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This paper elaborates an analytical template to problematize the politics of legal strategies and rights. In the literature, scholars have been arguing that courts have an individualizing effect on collective struggles, or that (human) rights constitute neoliberal subjects. Yet, it is possible to open this theoretical understanding to further complexities: the inclusion of movements into certain governmentalities may have positive effects for their struggle. The discussion follows two main...

Karl Polanyi's main thesis is the effective separation of society and economy, placing the economy above the society. This artificial separation will be carried out by a series of theoretical tools and mechanisms -the introduction of fictitious goods and economic rationalism as a social premise- that will blind an overall view of the social panorama, focusing only on the economic aspects of it, causing that way, an unprecedented human crisis. (English)

El artículo presenta un discurso del autor en la Conferencia de la Sociedad de Postgrado de Economía de la Universidad de Colombia, Nueva York, en 1950, acerca del análisis institucional a las ciencias sociales. Comenta sobre la relación entre tales ramas de las ciencias sociales como la historia, la economía y la antropología. ENG: The article presents a speech by the author at the Conference of the Graduate Society of Economics of the University of Colombia, New York, in 1950, about the...

En el presente trabajo mostraremos que la filosofía liberal operó en muchas ocasionesa través de un esquema teleológico, desde el cual entendía que la espontaneidad delmovimiento histórico conducía de forma natural hacia una economía de mercados libres.Semejante interpretación tenía que presuponer otra controvertida tesis, a saber, que lascategorías que informan la racionalidad práctica dentro de una sociedad de mercado no sonuna simple contingencia histórica, sino que responden a la...

This study approaches Aristotelian reflections on economy through the eyes of Karl Polanyi, as he resorts to the Greek philosopher to find useful elements when building a profound criticism of the modern market society. Aristotle intuited the uncertain future of a social order devoured by economic relations expanding at a hypertrophic rate. In his time, indeed, this was only a potential threat —he never saw the effective culmination of anything like what we are seeing today—. But he was...

In the last two decades, Fairtrade International has consolidated as the largest fair trade certifier in the world. Much of its growth has involved the expansion of its practices from exclusively certifying cooperatives of smallholder farmers to regulating agroindustries and nonagricultural companies. In hired labor contexts, Fairtrade claims to improve labor and environmental conditions and promote local development and many researchers praise Fairtrade for "re-embedding" economic relations...

¿Cómo es posible que un libro escrito hace setenta años despierte hoy un renovado interés y que sirva para hacer mejores diagnósticos sobre la crisis económica y sus posibles alternativas? En este texto trataremos de dar respuesta a este interrogante, mostrando los elementos que hacen de la obra de Polanyi un buen punto de partida para observar la crisis de legitimidad política y los problemas de relación entre economía de mercado y sistema político. La crítica de Polanyi a la naturalización...

This article examines from a care approach the social and institutional responses to the development of the market economy in the European context. Studying this long period -which Polanyi called the double movement- is relevant because it constitutes the historical process by which the interests of the market, the logic of profits and its social and scientific naturalization come to dominate. Since then, the importance of care work in people's life, the reproduction of the labour force, and...

Karl Polanyi's critique of market society is a very powerful tool for understanding our current social reality. It helps us to formulate a creative and purposeful proposal that contributes to build a just, equitable, and more humane society, that would be committed to the future life on the planet. A comparison between the society criticized by Polanyi and ours, leads us to discover the validity of his basic concepts and his method for the preparation of a new critical discourse that not...

El artículo se centra en la vida y obra del historiador Karl Polanyi, quien escribió el libro "La Gran Transformación", en 2014 y también discute la investigación realizada sobre la vida económica de las sociedades primitivas por Polanyi.

Using Karl Polanyi's analytical instrument, I argue that the current withdrawal of the industrialized powers and the emergence of alternative policies in Latin America are determined by the crisis of the neoliberal model. The polarity between democracy and the market, observed since the beginnings of liberal capitalism, has deepened since the inter-war period due to the appearance of so-called "mass democracy." Since that period, foreign policies of industrialized countries have derived from...

The present article is a critical reading of the most important modern interpretations on Aristotle's economic writings. Firstly, the debate between the “primitivists" and the “modernists" (headed by Rodbertus, Bücher and Meyer) will be studied. Then, the readings of Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi and Moses Finley, will be analyzed, considering these authors as the most renowned commentators of the Aristotelian economical legacy. (English)

In 1992 the construction of the Urra I hydroelectric begins, one of the most ambitious energy projects in the recent history of Colombia. Located in the inhospitable jungle region of High Sinú -northwest of the Andean territory- the environmental license granted by government entities ignored the ecological and environmental impacts the work would entail, and also failed to recognize the presence of the emberákatio indigenous people, whose constitutional rights were violated. Following the...

Using the work of Karl Polanyi as its axis, this study attempts to sketch a criticism of economicism and of the society that produces it, a society launched on a historical cultural path that may well be understood as a gradual economic totalization of human life. That is the critical path which will be posed here, if only in an embryonic manner.

The article discuss the characteristic of the current neoliberalism to understand it as a changeable and complex project whose economic and political sustainability is continuously reinvented and whose governance and spatiality is in need of being understood differently, if a viable alternative is to be constructed. Taking the recent neoliberal crisis as a point of departure, it discusses three main and interrelated aspects: firstly, the polymorphic characteristics of neoliberalism as a...

Contents of book: Primera parte: Karl Polanyi y su obra: Actualidad de Karl Polanyi / Jean-Louis Laville. Karl Polanyi : su vida y época / Marguerite Mendell y Kari Polanyi Levitt. Karl Polanyi y la otra economía en América Latina / José Luis Coraggio -- Segunda parte: Los ensayos de Karl Polanyi: El lugar de las economías en las sociedades (1957) ; La economía como proceso instituido (1957) ; Aristóteles descubre la economía (1957) ; Feudalismo primitivo y feudalismo de la decadencia...

El Japón y la República de Corea acometieron a finales de los años noventa una serie de reformas del mercado de trabajo que se han presentado muchas veces como meramente flexibilizadoras. Sin embargo, el autor sostiene —sobre la base del concepto de «doble movimiento» de Polanyi— que los dos conjugaron las medidas liberalizadoras con otras en pos de la estabilidad social. Tras estudiar las leyes adoptadas por uno y otro para reformar su mercado de trabajo y atenuar la dualidad del mismo,...

La formación profesional ocupacional (FPO) se ubica en una encrucijada de problemáticas que analizaron tanto Karl Polanyi como Max Weber y Michel Foucault. Por un lado, el papel fundamental que desempeñan los mercados autorregulados en el nuevo gran cambio que significa la globalización suscita un movimiento contraprotector del que participa esta capacitación para el empleo. Por otro, respalda el desarrollo de la organización racional capitalista, la cual a su vez implica su racionalización....

The purpose of this work is to analyze the Karl Polanyi’s conceptions about the pre-capitalist-markets, especially his revision of the categories of trade, money and market. In first place, we present a critical examination of the fundamental ideas of The Great Transformation, where his later reflections about pre-industrial societies are ground. Using some basic categories of the critique of political economy, we treat to show certain methodological and conceptual limits of his proposal....