Julien-François Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 79905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julien-François Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julien-François |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4024-2480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 433 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
A Period of Respite? The Effects of Covid-19 on Pastoralism in Italy and Spain
Pastoralism in Italy and Spain have undergone major shifts over the last fifty years as market-driven policies have marginalised traditional herding. COVID-19 brought both challenges and opportunities for pastoralists. Lockdowns increased appreciation for shepherding and limited tourism. It provided rural areas with a temporary respite; however, higher production costs, disrupted sales channels and changing rural property values strained liveliho…
James Scott’s anarchism
The ‘anarchist lens’ can be seen as a key thread throughout James Scott’s works in critical agrarian studies (CAS). This article offers an overview of his engagement with anarchism. It reviews four anarchist(ic) themes that characterize his contribution: the critique of the state, political praxis, possibilities of escape from the state (and capitalism), and the political economy of independent producers. The article underscores the fertility of …
Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability
This paper explores how animistic rituals—specifically the ovoo offering in Inner Mongolia—can serve as embodied engagements with what Roy Bhaskar (1975) calls the “real”: a deeper layer of reality shaped by unseen causal and spiritual forces. By acknowledging the 'inhabitants' of this deeper layer, we contribute to the broader post-humanist, or more-than-human, turn in the social sciences and humanities. Using a sensory collaborative autoethnogr…
From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa
The second contradiction of capitalism
Alternatives to sustainable development: What Can We Learn From the Pluriverse in Practice
The awkward struggle: A global overview of social conflicts against private debts
Over the past two decades, indebtedness has been at the centre of the world's attention, but social conflicts against private debts have only rarely been studied. Drawing on a global database of 65 cases ranging from 1765 to 2020, we offer a preliminary glimpse at such mobilisations. We find that anti-debt conflicts seem to have increased exponentially since the early 1980s and that they have involved different social classes with various politic…
Anti-mining conflicts and degrowth
Is there a collective alternative vision emerging from the thousands of people involved in mining conflicts worldwide? Are the people involved in such conflicts promoters and practitioners of more sustainable economies? And if they oppose predatory forms of economic growth, aren’t they the ‘natural allies’ of the degrowth movement? Examining these questions will be crucial for understanding the changing nature of commodity frontiers and their eve…
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
Degrowth and critical agrarian studies
Degrowth refers to a radical politico-economic reorganisation that leads to smaller and more equitable social metabolisms. Degrowth posits that such a transition is indispensable but also desirable. However, the conditions of its realisation require more research. This article argues that critical agrarian studies (CAS) and degrowth can enrich each other. The Agrarian Question and the Growth Question should be addressed in concert. While degrowth…
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan
A Reply to Patrick Neveling
The theory of ownership developed by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger crucially distinguishes between ‘property’ – fostering modern credit/debt contracts in all their variety – and ‘possession’ – regulating the material reproduction of all societies. These two authors and their increasing number of followers have shed valuable light on the dynamics of capitalism, characterized as an economy strategically driven by property, but they have had litt…
In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – Mefa and MuSiasem
Basic principles of possession-based economies
The theory of ownership developed by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger crucially distinguishes between 'property' - fostering modern credit/debt contracts in all their variety - and 'possession' - regulating the material reproduction of all societies. These two authors and their increasing number of followers have shed valuable light on the dynamics of capitalism, characterized as an economy strategically driven by property, but they have had litt…
Decommodification as a foundation for ecological economics
Ecological economists have emphasized the study of commodification (i.e., the development of market-based exchange and valuation) rather than decommodification processes (i.e., the degree of immunization from market dependency). This is surprising given the fact that large-scale decommodification may be our best option for a post-growth transition so dear to many ecological economists. Based on Heinsohn and Steiger's theory of ownership, we seek …
The Legacy of K. William Kapp
Many thanks are due to
An overview of local credit systems and their implications for post-growth
The role of rural indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism
Few studies have attempted to systematize the broader consequences of ordinary indebtedness - the inevitable other side of credit. My purpose here is to suggest four preliminary theses on the role of indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism, with special reference to the rural sphere. I argue that across time and space, credit/debt relations have not only been a key factor behind social differentiation through the control of land, labour and c…
The Hidden Consequences of Credit: An Illustration from Rural Indonesia
Interest in rural financial development has been booming, but often with a blind eye to the broader consequences. Very few studies have tackled the unintended economic, social and ecological outcomes of ordinary indebtedness, the inevitable other side of credit. This article explores some of the main 'hidden' side-effects of credit/debt relations, with special reference to the Indonesian plantation sector. I argue that widespread credit/debt rela…
