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Value, (use) values, and the ecologies of capital: On social form, meaning, and the contested production of nature.
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Progress in Human Geography . Oct2021, Vol. 45 Issue 5, p1105-1125. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper connects hitherto distant strands of literature to contribute to the ongoing turn to value theory in socio-ecological studies. Starting from Marx's understanding of value as social form, I revisit Neil Smith's contribution to the question of value and nature and argue for a reassessment of the internal relations between valorisation and the 'vernacular' dimensions of socio-ecological reproduction. I approach this problem through Bolívar Echeverría's reconstruction of the category of use-value and his understanding of the pivotal role it plays in Marx's critique, which allows for an open and non-reductive account of the subsumption of socio-ecologies under capitalism as contradictory entanglements of abstraction and meaning. The paper mobilises these insights alongside Marxian-inspired anthropological theories of value – the work of Terence Turner and David Graeber – in order to sketch elements for a symbolic-materialist framework to approach the question of value in its cultural-moral register, its relation to value as economic form, and issues of moral economy and ecology under capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIAL ecology
*SOCIAL capital
*SOCIAL values
*POLITICAL ecology
*CAPITALISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03091325
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153336390
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520947473