Circularity as Alterity? Untangling Circuits of Value in the Social Enterprise–Led Local Development of the Circular Economy

IF 7.2 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Geography Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI:10.1080/00130095.2021.1931109

M. Lekan, Andrew E. G. Jonas, P. Deutz

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Abstract

Abstract In recent years, the circular economy (CE) paradigm has emerged as a mainstream policy discourse having the potential to disrupt linear economic development pathways by extracting and retaining the maximum value from existing resources through their recirculation. Highlighting the diverse circuits of value implicated in local CE development, this article considers how the ecological (material) and extraeconomic (social) premises of CE thinking can be harnessed through mission-driven social enterprises (SEs). Using a case study of a SE project in Graz, Austria, which is engaged in CE activities across the textile, interior design/wood, and food sectors, it proposes a novel heuristic framework for examining the role of circuits of value in constructing alternative circular narratives and local circular economic development trajectories. In doing so, this framework positions SE as an entity entangled in a complex web of interconnected material and social relations and practices that occur across coexisting mainstream and alternative economic spaces of production, exchange, and consumption. By aligning the CE concept with circuits of value, the article further shows the importance of mapping and conceptualizing value flows and feedback loops associated with the local development of the CE in a given spatial and temporal context.

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圆形还是交替？解开社会企业的价值循环——以地方发展循环经济为主导

摘要近年来，循环经济（CE）范式已成为一种主流政策话语，有可能通过循环从现有资源中提取和保持最大价值，从而破坏线性经济发展道路。本文强调了地方CE发展所涉及的各种价值回路，探讨了如何通过使命驱动的社会企业来利用CE思维的生态（物质）和经济外（社会）前提。通过对奥地利格拉茨一个从事纺织、室内设计/木材和食品行业CE活动的SE项目的案例研究，它提出了一个新的启发式框架，用于研究价值回路在构建替代循环叙事和当地循环经济发展轨迹中的作用。在这样做的过程中，该框架将SE定位为一个纠缠在相互关联的物质和社会关系以及实践的复杂网络中的实体，这些关系和实践发生在生产、交换和消费的共存主流和替代经济空间中。通过将CE概念与价值回路相结合，文章进一步展示了在给定的空间和时间背景下，映射和概念化与CE局部发展相关的价值流和反馈回路的重要性。

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9.70

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