third sector’, or the ‘social economy’. However, some scholars are concerned that the increa…
Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia's Solidarity Economy
In debates over post‐capitalist politics, growing attention has been paid to the solidarity economy (SE), a framework that draws together diverse practices ranging from co‐ops to community gardens. Despite proponents’ commitment to inclusion, racial and class divides suffuse the SE movement. Using qualitative fieldwork and an original SE dataset, this article examines the geospatial composition of the SE within the segregated geography of Philade…
Cultivating commoners: Infrastructures and subjectivities for a postcapitalist counter-city
In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, includ…
Cooperation, Surplus Appropriation, and the Law's Enjoyment
The announcement of a partnership between the United Steelworkers Union and the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, along with earlier news of a Mondragón-inspired, large-scale cooperative development in Cleveland, Ohio, sparked an exchange among members of the Rethinking Marxism community about the potential of worker cooperatives and the communal class process. Two divergent perspectives emerged. For some, the progressive potential of cooperativ…
Communism as a Mode of Life
This paper is based on a talk I delivered at Rethinking Marxism's 2013 international conference in conversation with Jodi Dean at a plenary session entitled "Crafting a Conversation on Communism." I attempt to clear up a point of confusion in Dean's reading of postcapitalist politics and the work of the Community Economies Collective (of which I am a member) in order to arrive at a point we share in common: the immanent relevance of communism to …
Post-normal science in postnormal times
The biopolitics of community economies in the era of the Anthropocene
In a recent essay Michael Hardt gives voice to a widespread discontent with the left-academic project of critique, stemming from its failure to deliver on its emancipatory promises. Scholarship, in geography and many other social science disciplines is dominated by a pre-occupation with charting the intricate connections between neoliberal governance and an expansive capitalism. As Hardt and many others have observed, the process of critical expo…
Seeking peace and security in the Horn of Africa: The contribution of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development
Journal Article Seeking peace and security in the Horn of Africa: the contribution of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development Get access SALLY HEALY SALLY HEALY 1Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 105–120, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.00962.x Published: 19 January 2011
Deadly Dingoes: `Wild' or Simply Requiring `Due Process'
This paper elaborates a relational framework for `political ecology', based on an analysis of a controversy over the aggressive behaviour of the dingoes on Fraser Island and brought to prominence by the death of a 9-year-old tourist in 2001. In contrast to the authorities' treatment of Fraser's environment as an essentially enduring entity, readily compliant with instrumental interventions, the `partial perspectives' of their local critics emphas…
Self‐determination and a shattered star: Statehood and national identity in the Somali Horn of Africa
This article explores the articulation—in different forms, at different periods, and by different actors—of ‘national self‐determination’ in Somalia and across the Somali‐speaking regions of the Horn of Africa. It explores how this concept can be understood in the context of protracted political fragmentation in Somalia—considering unresolved debates over the ideological foundations of state reconstruction, disagreements about the suitability of …
La construction du commun comme politique post-capitaliste
Aujourd'hui la planète est confrontée à l'absence de gestion de communs vitaux tels que l'air, le climat, l'eau. Il importe de construire des modalités collectives de gestion de ces communs, impliquant le maximum de parties prenantes. Pour cela, il faut sortir du capitalocentrisme, parallèle au phallocentrisme dénoncé par les féministes, pour lequel le commun serait engendré inévitablement par les contradictions du capitalisme. Il vaut mieux anal…
Public Participation as the Performance of Nature
Global Libidinal Economy: Toward a Postcapitalist Politics of Enjoyment
Waste/economy/ecology: Redrawing the Circular Economy
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Australian Research Council
Shared survival and cooperation in India and Australia
Eka Nari Sanghathan (ENS), an Indigenous single women farmer's collective in Odisha, India and Norco Dairy in regional NSW, Australia are cooperatives undertaking collective action to ‘survive well’, securing agrarian livelihoods in the face of climate change. Striking differences in affluence and poverty separate these place‐based cooperatives while other things connect them: an Earth unsettled by climate change and extractivist/capitalist inter…
Reuse Value: The potential of community based organisations to reframe and transform the circular economy
Reuse is conceptualized as both an embodied and relational form of value. • Community-based organizations generate circular economies that are more inclusive, adaptive, and socially embedded. • These organizations demonstrate distinct expertise in coordinating the rehoming of goods through local networks. • They also innovate by re-purposing and re-inventing reuse objects, extending their material and cultural value. • The circular economy become…
Super-philanthropy, repetition, difference, and decolonial possibilities and postcapitalist futures
Pablo Fuentenebro et al.’s ‘Geographies of Super-Philanthropy: Disaggregating the Global Philanthropic Complex’ describes the power of contemporary philanthropy. Their piece is highly insightful, and I appreciate their deep engagement with a topic central to how communities might address climate change and other pressing global challenges. While the comparison is wildly inappropriate, James Ferguson’s (2015) description of tech sector wealth as a…
Postcapitalist composting: Reverse Logistics and Organic Waste, Designing for Diverse Livelihoods
KEYWORDS: Diverse economiesdesigncircular economydiverse economiesdesigncircular economy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Australian Research Council: [Grant Number DP210100175].Notes on contributorsStephen HealyStephen Healy is an Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Science and Research Fellow, Institu…
Introduction to the themed issue: “Post-capitalist economies and the geographies of exclusion: Current research on solidarity economies and social transformation”
The Principle of Self-Determination: Still Alive and Well
Extended peer communities and the ascendance of post-normal politics
Epistemological pluralism and the ‘politics of choice’
Public Participation as the Performance of Nature
A ‘post‐foundational’ interpretation of risk: Risk as ‘performance’
