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 language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook of Social Change |
Editors | Richard Ballard, Clive Barnett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219-231 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781351261562 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780815365471, 9781032313818 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 30 2022 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences