Bottom-up approach to sustainable development? The Economy for the Common Good between utopian visions, civic initiatives and grass-roots democratic decisions

自下而上的可持续发展方法？

• 批准号: 418795408
• 负责人: Dr. Cornelia Kühn
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/418795408?language=en
• 关键词: Bottom; up; approach; sustainable; development

In today's society, despite increasing technological development and economic prosperity, rising social and global inequality and environmental degradation is progressing and social trust and social cohesion are being eroded. The Economy for the Common Good (ECG) is a civic action movement that is trying to initiate the process of socio-ecological transformation of the economic system on a grass-roots level through the involvement of volunteers in regional groups. The manifesto of the movement is the alternative economic model developed by Christian Felber (2010), which seeks to increase the common good instead of increasing individual capital. The goal of the ECG is the establishment of a new "contrat social" (Rousseau).The study focuses on the social practices of negotiation and communication of the ECG concept by the various stakeholders. The research perspective of the project is based on empirical ethnographic science studies, with the ECG concept being considered as culturally oriented knowledge. The ECG is examined on three different levels: on the discursive level the value concepts used are explored within their historical frame of reference, their parallels with anthropological and ethical economic concepts and with current considerations on reciprocity and gift exchange are considered and their similarities with current alternative economic concepts are investigated. Furthermore criticism of the ECG concept itself is analysed. At the level of collective mobilization the ECG is taken to be a social movement which is examined on the one hand in the context of legitimizing alternative economic knowledge and in its interaction with external political, economic and civic stakeholders. On the other hand internal negotiations in the grass-roots democratic decision-making processes are considered. At the everyday level the knowledge practices of different stakeholders in different contexts and situations are explored. In particular in the negotiation and translation processes the local embedment and communication of knowledge are investigated, along with the accompanying creation of validity and coherence. The special focus is on the transformative effects on everyday life and on economic and scientific models. With the empirical results of the research project the theoretical concepts of economic action can be critically considered and new economic forms and ways of life can be conceived.

在当今社会，尽管技术日益发展，经济日益繁荣，但社会和全球不平等现象日益加剧，环境日益恶化，社会信任和社会凝聚力正在受到侵蚀。经济促进共同利益运动是一个公民行动运动，它试图通过区域团体中的志愿人员的参与，在基层一级发起经济制度的社会生态转变进程。该运动的宣言是克里斯蒂安·费尔伯（Christian Felber，2010）提出的替代经济模式，旨在增加共同利益，而不是增加个人资本。心电图的目标是建立一个新的“社会契约”（卢梭）。研究重点是心电图概念的各个利益相关者的谈判和沟通的社会实践。该项目的研究视角是基于实证民族志科学研究，心电图概念被认为是文化导向的知识。心电图检查在三个不同的层面上：在话语层面上使用的价值概念的历史参考框架内进行了探索，他们的平行人类学和伦理经济概念，并与当前的考虑互惠和礼物交换被认为是他们的相似之处与当前的替代经济概念进行了调查。此外，对ECG概念本身的批评进行了分析。在集体动员一级，公民权利运动被视为一种社会运动，一方面在使替代经济知识合法化的背景下，另一方面在与外部政治、经济和公民利益攸关方的互动中进行审查。另一方面，考虑了基层民主决策进程中的内部谈判。在日常层面上，探讨了不同利益攸关方在不同背景和情况下的知识实践。特别是在谈判和翻译过程中的本地嵌入和知识的交流进行了调查，沿着的有效性和连贯性的创建。特别关注对日常生活以及经济和科学模式的变革性影响。通过研究项目的实证结果，可以批判性地考虑经济行动的理论概念，并设想新的经济形式和生活方式。