North, P;
Nowak, V;
Southern, A;
Thompson, M;
(2020)
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies.
Rethinking Marxism
, 32
(3)
pp. 330-347.
10.1080/08935696.2020.1780669.
Preview |
Text
Thompson_Generative Anger- From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies_AAM.pdf - Accepted Version Download (288kB) | Preview |
Abstract
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social and solidarity economy (SSE) practices sometimes reproduce, sometimes challenge, and sometimes build alternatives to forms of power that attempt to shape, obstruct, and obliterate attempts to create better worlds. The essay develops conceptualizations of social enterprise, the social economy, and solidarity economies before offering the novel concept of the antagonistic economy, arguably a site from which angry opposition to constraining power relations can generate a more productive politics of possibility. The conception of the antagonistic economy is developed by discussion of taking back labor through recovered factories and land through community land trusts.
Type: | Article |
---|---|
Title: | Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/08935696.2020.1780669 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2020.1780669 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Antagonistic Economy, Community Land Trusts, Diverse Economies, Recovered Factories, Social Enterprise |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10135719 |
Archive Staff Only
![]() |
View Item |