scholarly journals Eclipsed by the halo: ‘Helping’ brands through dissociation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Ann Richey
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
Short Commentary ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Ethical Obligations

‘Helping’ distant others through ‘Brand Aid’ humanitarianism may be one of the most successful dissociational branding practices of all. In this short commentary, I argue that humanitarian ‘helping’ itself can become a branded commodity, as understood by Ibert et al. (2019). I draw on the dissociational framework to reconsider the concept of ‘brand aid’ as a link between ethical consumption, international development, and the commodification of humanitarianism. In brand aid, the ‘ethical’ action proposed by a consumption choice triggers the ‘helping’ of distant and disengaged Others. This results in reshaping the real or imagined ethical obligations across networks of solidarity, where dissociational symbolic value moves from consumption back to production and is deflected onto suffering Others. In these chains of value, the conditions of production become eclipsed by the halo of helping through consumption. Ethical consumption is becoming less possible, humanitarianism is increasingly commodified, and ‘partnerships’ meant to alleviate global suffering are becoming more complicated than ever before. Cultural economic geography can deepen our knowledge of how maintaining inequalities can produce surplus value through ‘helping’, and how this is embedded in strategic and habitual forms of dissociation from global ills.

scholarly journals Positioning and ‘doing’ geographies of dissociation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Ibert ◽  
Martin Hess ◽  
Jana Kleibert ◽  
Felix Müller ◽  
Dominic Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Political Economic

Inspired by five commentaries on our forum article, in this response article we elaborate on three points related to geographies of dissociation, namely positioning dissociation, dealing with plurality and moving from agenda-setting to empirical research. In order to assess the validity of critique elaborated in the commentaries, we specify the contribution we seek to make. Geographies of dissociation aim to contribute to a strand of cultural economic geography that has become increasingly interested in the social construction of symbolic value but that still lacks a conceptual vocabulary for addressing the loopholes and missing links in these relational webs and their related geographies. We explain how geographies of dissociation build on pluralism without ignoring epistemological frictions. Furthermore, we discuss how geographies of dissociation might inspire political economic approaches and future empirical research.

A colonial take on island life

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil McDermott
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Real World ◽  
Academic Resilience ◽  
Market Model ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
The Real

Peck’s (2012) reaction to the colonizing impulse of economics is a call to consolidation of economic geography, better connecting diverse sites of inquiry. This appears to be a reaction to the current incursion of orthodoxy in the form of the New Economic Geography into the domain of the old economic geography. This incursion carries with it the ideological eminence of the market which oversimplifies the nature of exchange and consequently obscures the processes which shape places. I question Peck’s proposition. From an applied perspective our understanding of the real world benefits from the heterogeneity of economic geography. Academic resilience comes from diversity. As a result, economic geography already provides a strong and grounded basis for resisting the monotheism of orthodox economics. (I also question the use of the island life analogy as a didactic device in a critique of a similar device, the neoclassical market model.)

The transformation from value determination to value realization: the logical dilemma of the Okishio theorem

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengsheng Wang ◽  
Bangxi Li ◽  
Shan Gu
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
The Real ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Value Determination ◽  
Value Realization ◽  
Rate Of Profit

PurposeDifferent from Marx's analysis of the dialectical relationship between the production and realization of surplus value, the Okishio theorem only shows one aspect of the contradictory movement of the total social capital, that is, the reverse effect of the realization of surplus value on the production of surplus value.Design/methodology/approachThe production of surplus value and the realization of surplus value are simplified into one process. This simplification eliminates the contradiction between the production and realization of surplus value, and the antagonistic contradiction between accumulation and consumption and the antagonistic production-distribution relationship in capitalist society are naturally covered up.FindingsTherefore, it cannot explain the actual expansion way of the falling general rate of profit as the historical development law of capitalism. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the Okishio theorem places the analysis of the general rate of profit back into the social reproduction model with department equilibrium, which points out the significance of wage income to the realization of surplus value and outlines the macro mechanism of the realization of surplus value reacting to the production of surplus value. It also strongly promotes the research progress of the law that the profit rate tends to decline.Originality/valueThe mistake of the Okishio theorem is that the exchange process in the labor market forms the real wage rate. It determines the production price of wage goods, which thereby determines that the production price of capital goods and general rate of profit, the production of surplus value and realization of surplus value are simplified into the same process, and only the value that can be realized is the real value.

scholarly journals Discourses of FLEGT and REDD + Regimes in Cameroon: A Nongovernmental Organization and International Development Agency Perspectives

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Mbatu
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Environmental Negotiations ◽  
Critical Issues

This paper applies the international environmental negotiations framework (IENF) and the multiple streams framework (MSF) to analyze the influence of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and International Development Agencies (IDAs) in the development and implementation of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade agreement (FLEGT) and the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) regimes in Cameroon. Deforestation, forest degradation, and illegal logging are critical issues in forest management in many forest-rich countries around the world. In attempt to curtail illegal logging, global forest governance in the past few years has witnessed the development of a number of timber legality regimes including FLEGT. In the same light, the international community has recently seen the emergence of the REDD+ regime to fight against global warming and climate change. Based on sixty-eight interviews in Cameroon with representatives of NGOs and IDAs, government officials, the timber industry, and members of forest communities, as well as eleven informal conversations, and more than sixty documents, the paper finds that NGO and IDA influence on the FLEGT and REDD+ regimes in Cameroon has been growing in three areas: stakeholder participation, project development, and institutional development. Thus, the increasing influence of NGOs and IDAs will pave the way for future interventions on social, cultural, economic, and environmental issues, including land tenure, carbon rights, benefit distribution, equity, Free, Prior and Informed consent, legality, and stakeholder process, related to the FLEGT and REDD+ regimes in Cameroon.

3. National and international developments

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Moon
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Development ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Corporate Social

‘National and international developments’ compares national approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly between the USA and Europe, but also within Asia and Africa, and in so doing also identifies factors in the international development of CSR among these and other countries. CSR was first established in the USA, where the concept of specific company level responsibilities emerged both as a management and an academic concept, reflecting related cultural, economic, and political themes. The concept has not been simply exported; rather it has been adapted to different national ethical and regulatory frameworks in which assumptions and systems of responsibility are framed.

Economic Geography and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene: A Rejoinder

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Gibson-Graham ◽  
Jenny Cameron ◽  
Stephen Healy ◽  
Joanne McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Ethical Action

scholarly journals A Critical Recuperation of Watsuji’s Rinrigaku

Philosophia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleardo Zanghellini ◽  
Mai Sato
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Ethical Obligations

AbstractWatsuji is recognised as one Japan’s foremost philosophers. His work on ethics, Rinrigaku, is cosmopolitan in engaging the Western philosophical tradition, and in presupposing an international audience. Yet Watsuji’s ethical thought is largely of niche interest outside Japan, and it is critiqued on the ground that it ratifies totalitarianism, demanding individuals’ unquestioning subordination to communal demands. We offer a reading of Rinrigaku that, in attempting to trace the text’s intention, disputes these arguments. We argue that Rinrigaku makes individual autonomy central to ethical action, despite the fact that its treatment of coercion may lead one to think otherwise; that it does not reduce ethical obligations to whatever demands any given society imposes on its members; that it draws a distinction between socio-ethical orders that are genuinely ethical and those that are not; and that, in insisting on the grounding of individuals in the Absolute, it makes adequate room for individuals’ resistance to unjustifiable socio-ethical demands.

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