What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology
Accumulation by dispossession in coastal Ecuador: Shrimp farming, local resistance and the gender structure of mobilizations
Possession Versus Property in a Tree Plantation Socioenvironmental Conflict in Southern Cameroon
Industrial tree plantations are worldwide at the origin of a growing number of conflicts between local populations and commercial planters. This case study involves the resistance of local Bulu communities against a large-scale rubber tree plantation in Southern Cameroon. The aim is to understand the institutional roots of the conflict. The methods used are historical analysis and anthropological fieldwork. The Bulu logic of possession and use-va…
Logging conflicts in Southern Cameroon: A feminist ecological economics perspective
Conflicts over industrial tree plantations in the South: Who, how and why
Conflicts over industrial tree plantations in the South: Who, how and why
The role of rural indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism
Few studies have attempted to systematize the broader consequences of ordinary indebtedness - the inevitable other side of credit. My purpose here is to suggest four preliminary theses on the role of indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism, with special reference to the rural sphere. I argue that across time and space, credit/debt relations have not only been a key factor behind social differentiation through the control of land, labour and c…
Degrowth and critical agrarian studies
Degrowth refers to a radical politico-economic reorganisation that leads to smaller and more equitable social metabolisms. Degrowth posits that such a transition is indispensable but also desirable. However, the conditions of its realisation require more research. This article argues that critical agrarian studies (CAS) and degrowth can enrich each other. The Agrarian Question and the Growth Question should be addressed in concert. While degrowth…
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Alternatives to sustainable development: What Can We Learn From the Pluriverse in Practice
Decommodification as a foundation for ecological economics
Ecological economists have emphasized the study of commodification (i.e., the development of market-based exchange and valuation) rather than decommodification processes (i.e., the degree of immunization from market dependency). This is surprising given the fact that large-scale decommodification may be our best option for a post-growth transition so dear to many ecological economists. Based on Heinsohn and Steiger's theory of ownership, we seek …
What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology
Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan
Accumulation by dispossession in coastal Ecuador: Shrimp farming, local resistance and the gender structure of mobilizations
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – Mefa and MuSiasem
Plantations, Resistance and the Greening of the Agrarian Question in Coastal Ecuador
Worldwide, industrial tree plantations are at the origin of a growing number of conflicts between local populations and commercial planters. Such conflicts - which often turn out to be 'environmental'- have largely remained understudied. By focusing on the establishment of an industrial eucalypt monoculture in a coastal Ecuadorian canton, this paper investigates the effects of the penetration of capital into the rural sphere, emphasizing the resu…
The Hidden Consequences of Credit: An Illustration from Rural Indonesia
Interest in rural financial development has been booming, but often with a blind eye to the broader consequences. Very few studies have tackled the unintended economic, social and ecological outcomes of ordinary indebtedness, the inevitable other side of credit. This article explores some of the main 'hidden' side-effects of credit/debt relations, with special reference to the Indonesian plantation sector. I argue that widespread credit/debt rela…
Basic principles of possession-based economies
The theory of ownership developed by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger crucially distinguishes between 'property' - fostering modern credit/debt contracts in all their variety - and 'possession' - regulating the material reproduction of all societies. These two authors and their increasing number of followers have shed valuable light on the dynamics of capitalism, characterized as an economy strategically driven by property, but they have had litt…
The second contradiction of capitalism
The awkward struggle: A global overview of social conflicts against private debts
Over the past two decades, indebtedness has been at the centre of the world's attention, but social conflicts against private debts have only rarely been studied. Drawing on a global database of 65 cases ranging from 1765 to 2020, we offer a preliminary glimpse at such mobilisations. We find that anti-debt conflicts seem to have increased exponentially since the early 1980s and that they have involved different social classes with various politic…
Possession Versus Property in a Tree Plantation Socioenvironmental Conflict in Southern Cameroon
Industrial tree plantations are worldwide at the origin of a growing number of conflicts between local populations and commercial planters. This case study involves the resistance of local Bulu communities against a large-scale rubber tree plantation in Southern Cameroon. The aim is to understand the institutional roots of the conflict. The methods used are historical analysis and anthropological fieldwork. The Bulu logic of possession and use-va…
From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa
An overview of local credit systems and their implications for post-growth
The Legacy of K. William Kapp
Many thanks are due to
Linking political ecology with ecological economics in tree plantation conflicts in Cameroon and Ecuador
Logging conflicts in Southern Cameroon: A feminist ecological economics perspective
Conflicts over industrial tree plantations in the South: Who, how and why
Plantations, Resistance and the Greening of the Agrarian Question in Coastal Ecuador
