Embodied Economies

Author : Israel Reyes
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978827875

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Embodied Economies by Israel Reyes Pdf

How do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. For Latinx Caribbean immigrants, exiles, and refugees this means abandoning Spanish, rejecting forms of communal inter-dependence, and adopting white, middle-class forms of embodiment to mitigate any ethnic and racial identity markers that might hinder their upwardly mobile trajectories. This transactional process of acquiring and trading in various kinds of material and embodied practices across traditions is a phenomenon author Israel Reyes terms “transcultural capital,” and it is this process he explores in the contemporary fiction and theater of the Latinx Caribbean diaspora. In chapters that compare works by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin Sánchez, Ángel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hernández, Dolores Prida, and Mayra Santos Febres, Reyes examines the contradictions of transcultural capital, its potential to establish networks of support in Latinx enclaves, and the risks it poses for reproducing the inequities of power and privilege that have always been at the heart of the American Dream. Embodied Economies shares new perspectives through its comparison of works written in both English and Spanish, and the literary voices that emerge from the US and the Hispanic Caribbean.

Author : V. Ryaboshlyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137477071

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Crisis And Embodied Innovations by V. Ryaboshlyk Pdf

This book introduces embodied innovations into the circle of already recognised causes of economic crises. The author shows how issues of investment, accumulation and structural change associated with embodied innovations can be used to monitor potential crisis. The author argues that crises are predictable and manageable in depth.

Author : Frédéric Basso,Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3031549708

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Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing by Frédéric Basso,Carsten Herrmann-Pillath Pdf

This book presents embodied economics as a foundational alternative to behavioral economics and other projects integrating economics and psychology inspired by the computational paradigm. The 20th century witnessed the disembodiment of economic models through the intensification of mathematization and formal abstraction in economics. Even proponents of an embodied approach to cognition, such as Hayek, paradoxically championed the abstract market order as a disembodied superhuman intelligence. In the wake of groundbreaking perspectives in cognitive and social sciences, which have helped to rethink the fundamental building blocks of economics, agency and institutions, this title takes a radical turn towards embodiment. Reinstating economics as political economy, embodied economics motivates a critique of capitalism based on the analysis of disembodiment through abstraction and reactivates key critical insights into the anthropology put forward by the young Marx about contemporary economics and its conceptualizations of money, property, and labor. Based on this analysis, the authors envision a concrete utopia for an economic order centered on human dignity and care for life on Earth. This book contributes to recent discussions about behavioral, experimental and neuroeconomics and addresses a transdisciplinary audience in the social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and the humanities.

Author : V. Nicol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137010377

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Social Economies of Fear and Desire by V. Nicol Pdf

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency which drastically nuances the commonly held view that fear has predominantly irrational, morally, or ideologically suspect effects which thwart the exercise of autonomy.

Author : W. Küpers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137460554

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Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization by W. Küpers Pdf

Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and management studies and calls from organizational practice, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization explores the fundamental and integral role of the body and embodiment in organizational life-worlds.

Author : Israel Reyes
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978827851

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Embodied Economies by Israel Reyes Pdf

Embodied Economies compares works of Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater that explore the pitfalls and successes of economic upward mobility in diasporic communities. Each chapter compares two works in a counterpoint analysis that reveals the contradictions of using Latinx Caribbean culture to get ahead in the competitive fields of education, business, entertainment, and finance.

Author : Sheila Batacharya,Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781771991919

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Sharing Breath by Sheila Batacharya,Yuk-Lin Renita Wong Pdf

Treating bodies as more than discursive in social research can feel out of place in academia. As a result, embodiment studies remain on the outside of academic knowledge construction and critical scholarship. However, embodiment scholars suggest that investigations into the profound division created by privileging the mind-intellect over the body-spirit are integral to the project of decolonization. The field of embodiment theorizes bodies as knowledgeable in ways that include but are not solely cognitive. The contributors to this collection suggest developing embodied ways of teaching, learning, and knowing through embodied experiences such as yoga, mindfulness, illness, and trauma. Although the contributors challenge Western educational frameworks from within and beyond academic settings, they also acknowledge and draw attention to the incommensurability between decolonization and aspects of social justice projects in education. By addressing this tension ethically and deliberately, the contributors engage thoughtfully with decolonization and make a substantial, and sometimes unsettling, contribution to critical studies in education.

Author : Maria Tapias
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097157

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Embodied Protests by Maria Tapias Pdf

Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. She approaches the narratives of distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of Tapias's definitive analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces. Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.

Author : Matthew Kuperus Heun,Michael Carbajales-Dale,Becky Roselius Haney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319128207

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Beyond GDP by Matthew Kuperus Heun,Michael Carbajales-Dale,Becky Roselius Haney Pdf

This book uses the metaphor “The economy is society's metabolism” as a springboard to develop a rigorous theoretical framework for a better system of national accounts which goes “Beyond GDP” and is relevant to the age of resource depletion. Society is entering a new era in which biophysical limits related to natural resource extraction rates and the biosphere's waste assimilation capacity are becoming binding constraints on mature economies. Unfortunately, the data needed for policy-makers to understand and manage economic growth in this new era are not universally available. All stakeholders need a new way to understand our economy in the context of the biosphere’s ability to provide essential natural capital, and we suggest that detailed information about materials, energy, embodied energy, and energy intensity should be routinely gathered, analyzed, and disseminated from a centralized location to provide markets and policymakers with a more comprehensive understanding of the biophysical economy. However, a firm theoretical foundation is needed before proceeding along this new path, which this book is intended to provide. After arguing that the stock of manufactured capital is an important driver of material and energy demands imposed upon the biosphere, a new accounting framework is derived from the laws of thermodynamics to reflect the fact that material and embodied energy accumulate within the capital stock of economic sectors. This framework extends the Energy Input-Output (EI-O) techniques first developed by Bullard, Herendeen, and others to estimate energy intensity of economic products. Implications from the new framework are discussed, including the value of economic metrics for policy-making, the need for physically-based rather than product-based EI-O formulations, a re-assessment of the concept of economic “growth,” and an evaluation of recycling, reuse, and dematerialization. The framework also provides an opportunity to assess an array of definitions for Daly's “steady-state economy” in relation to the ideal of a sustainable economy. The book ends with a list of steps to be taken in creating a more comprehensive system of national accounts: National accounting agencies worldwide should develop and maintain balance sheets of both natural and manufactured capital in addition to national income statements All stocks and inter-sector flows should be provided in physical as well as financial units In the US, the Bureau for Economic Analysis (BEA) should restart detailed Capital, Labor, Energy, Material, and Services (KLEMS) reporting National accounting agencies should routinely estimate the energy intensity of economic products, and all of the above should be estimated and disseminated on an annual basis.

Author : Bertin Martens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134340163

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The Cognitive Mechanics of Economic Development and Institutional Change by Bertin Martens Pdf

This book seeks to explain long-term economic development and institutional change in terms of the cognitive features of human learning and communication processes. Martens links individual cognitive processes to macroeconomic growth theories, including economies of scale and scope, and to theories of institutional development based on asymmetric information in production processes and economies of scale in enforcement technology. With considerable flair, Bertin Martens has applied the hot new area of psychological and behavioural economics to notions of growth and development and has created a unique and impressive volume.

Author : Cesar Hidalgo
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465039715

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Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo Pdf

"Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth theory." -- Financial Times What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian Cér Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order. At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynamics dictates that over time, order-or information-disappears. Whispers vanish in the wind just like the beauty of swirling cigarette smoke collapses into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets. Although cities are all pockets where information grows, they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Paris, there are dozens of places with economies that accomplish little more than pulling rocks out of the ground. So, why does the US economy outstrip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they form make use of information. Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies become distributed computers, made of networks of people, and the problem of economic development becomes the problem of making these computers more powerful. By uncovering the mechanisms that enable the growth of information in nature and society, Why Information Grows lays bear the origins of physical order and economic growth. Situated at the nexus of information theory, physics, sociology, and economics, this book propounds a new theory of how economies can do not just more things, but more interesting things.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780870832680

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The Divine Economy by Witness Lee Pdf

Author : Suma Athreye,Yong Yang,World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Disembodied Knowledge Flows in the World Economy by Suma Athreye,Yong Yang,World Intellectual Property Organization Pdf

The authors outline the main trends in the growth of disembodied technology trade vis-a-vis international licensing and the trade in research and development and technical services. They show that there is considerable heterogeneity across countries in the form of technology trade that countries specialize in and also suggest these are related to underlying appropriability conditions and intellectual property rights regimes.

Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ecology
ISBN : OCLC:36854476

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Embodied Energy Basis for Economic-ecologic Systems by Robert Costanza Pdf

Author : Joshua Farley,Deepak Malghan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783472499

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Beyond Uneconomic Growth by Joshua Farley,Deepak Malghan Pdf

This engaging book brings together leading ecological economists to collectively present a definitive case for looking beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world's ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and the science of human behavior, contributors show how economic growth itself has become "uneconomic" and adds to a ravaging of both social and ecological cohesion.