Search Results for moral economy

... This chapter examines hydropower development on Southwest China’s Nu River. Drawing on the notion of the moral economy, I illustrate how different constituent groups—including government agencies and hydropower corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and communities facing displacement...

... engaged in particular acts because they were condemning “wrong” behavior.) This is not entirely satisfactory. After laying out the problematic of moral economies, the chapter develops a reading of a fascinating essay by the noted poet Odia Ofeimun as a window onto how moral economies operate, at least...

... transformations associated with urban neoliberalism radically undermined the preexisting social patterns—the reciprocities, obligations, and moral codes kids developed to limit competition and control pricing—that constituted the performative economy, leading to a more competitive marketplace in which kids...

... moral economy Odia Ofeimun memory ...