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The application of this logic to land and farming marked a fundamental transformation in human history. It meant that, for the first time, people’s lives were governed by the imperatives of intensifying productivity and maximising output.23 No longer was production about satisfying needs, no longer about local sufficiency; instead, it was organised

Observers who had previously considered the modes of subsistence and division of labour in North American societies to be trivial matters, or of at best secondary importance, now began assuming that they were the only thing that really mattered. Everyone was to be sorted along the same grand evolutionary ladder, depending on their primary mode of a

In the dogma of neoclassical economics, redundancy is to be avoided as ever larger economics of scale are used to increase the profits of a few to the systemic detriment of many.

World Institute for Development Economics Research, in the late 1980s, for a project whose core question was how the macro-economy would differ if we were to take ecological limits seriously.

David Graeber, naturalmente, é de outra opinião, tendo em seus últimos textos insistido sobre a necessidade de repensar a história humana, recolocando no centro da análise as múltiplas experiências negligenciadas de descentralização igualitária e de federalismo horizontal, que uma história oficial com foco no Estado central coercitivo e hierárquico

When Chief Oren Lyons of the Iroquois Onondaga Nation was invited to address students at the University of Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources, he highlighted this risk. ‘What you call resources we call our relatives,’ he explained. ‘If you can think in terms of relationships, you are going to treat them better, aren’t you? … Get back to the re

Hayley Newman,

Les universalistes se concentrent sur l’agriculture et l’Eurafrique pour mener au sein du GATT l’attaque contre l’intégration européenne. Loin d’être anodins, les affrontements sur les bananes, le café et le cacao marquent le début de décennies de lutte des néolibéraux de l’école de Genève contre ce qu’ils percevaient comme la persistance de l’empi

Farming, after all, replaces natural ecosystems with human-made ecosystems that are engineered to yield far more foodstuffs per unit area. The plant and animal species not cultivated on farms are the sure losers, as humanity encroaches on the habitats of other species that are not directly conducive to food production or that compete directly with