How democratic politics function within community economies, and the possibility for their practices to have wider transformational effects

民主政治如何在社区经济中发挥作用，以及其实践产生更广泛变革影响的可能性

• 批准号: 2271252
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2271252
• 关键词: How; democratic; politics; function; within

"We live in an age facing financial collapse and the breakdown of ecological systems, with electoral democracy being unable to bring about transformational change. Capitalism dominates economic discourse, allowing no room for alternatives, and the social relations that constitute economies are masked. There is an urgent need to reconfigure conceptions of value, work and the social relations that underpin them. The project I would like to research critically examines how democratic politics function within community economies, and the possibility for their practices to have wider transformational effects. In this project, I will draw together the community economies literature with the political thought of Jacques Rancière to theorize what Miller (2013) characterises as the `political moment' of community economies. This project will spark novel conversations that will develop the community economies literature. It can also present a new reading of Rancière's democratic politics. This project will involve extended periods of field world in two different sustainable communities, Solheimar Eco Village in Iceland, and Hockerton Housing Project, Nottinghamshire. These are chosen as they are well established (Hockerton Housing Project was established in 1996, Solheimar in 1930), and are therefore useful sites for examining how the political moment is sustained. Both sites have a focus on ecological sustainability, but different approaches to governance. These different approaches make for an interesting comparison. I will use ethnographic qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, focus groups and discourse analysis to unpick how democratic politics operate in the groups, and how work and value are perceived. I will also use this to understand how community is understood, and how the groups navigate difference. This project aims to theorise the political moment of community economies by asking:1) How are community economies democratic in nature?2) Can community economies open spaces where democracy exists and transform economies?3) What new forms of value, work and social relations emerge in community economies and how does this intersect with radical democracy?"

“我们生活在一个面临金融崩溃和生态系统崩溃的时代，选举民主无法带来转型变革。资本主义主导着经济话语，不允许其他选择，构成经济的社会关系被掩盖。迫切需要重新配置价值、工作和支撑它们的社会关系的概念。我想研究的项目批判性地考察了民主政治如何在社区经济中发挥作用，以及他们的实践产生更广泛变革影响的可能性。在这个项目中，我将把社区经济文献与雅克·朗西弗勒的政治思想结合起来，对米勒（2013）所描述的社区经济的“政治时刻”进行理论化。这个项目将引发新的对话，从而发展社区经济和文学。它也可以提供一种对法国民主政治的新解读。该项目将涉及两个不同的可持续社区的长期实地考察，冰岛的Solheimar生态村和诺丁汉郡的Hockerton住房项目。选择这些地方是因为它们已经建立良好（霍克顿住房项目于1996年建立，索尔海玛于1930年建立），因此是研究政治时刻如何持续的有用地点。这两个地方都注重生态可持续性，但治理方法不同。这些不同的方法构成了一个有趣的比较。我将使用民族志定性方法，包括半结构化访谈，焦点小组和话语分析，以解开民主政治如何在群体中运作，以及如何感知工作和价值。我也将用它来理解社区是如何被理解的，以及群体是如何应对差异的。该项目旨在通过以下问题理论化社区经济的政治时刻：1)社区经济在本质上是如何民主的？2)共同体经济能否打开存在民主的空间，改变经济？3)在社区经济中出现了哪些新的价值、工作和社会关系形式，这与激进民主有何交集？”