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Integral Community : Political Economy to Social Commons.
Title:
Integral Community : Political Economy to Social Commons.
Author:
Lessem, Ronnie.
ISBN:
9781409446804
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Series:
Transformation and Innovation
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Prologue: A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes -- 1. Introduction: Uri Munhu Here -- 2. Welcome to the World -- 3. Integral Community: Political Economy to Social Commons -- 4. Conclusion: Structure Building and Structure Changing -- 5. References -- PART 1 ORIGINAL GROUNDING: BEING OUT OF COMMUNALLY BASED SELF-SUFFICIENCY -- Chapter 1 Uri Munhu Here -- 1.1 Introduction: The South Facing up to the North -- 1.2. Gumbo Madyirapazhe: Karanga Value Base: Immersion in Origins -- 1.3 The Baremba: Evolving Life World -- 1.4 The Actor Network: Rapoko/Chinyika/Cairns Foods/Zimbabwean Government/Trans4m -- 1.5 Towards a Democratic Community: Drawn from the Villagers' Horizontal Structures -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 African Trading -- 2.1 Introduction: The North Facing up to the South -- 2.2 Adam Smith to Karl Marx -- 2.3 Managing in Four Worlds -- 2.4 Conclusion: Towards Trans4mation -- References -- PART 2 EMERGING FOUNDATION: BECOMING A CULTURE BASED DEVELOPMENTAL ECONOMY -- Chapter 3 Renewing Communism -- 3.1 Introduction: Marx, the Bible and the Commons -- 3.2 The Enigma of Capital -- 3.3 Capital Evolves -- 3.4 What is to be Done? And Who is Going to Do it? -- 3.5 Conclusion: Unmasking the Enigma of Capital -- References -- Chapter 4 Moral Markets -- 4.1 Introduction: Casting our Minds Back to Marx -- 4.2 The Scottish Enlightenment -- 4.3 Adam Smith as Moral Philosopher and Political Economist -- 4.4 Conclusion: Towards the Big Society -- References -- Chapter 5 Social Commons -- 5.1 Introduction: Work as Life -- 5.2 The Commons and the Multitude -- 5.3 Alter-Modernity -- 5.4 The Wealth of the Poor -- 5.5 Picking Up from Where Marx Has Left Off -- 5.6 Back to the Eighteenth Century and Forward to the Twenty-First -- 5.7 Conclusion: The Death and Rebirth of the Dismal Science.

References -- Chapter 6 Mutual Society -- 6.1 Introduction: Anglo-Saxon Crisis and Renewal -- 6.2 Enter Homo Economicus -- 6.3 The New Conservatism -- 6.4 Towards a Shared Commonwealth -- 6.5 Revisiting Moral Sentiments -- 6.6 Creating Popular Prosperity -- 6.7 Locating the Social Economy -- 6.8 Conclusion: Why Red Tory? -- References -- PART 3 NAVIGATE EMANCIPATION: KNOWING KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIAL INNOVATION -- Chapter 7 Technology - Innovation - People - Systems -- 7.1 Introduction: Technological Continuity and Social Change -- 7.2 Managing Technological Innovation -- 7.3 People as Users: Diffusion of Innovation -- 7.4 Institutionalizing Innovation through Organizational Systems -- 7.5 Conclusion: Innovation Trajectories -- References -- Chapter 8 Integral Innovation -- 8.1 Introduction: Social Research and Innovation -- 8.2 Socioeconomic Innovation as a Process -- 8.3 Substantive Socioeconomic Innovation: Micro Enterprise -- 8.4 Substantive Socioeconomic Innovation: Macro Economics -- 8.5 Conclusion: Beyond New Wine in Old Bottles -- References -- PART 4 TRANSFORMATION: DOING TOWARD A LIVING ECONOMY -- Chapter 9 The Wealth of Networks -- 9.1 Introduction: Structure Building and Structure Changing -- 9.2 The Networked Information Economy -- 9.3 The Economics of Social Production -- 9.4 The Political Economy of Property and Commons -- 9.5 Justice and Development -- 9.6 The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World -- 9.7 Making Art and Commerce Thrive in a Hybrid Economy -- 9.8 Conclusion: Towards a Third Social Model -- References -- Chapter 10 Economic Democracy -- 10.1 Introduction: Releasing GENE-ius -- 10.2 Keynotes of Social Credit -- 10.3 Conclusion: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy -- References -- Epilogue - Towards Releasing the GENE-ius of Zimbabwe -- 1. Introduction: Taking CARE of Social and Economic Innovation.

2. Chinyika Origination: Towards Self-Sufficiency -- 3. Emergent BTD Foundation: Developmental Education -- 4. Da Vinci Emancipation: Social Economy and Innovation -- 5. The Transformative Effect: Networks and Democracy -- 6. Conclusion: Research, Education, Innovation, Activism -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Integral Community moves the transformation journey for enterprises and society on from the stages covered in earlier books in Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series, which describe a new macro-economic framework and which have examined alternative development with different local communities, bringing wide cultural perspectives to practical implementation of authentic or integral development. Here, the authors argue that there are two major fields of force prevailing in today's world. The one reflects our common heritage, whereby East and West, North and South are coming ever closer together - the global commons. The other reflects local and national singularity, where the notion of feeding off ancient local heritage and talent is key. They also identify four different culturally laden worldviews as Southern - humanistic, Eastern - holistic, Northern - rational, and Western - pragmatic. The enterprise and social innovation in Africa with which Lessem's co-authors are involved provides an object lesson in the sort of differentiation and integration needed in order to operate, socio-economically, with local identity and global integrity. It provides in this case a 'Southern' worldview background against which to examine communally based self-sufficiency; culturally based developmental economy; knowledge based social economy; and finally, the move towards what the authors describe as a living economy. All illustrated through a rural case, Chinyika, with which they have been intimately involved, whereby 100,000 have become self sufficient over the past five years. Integral Community should be read by academics and students of business, economics, development studies and agriculture, and by policy makers, particularly those concerned with the developing world in general and Africa in particular.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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