S Hinchliffe
Ecologies and economies of action - sustainability, calculations and other things
Hinchliffe, S; Kearnes, MB; Degen, M; Whatmore, S
Authors
MB Kearnes
M Degen
S Whatmore
Abstract
In ecological, environmental, and urban-regeneration terms, the participatory turn and the turn to action have been written about at length in both academic and official literatures. From neighbourhood renewal to lay ecologies, people are being ‘given’ all kinds of agency in the making of economy and ecology. Yet relatively little has been said regarding the financial organisation of this new populism, which is often achieved through calculation and audit, and the framing of a return. In this paper we look at the uneasy coalition of civic action and its calculability. It focuses on the funding and running of a British Pakistani and Bangladeshi women’s gardening initiative in inner city Birmingham, England. We fuse empirical work with gardeners and funding agencies with theoretical understandings of calculation in order to argue for a mode of organisation that not only includes a responsibility to act but also a responsibility to otherness. Rather than arguing for or against calculation, we describe a more diverse ecology of action and in so doing open arguments for reconfiguring the ways in which sustainable activities are funded.
Citation
Hinchliffe, S., Kearnes, M., Degen, M., & Whatmore, S. (2007). Ecologies and economies of action - sustainability, calculations and other things. Environment and Planning A, 39(2), 260-282. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38110
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2007 |
Deposit Date | Oct 13, 2008 |
Journal | Environment and Planning A |
Print ISSN | 0308-518X |
Electronic ISSN | 1472-3409 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 260-282 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1068/a38110 |
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