The Economy: Metaphors and Models of Social Change: Metaphors and models of social change

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Abstract

Different ways of seeing the economy affect how social change is imagined and enacted through ‘the economy’. As one way of cutting into this across disciplines, intellectual traditions, and contexts, the chapter tracks three approaches that surface in public discourse, policy, activism, and scholarship: social change through the machine economy and growth of various kinds; reforming the machine economy (through green economies or circular economies); and reformatting the economy altogether (through feminist reframings, community economies, degrowth and anti-capitalist struggles). The chapter draws on a heterodox literature, with a bent towards South African examples, to illustrate the debates between these ways of seeing and enacting social change through the economy.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Social Change
EditorsRichard Ballard, Clive Barnett
PublisherRoutledge
Pages219-231
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781351261562
ISBN (Print)9780815365471, 9781032313818
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 30 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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