scholarly journals Between Conflicting Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Matthew Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Life ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Business As Usual

‘Business as usual’ in contemporary Albania takes place between different and conflicting systems of meaning and value. Drawing from ethnographic material collected in Tirana, Albania, this article examines the complexities of social and economic life in a city where distinct moral economies routinely clash with the capitalist principle of profit. Starting from the ethnographic impulse to learn how two local booksellers made sense of the contradictory systems of meaning operating in their everyday lives, the analysis shows how a grinding of discordant value systems produced the more general paradox of an ‘ordinary tragedy’.

scholarly journals Between Product and Cuisine: The Moral Economies of Food among Young Chinese People in Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-399
Author(s):  
Jamie Coates
Keyword(s):  
Moral Discourse ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Security Concerns

Trade and consumption of food in the Sino-Japanese context connects the two countries’ tense political relationship to the everyday lives of its citizens. Previous research has shown how food-related incidents have imbued Sino-Japanese relations with political and moral discourse that connects security concerns to everyday fears. This article explores how young Chinese people in Japan navigate multiple moral economies related to food. Through analysis of “products” ( chanpin/shipin) and “cuisine” ( cai/liaoli), this article shows the differing meanings of Chinese moral economies of food from the perspective of young Chinese people living in Japan. In the Sino-Japanese context, products embody more metonymic and nationalised values associated with modernity, whereas the metaphoric possibilities of cuisine afford young Chinese people to negotiate dominant moral economies of food in Japan. Using this example, I argue that greater semiotic attention needs to be paid to the multiple meanings of food and its moral economies.

Assessing the GMO debate in Turkey: The Case of Cotton Farming

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cem İskender Aydın ◽  
Gökhan Ȫzertan ◽  
Begðm Ȫzkaynak
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Cotton Production ◽  
Ecological Farming ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business As Usual

AbstractThis paper frames the GM cotton approval debate in Turkey in the context of a socio-political process in which conflicts must be resolved between competing interests and among people who hold different value systems and have different priorities. Four different cotton farming alternatives— business as usual (BAU), ecological farming (ECO), GM farming (GM), and good agricultural practices (GAP)—are assessed and evaluated via a set of environmental, social, and economic criteria chosen on the basis of an extensive review of the cotton production and genetically modified organism (GMO) literatures, and in-depth interviews with several key stakeholders and experts in Turkey. The results show that when economic concerns are considered primary, GM farming is the preferred practice. In contrast, when only the social dimension is prioritised, the ECO alternative performs best. Finally, when the economic and social dimensions are appraised together, GAP emerges as a compromise solution. This study reveals that the decision to approve GM farming is not only complex but also value-laden and interest-based.

Moral Economy Redux: Social Protests in Turkey After the 2001 Economic Crisis

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurtuluş Gemici
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
The Government

This article examines social protests following the collapse of an IMF-backed anti-inflation program in Turkey by people who lacked the associational bases to voice their political claims. Based on the pattern of protests following a similar economic crisis, one would expect protests by organized labor against the government. Yet it was largely shopkeepers and artisans who took to the streets in response to the 2001 crisis. I argue that the Turkish shopkeepers' ground-level understandings of economic processes—their moral economy—were at the origins of these protests. Furthermore, I demonstrate that organized labor's failure to mobilize resulted from the decline of associational capacity and strength of trade unions. The investigation of the Turkish shopkeeper protests shows that where capitalist production relations and a market economy threaten institutions of livelihood, moral economies can be the determining factor of a particular group's mobilization to contest rules and relations governing economic life.

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Economic Conservatism in India: From Moral Economy to Pro-business Nationalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247
Author(s):  
Adnan Naseemullah
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Agricultural Transformation ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Issue Space

Economic conservatism in India today is associated with the BJP’s embrace of markets and competition. This article argues that conservatism within the nationalist movement was founded on rejecting both the market and the planned economy, embracing instead ‘moral economy’ principles of economic life guided by social norms, and development founded on small-scale craft production. After independence, conservative nationalists, while acknowledging the need to enhance state power through industrial growth, protected the moral economies of craft-based and agrarian production. But as the Congress party fractured, farmers’ movements asserted interests in market-based agricultural transformation and liberalization shifted the issue space of economic debate, new pro-business conservatives presented a new vision based on enhancing national wealth and strength through capitalist enterprise.

Aging and mental health: Business as usual?

1979 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Smyer ◽  
Margaret Gatz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Business As Usual

Digital and Technical Developments in the Amblyopia Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (10) ◽  
pp. 1172-1176
Author(s):  
Charlotte Schramm ◽  
Yaroslava Wenner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Therapy Monitoring ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe digital media becomes more and more common in our everyday lives. So it is not surprising that technical progress is also leaving its mark on amblyopia therapy. New media and technologies can be used both in the actual amblyopia therapy or therapy monitoring. In particular in this review shutter glasses, therapy monitoring and analysis using microsensors and newer video programs for amblyopia therapy are presented and critically discussed. Currently, these cannot yet replace classic amblyopia therapy. They represent interesting options that will occupy us even more in the future.

Economic Culture of the East: China

2014 ◽  
pp. 150-160
Author(s):  
G. Lopatkin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
New Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
East China ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
Economic Culture

The article discusses the features of China’s economic culture. The author traces the genesis of the economic model of the Chinese civilization and determine its potential as an alternative to the Western one. Among the characteristic properties of the Chinese model for much of the New Age one can note technological and organizational backwardness due to the restrictions imposed on the economic life of the state-bureaucratic model of the economy. The author comes to the conclusion that the Chinese model cannot act as an alternative to the Western one.

A Realist Perspective on Contemporary "Economic Theory" (Foreword by O. Ananyin)

2006 ◽  
pp. 75-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Neoclassical Theory ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Realist Perspective

The author elaborates on methodological issues of current tendencies in neoclassical theory and demonstrates the necessity of an alternative model of science, which he calls "realist". According to this perspective, constant and regular conjunctions of economic life events should not be the main object of analysis. Rather, the author proposes to consider structures and mechanisms governing events in question. Instead of deductivism, which, as Lawson believes, is a fundamental feature of orthodox economics, the abductive method of economic explanation is proposed that entails investigation of major powers, on which any social phenomenon depends. Society is thereby regarded not as a closed, but rather as an open system.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Initial Research

The chapters in this collection explore the everyday lives, experiences, practices and attitudes of Muslims in Scotland. In order to set the context for these chapters, in this introduction I explore the early settlement of Muslims in Scotland and discuss some of the initial research projects that charted the settlement of Asians and Pakistanis in Scotland’s main cities. I then discuss the current situation for Muslims in Scotland through data from the 2011 Scottish Census. Following a short note about the significance of the Scottish context, in the final section, the main themes and issues that have been explored in research about Muslims in Scotland.

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