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Las economías alternativas se presentan comúnmente como un resultado de la voluntad, o como una reacción espontánea y acumulativa a un impacto, ya sea la crisis o el neoliberalismo en general. Su destino es transformar el mundo, ya sea gradualmente o a través del choque de modelos. Por otro lado, las perspectivas críticas generalmente las ven como un producto del neoliberalismo, o incluso del capitalismo: condenadas a la cooptación y la marginalidad, o simplemente encarnando formas, prácticas y subjetividades neoliberales. En esta tesis, expongo una explicación alternativa a cerca de por qué y cómo emergen y se desarrollan las economías alternativas, así como una perspectiva diferente a través de la cual evaluar su potencial transformador. Investigo estas cuestiones examinando las economías alimentarias alternativas en la crisis económica posterior a 2008. Con el fin de obtener una comprensión profunda de los acontecimientos de la vida real incluidos en el contexto, baso mi investigación en dos estudios de caso: los nuevos campesinos agroecológicos en el País Vasco (España) y las distribuciones de alimentos solidarios "no intermediarios" en Grecia. Basada en investigación de campo, herramientas de ecología política y soberanía alimentaria, y sobre las ideas de Bensaïd y Gramsci sobre política, esta tesis trata de cuestiones conceptuales y prácticas relacionadas con la resistencia al neoliberalismo, las estrategias emancipadoras y la agencia política. Mi argumento principal es que las economías alimentarias alternativas pueden ser una parte integral de las estrategias activistas que participan en las luchas por la hegemonía, que buscan producir sujetos críticos y activos y, en última instancia, mover a los subalternos a una posición de liderazgo. En el País Vasco, la desnaturalización de las ideas y prácticas hegemónicas sobre el agronegocio y la normalización de las alternativas campesinas es un enfoque clave de la estrategia de los pequeños agricultores de construir alianzas y un amplio movimiento social que ...

Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552 ; Why and how do alternative economies emerge, how do they develop and what is their contribution, if any, to transformative politics? Alternative economies proliferate in the countries worse hit by economic crisis and austerity, such as Spain or Greece. Yet the existing literature is stuck in a counter-productive division between celebration and critique. We move beyond this division applying philosopher Daniel Bensaïd's understanding of politics to two alternative food economies, one in the Basque Country and one in Greece. We illuminate the activist strategies and specific conjunctures within which the two alternatives emerged and explain how they develop in the face of political-economic barriers. Alternative economies, we conclude, can be transformational when they are inserted in activist strategies directed to extend conflict, social struggles and challenge the capital-state nexus. ; ¿Por qué y cómo emergen las economías alternativas, cómo se desarrollan y de que manera contribuyen, si es que lo hacen, a la política transformadora? En los países más afectados por la crisis económica y las políticas de austeridad, como España o Grecia, proliferan experiencias de economías alternativas. Sin embargo, la literatura no ha discutido más allá de las visiones o bien celebradoras o bien críticas de las economías alternativas, generando una división contra-productiva para la análisis. En este artículo vamos más allá de esta división, aplicando la comprensión de política de Bensaïd a dos economías alimentarias alternativas, una en el País Vasco y una en Grecia. Mostramos las estrategias de activismo y coyunturas específicas dentro de la cuales surgieron ambas alternativas y explicamos cómo se desarrollan frente a barreras institucionales y económicas. De esta manera, concluimos que las economías alternativas pueden ser transformadoras cuando se insertan en estrategias activistas dirigidas a ampliar los conflictos y las luchas sociales desafiando el nexo entre capital y estado.

"The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the scholarly and political debates surrounding the environmental dimension of austerity policies that has thus far escaped academic, policy and media attention. By contributing to a better comprehension of the full socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book highlights the importance of considering environmental issues when analysing austerity and in designing alternative responses to economic crisis in the future. Mobilising detailed case studies from across the western world, the volume documents the ways in which austerity impacts global and local ecologies and peoples, and shapes and gives rise to environmental conflicts and new forms and practices of social mobilization and resistance. By bringing together theoretical debates and rigorous case-study analysis, the book proposes the concept of 'the political ecology of austerity' as an academic and policy relevant term, and political ecology as an appropriate method of analysis that can inform our understanding of the significant shift in environmental protection policies and growth ideologies that we have witnessed over the past decade in the western world at the aftermath of the economic crisis. The Political Ecology of Austerity reveals austerity as neither a "rational" panacea for economic recovery, nor an "irrational" policy that further deepens the economic crisis. Rather, the volume discloses austerity to be a globalised set of tools not only for budgetary discipline, but also for socio-environmental discipline that justifies the continuation of growth-focused global environmental degradation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of social and political sciences, environmental studies, urban studies and political ecology"--

AbstractExclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE‐Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food sovereignty to establish political bonds between those marginalised by neo‐liberalism, helping to construct political identities and enact forms of subaltern agency that challenge uneven power relations and geographies. We argue that 'solidarity from below' is key in building an emancipatory rural politics rooted in class‐based alliances, intersectionality, and internationalism as well as non‐exclusionary notions of sovereignty. The article provides theoretical and empirical insights on what constitutes an emancipatory politics of food sovereignty that has the potential to act as a counterforce to right‐wing populism.

First published: 06 July 2019 ; Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE‐Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food sovereignty to establish political bonds between those marginalised by neo‐liberalism, helping to construct political identities and enact forms of subaltern agency that challenge uneven power relations and geographies. We argue that 'solidarity from below' is key in building an emancipatory rural politics rooted in class‐based alliances, intersectionality, and internationalism as well as non‐exclusionary notions of sovereignty. The article provides theoretical and empirical insights on what constitutes an emancipatory politics of food sovereignty that has the potential to act as a counterforce to right‐wing populism.