Worldwide, industrial tree plantations are at the origin of a growing number of conflicts between local populations and commercial planters. Such conflicts - which often turn out to be 'environmental'- have largely remained understudied. By focusing on the establishment of an industrial eucalypt monoculture in a coastal Ecuadorian canton, this paper investigates the effects of the penetration of capital into the rural sphere, emphasizing the resu…
Accumulation by dispossession in coastal Ecuador: Shrimp farming, local resistance and the gender structure of mobilizations
Possession Versus Property in a Tree Plantation Socioenvironmental Conflict in Southern Cameroon
Industrial tree plantations are worldwide at the origin of a growing number of conflicts between local populations and commercial planters. This case study involves the resistance of local Bulu communities against a large-scale rubber tree plantation in Southern Cameroon. The aim is to understand the institutional roots of the conflict. The methods used are historical analysis and anthropological fieldwork. The Bulu logic of possession and use-va…
What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology
The Hidden Consequences of Credit: An Illustration from Rural Indonesia
Interest in rural financial development has been booming, but often with a blind eye to the broader consequences. Very few studies have tackled the unintended economic, social and ecological outcomes of ordinary indebtedness, the inevitable other side of credit. This article explores some of the main 'hidden' side-effects of credit/debt relations, with special reference to the Indonesian plantation sector. I argue that widespread credit/debt rela…
The role of rural indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism
Few studies have attempted to systematize the broader consequences of ordinary indebtedness - the inevitable other side of credit. My purpose here is to suggest four preliminary theses on the role of indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism, with special reference to the rural sphere. I argue that across time and space, credit/debt relations have not only been a key factor behind social differentiation through the control of land, labour and c…
An overview of local credit systems and their implications for post-growth
Decommodification as a foundation for ecological economics
Ecological economists have emphasized the study of commodification (i.e., the development of market-based exchange and valuation) rather than decommodification processes (i.e., the degree of immunization from market dependency). This is surprising given the fact that large-scale decommodification may be our best option for a post-growth transition so dear to many ecological economists. Based on Heinsohn and Steiger's theory of ownership, we seek …
The Legacy of K. William Kapp
Many thanks are due to
A Reply to Patrick Neveling
The theory of ownership developed by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger crucially distinguishes between ‘property’ – fostering modern credit/debt contracts in all their variety – and ‘possession’ – regulating the material reproduction of all societies. These two authors and their increasing number of followers have shed valuable light on the dynamics of capitalism, characterized as an economy strategically driven by property, but they have had litt…
In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – Mefa and MuSiasem
Basic principles of possession-based economies
The theory of ownership developed by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger crucially distinguishes between 'property' - fostering modern credit/debt contracts in all their variety - and 'possession' - regulating the material reproduction of all societies. These two authors and their increasing number of followers have shed valuable light on the dynamics of capitalism, characterized as an economy strategically driven by property, but they have had litt…
Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Anti-mining conflicts and degrowth
Is there a collective alternative vision emerging from the thousands of people involved in mining conflicts worldwide? Are the people involved in such conflicts promoters and practitioners of more sustainable economies? And if they oppose predatory forms of economic growth, aren’t they the ‘natural allies’ of the degrowth movement? Examining these questions will be crucial for understanding the changing nature of commodity frontiers and their eve…
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
Degrowth and critical agrarian studies
Degrowth refers to a radical politico-economic reorganisation that leads to smaller and more equitable social metabolisms. Degrowth posits that such a transition is indispensable but also desirable. However, the conditions of its realisation require more research. This article argues that critical agrarian studies (CAS) and degrowth can enrich each other. The Agrarian Question and the Growth Question should be addressed in concert. While degrowth…
The awkward struggle: A global overview of social conflicts against private debts
Over the past two decades, indebtedness has been at the centre of the world's attention, but social conflicts against private debts have only rarely been studied. Drawing on a global database of 65 cases ranging from 1765 to 2020, we offer a preliminary glimpse at such mobilisations. We find that anti-debt conflicts seem to have increased exponentially since the early 1980s and that they have involved different social classes with various politic…
Alternatives to sustainable development: What Can We Learn From the Pluriverse in Practice
Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability
This paper explores how animistic rituals—specifically the ovoo offering in Inner Mongolia—can serve as embodied engagements with what Roy Bhaskar (1975) calls the “real”: a deeper layer of reality shaped by unseen causal and spiritual forces. By acknowledging the 'inhabitants' of this deeper layer, we contribute to the broader post-humanist, or more-than-human, turn in the social sciences and humanities. Using a sensory collaborative autoethnogr…
From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa
The second contradiction of capitalism
Economics (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)