Making Time: Exploring the emergent times of alternative economies

激发这个项目的核心问题是，“可持续经济的时间是什么时候？”也就是说，如果工业资本主义经常与时钟时间联系在一起，而晚期资本主义则与加速的24/7网络时间联系在一起，那么建立新的替代经济的尝试是否可以被理解为创造新的时间？在从2008年经济危机中迅速复苏的任何希望都越来越站不住脚的背景下，人们对新自由主义资本主义模式的替代品产生了爆炸式的兴趣。新经济学的支持者关注合作关系的潜力，而不是基于竞争的关系，他们正在探索礼物经济、点对点模式的潜力、共享消费、众筹和重新发现合作模式。重要的是，这项工作的大部分借鉴了历史模式的灵感，因此提供了一个重要的例子，关注未来主题的重点是“通过过去思考”。也有迹象表明，这种对过去的重估与时间观念的更广泛转变有关。这包括对慢食运动（包括慢食、慢城市、慢科学和慢钱）的兴趣，但也可以从对非线性变化模型的社会干预的思考转变中看到，例如在过渡城镇运动中可以看到。为了探索这个问题是否有可能发展成一个更大的研究项目，项目团队将制作各种资源，这些资源将有助于在考虑时间和替代经济时确定关键问题。这将包括制作一些案例研究，开发一个访谈系列，并探索存档材料的潜力，以阐明当前改变主导经济和时间结构的尝试。作为其中的一部分，我们也有兴趣探索可能用于研究指导社会行为者的通常隐含的时间概念的方法范围。为了吸引更多关注这些问题的人，我们将尽可能在我们的项目网站上提供我们所有的材料。我们还将围绕项目中提出的问题举办三场活动。最后，虽然这个项目的核心问题才刚刚出现，但它已经成功地汇集了一些极具影响力的项目合作伙伴，包括：英国合作社、新经济基金会、过渡网络和永续农业协会；以及可持续经济领域的顶尖学者，包括凯瑟琳·吉布森（J.K. Gibson- graham饰）和莫莉·斯科特-卡托；以及环境人文学科，包括黛博拉·伯德·罗斯和奈杰尔·克拉克。

The central question that motivates this project is, 'What is the time of a sustainable economy?' That is, if industrial capitalism is often linked with clock time, and late capitalism with a speeded up, 24/7 networked time, is it the case that attempts to build new alternative economies could be understood as making a new time? In a context where any hope of a speedy recovery from the 2008 economic crisis is increasingly untenable, there has been an explosion of interest around alternatives to the neoliberal capitalist model. Focusing on the potential of collaborative relationships, rather than ones based on competition, proponents of the new economics are exploring gift economies, the potential of the peer-to-peer paradigm, shared consumption, crowd-funding and rediscovering cooperative models. Importantly, much of this work draws on historical models for inspiration and thus provides an important example of the Care for the Future theme's focus on 'thinking forward through the past'. There are also indications that this re-valuing of the past links into broader shifts in senses of time. This includes an interest in the Slow movement (including Slow Food, Slow Cities, Slow Science and Slow Money), but can also been seen in shifts in thinking about social interventions in terms of non-linear models of change, such as can be seen in the Transition Towns movement. In order to explore whether this issue has the potential to develop into a larger research project, the project team will be producing a variety of resources that will help set out the key issues at stake when thinking about time and alternative economies. This will include producing a number of case studies, developing an interview series and exploring the potential of archived material to shed light on current attempts to shift dominant economic and temporal structures. As part of this we are also interested in exploring the range of methods that might be available for studying the often implicit conceptualisations of time that guide social actors. In the interests of engaging a broad range of people concerned with these issues, we will make all our materials available on our project website where possible. We will also hold three events around issues raised in the project. Finally, although the issue at the heart of this project is only just emerging, it has already succeeded in bringing together a number of highly influential project partners, including: Cooperatives UK, the New Economics Foundation, the Transition Network and the Permaculture Association; as well as leading academics in the area of sustainable economics, including Katherine Gibson (J.K. Gibson-Graham) and Molly Scott-Cato; and the environmental humanities, including Deborah Bird Rose and Nigel Clark.