Contemporary problems tend to be inherently ‘post‐normal’ in their intimate intermeshing of scientific and contextual concerns. Yet we struggle with this mix, constrained by analytical frameworks that admit one or other of these concerns but not both. While this segregation of material and social domains has been central to the western intellectual tradition, alternative understandings transcending these distinctions have recently been developed.…
STS and Environmental Justice: An Uneasy Alchemy
Cooperative Subjects: Toward a Post-Fantasmatic Enjoyment of the Economy
This piece explores practices within some cooperative firms as attempts to foster a subject who has a particular relationship with work and with the community economy. We call this relationship identifying or working in the gap: deriving satisfaction from engaging with the various antagonisms, conflicts, and contingencies that attend the cooperative and its relationship with the community in which it is constituted. Drawing on complementary strai…
Deadly Dingoes: `Wild' or Simply Requiring `Due Process'
This paper elaborates a relational framework for `political ecology', based on an analysis of a controversy over the aggressive behaviour of the dingoes on Fraser Island and brought to prominence by the death of a 9-year-old tourist in 2001. In contrast to the authorities' treatment of Fraser's environment as an essentially enduring entity, readily compliant with instrumental interventions, the `partial perspectives' of their local critics emphas…
Caring for ethics and the politics of health care reform in the United States
It is increasingly recognized that the work of (unpaid) informal caregivers constitutes an important contribution to care delivery in the United States and in many other societies. Accounting for the range of social, economic and political circumstances in which this care is produced has become the focus of a number of academics and others theorizing the ‘third sector’, or the ‘social economy’. However, some scholars are concerned that the increa…
Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities
If the Global Finance Crisis has taught us anything, it's that economics as we know it is not working. If global warming means anything, it's that we have to rethink how we live on this shared planet. Take Back the Economy is about making the economy work for people and the planet. It is intended for academic researchers, activists, students, community members and citizens interested in how they can contribute to a more just, sustainable and equi…
Facilitating Public Participation in Toxic Waste Management Through Engaging ‘The Object of Politics’
This paper uses the experience of local community involvement in the disposal of the world's largest stockpile of toxic hexachlorobenzene waste, at Botany in Sydney, to refine insights regarding strategies for facilitating public participation in such challenging scientific and technological problems. Recent research focussed upon the politics of such issues is used to clarify a critical epistemological role for non-expert community stakeholders …
Cooperation, Surplus Appropriation, and the Law's Enjoyment
The announcement of a partnership between the United Steelworkers Union and the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, along with earlier news of a Mondragón-inspired, large-scale cooperative development in Cleveland, Ohio, sparked an exchange among members of the Rethinking Marxism community about the potential of worker cooperatives and the communal class process. Two divergent perspectives emerged. For some, the progressive potential of cooperativ…
Seeking peace and security in the Horn of Africa: The contribution of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development
Journal Article Seeking peace and security in the Horn of Africa: the contribution of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development Get access SALLY HEALY SALLY HEALY 1Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 105–120, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.00962.x Published: 19 January 2011
Post-normal science in postnormal times
Affective Dissent
This article identifies a form of affective bio-politics more intimate, engrained and corporeally enacted than that identified in recent work emphasising the affective qualities of activism and labour. While these latter reinforce and bolster existing analyses through the identification of further affective concerns, affective bio-politics suggests that neoliberalism supports and sustains itself quite fundamentally through, what have generally be…
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The biopolitics of community economies in the era of the Anthropocene
In a recent essay Michael Hardt gives voice to a widespread discontent with the left-academic project of critique, stemming from its failure to deliver on its emancipatory promises. Scholarship, in geography and many other social science disciplines is dominated by a pre-occupation with charting the intricate connections between neoliberal governance and an expansive capitalism. As Hardt and many others have observed, the process of critical expo…
Parody, the Party, Politics, and Postcapitalism: Some Thoughts on a Shared Future
This essay responds to the generous commentaries on the talks Jodi Dean and I delivered during the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. It offers further reflections on communism as a political project, on its relation to postcapitalist practices, and on Dean's desire to “return to the party,” making two distinct interventions. First, while I remain agonistic about the relevance of the party, I express concerns about Dean's sharp del…
Communism as a Mode of Life
This paper is based on a talk I delivered at Rethinking Marxism's 2013 international conference in conversation with Jodi Dean at a plenary session entitled "Crafting a Conversation on Communism." I attempt to clear up a point of confusion in Dean's reading of postcapitalist politics and the work of the Community Economies Collective (of which I am a member) in order to arrive at a point we share in common: the immanent relevance of communism to …
Commoning as a postcapitalist politics 1
This chapter explores how the process of commoning offers a politics for the Anthropocene. It needs to step outside of the ways that the commons have generally been understood to reveal the political potential of communing. The chapter discusses the capitalocentric framing of the commons and raise concerns about how this framing limits the potential of commoning as a politics for the Anthropocene. Capitalocentrism names the way that a diversity o…
Saint Francis in Climate-Changing Times: Form of Life, the Highest Poverty, and Postcapitalist Politics
This paper considers the relevance of Franciscan monastic practice to contemporary postcapitalist politics in the time of the Anthropocene. Giorgio Agamben’s reflections on the monastic revolution of the eleventh and twelfth centuries explores the different relationships between the rules governing monastic life and materiality, wherein the renunciation of property and the practice of highest poverty give the greatest expression of a collective, …
Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone
Post-capitalistic politics in the making: The imaginary and praxis of alternative economies
Biofuels, Ex-felons, and Empower, a Worker-Owned Cooperative: Performing Enterprises Differently
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