Possible moral ecologies, the function of everyday curation, and the experience of regions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsten Valentine Cadieux (0000-0003-0959-8152, Hamline University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451 |
| Publisher | University of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2458/v23i1.20185 |
| OpenAlex | W2604529420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Investigating the political ecologies of everyday engagements with environments—including material as well as policy and ideological interactions—requires consideration of the moral economy at play, as well as the political economy and social ecology. A.V. Chayanov (1966/1925), E.P. Thompson (1971, 1991), and Jim Scott (1976) have provided useful ways to think about moral economy. They framed moral economy as a way of enacting understandings of just commons, subsistence entitlements, and desirable economic relations based on social struggle. This framing can be particularly useful in combination with political ecology approaches to investigate 'moral ecologies.' These are society-environment assemblages that are often more aspirational than enacted, but toward which considerable effort is expended, and whose moral and ecological dynamics are functionally linked, perhaps as best illustrated in recent attention to agroecology as a powerful mechanism for ensuring rights to food (De Schutter 2011a, 2011b, 2012). Given political ecology's focus on power relations, moral ecologies that do not exercise considerable power are often overlooked by political ecologists. However, even if particular understandings may not be highly efficacious in exercising power, they may have considerable influence on relational conceptualizations. This mismatch between habitual inattention to moral ecologies and their potential importance contributes to tensions within contemporary society-environment scholarship between structuralist and poststructuralist modes of engagement. Given the value of both modes, particularly for understanding what Peet and Watts (1993) describe as liberation ecologies (and the regional discourse formations that shape them), I argue that political ecology provides useful frameworks for documenting and analyzing the socio-ecological experience of regions—in terms not only of the functions of society and environment, but also of the performance and curation of knowledge about those functions
Environmental ethics · Ideology · Moral economy · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Ecology
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Land Degradation and Society
Feminist Political Ecology
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
Land Degradation and Society
Feminist Political Ecology
On Justification
Moral Geographies
From Green Belts to Green Infrastructure
Notes on the practice of food justice in the U.S
Amenity migration, exurbia, and emerging rural landscapes
Competing discourses of nature in exurbia
Political ecology
Political ecology II
Ecological and geographical scale
Geographies and Moralities
Introduction
Imagined communities
The Theory of Peasant Co-operatives
Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies
Should we go "home" to eat
Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism
Food in the City
What does it mean to do food justice
Properly, with love, from scratch
Geographies of care
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Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Guerrilla Auditors
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |