SpringerLink
Log in

The Beginning Is Socially and Economically the Provision of Subsistence

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Doing care and doing economy

  • 108 Accesses

Abstract

Where does economic activity begin? It has its basis in existential concern for the sustenance of life. In the transformation of the logic of caring into the rationale of doing economy, the old understanding of the domestic acquisition of subsistence is taken as a starting point. In a livelihood system a basic need of material means and of immaterial regulation and cultivation of common existence is always to be provided for. In relation to place and time, man can dispose of the means and possibilities at his or her disposal in a caring manner. This also happens through participation in the larger economic process, in which individuals and communities can act as consumers and producers and move about in an entrepreneurial way.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
EUR 32.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Chapter
EUR 29.95
Price includes VAT (Germany)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
EUR 42.79
Price includes VAT (Germany)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
EUR 53.49
Price includes VAT (Germany)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free ship** worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Baumgartner, Ruedi, und Ruedi Högger (eds.). 2004. In Search for Sustainable Livinghood Systems. Managing Resources and Change. New Delhi: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Biesecker, Adelheid, Maite Matthes, Susanne Schön, und Babette Scurrell (Hrsg.). 2000. Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften. Auf dem Weg zu einer Ökonomie des guten Lebens. Bielefeld: Kleine-Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Biesecker, Adelheid, und Sabine Hofmeister. 2006. Die Neuerfindung des Ökonomischen. Ein (re)produktionstheoretischer Beitrag zur Sozial-ökologischen Forschung. Ergebnisse Sozial-ökologischer Forschung Band 2. München: oekom.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bourdieu, Pierre. 2021. Habitat und Habitus. Visuelle Formen soziologischer Erkenntnis. Hrsg. Franz Schultheis und Stephan Egger. Bielefeld: transcript.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bowlby, Sophie, und Lind McKie. 2019. Care and caring. An ecological framework. Area, 51 (3), S. 532–539.

    Google Scholar 

  • Busch-Lüty, Christiane, Maren Jochimsen, Ulrike Knobloch und Irmi Seidl (Hrsg.). 1994. Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften. Frauen auf dem Weg zu einer Ökonomie der Nachhaltigkeit. Politische Ökologie, Sonderheft 6. München: Ökom

    Google Scholar 

  • Chambers, Robert, und Gordon R. Conway. 1992. Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Practical Concepts for the 21st Century. Institute of Development Studies Discussion Paper 296, 1992. University of Sussex: Brighton.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fullbrock, Edward (ed.). 2007. Real World Economics. A Post-Autistic Economics Reader. New York: Anthem Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2006. The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. Oxford: Blackwell Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibson-Graham, J.K., Jenny Cameron, und Stephen Healy. 2013. Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Gibson-Graham, J.K., und Ethan Miller. 2015. Ecology as Ecological Livelihood. In Manifesto for the Living in the Anthropocene, Gibson, Katherine, Deborah Bird Rose, and Ruth Fincher (eds.), S. 7–16. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibson-Graham, J.K., und Kelly Dombrowski (eds.). 2020. The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goffman, Erving. 1973. Asyle. Über die soziale Situation psychiatrischer Patienten und anderer Insassen. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gretschmann, Klaus. 1983. Wirtschaft im Schatten von Markt und Staat. Grenzen und Möglichkeiten einer Alternativökonomie. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huambachano, Mariaelena. 2018. Enacting food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru: revitalizing Indigenous knowledge, food practices and ecological philosophies. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42 (9). S. 1003–1028.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ivanova, Dara, Iris Wallenburg, und Roland Bal. 2016. Care in place. A case study of assembling a carescape. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38 (8). S. 1336–1349.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Korten, David C. 1990. Getting to the 21st Century. Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda. W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korten, David C. 2007. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. New York: McGraw-Hill.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korten, David C. 2015. Change the Story, Change the Future. A lining economy for a living earth. A report to the Club of Rome. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leyshon, Andrew, Roger Lee, and Colin C. Williams (eds.). 2003. Alternative Economic Spaces. London: Sage Publ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, Ethan, und J. K. Gibson-Graham. 2019. Thinking with interdependence. From economy/environment to ecological livelihoods. In: Thinking in the World. A Reader, Jill Bennett und Mary Zournazi (eds.), S. 313–340. London: Bloomsbury Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Morris, Carolyn, und Stephen Fitzherbert. 2017. Rethinking ‘alternative’: Māori and food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty. Allternative food networks in subaltern spaces, Marisa Wilson (ed.). S. 15–33. Abington: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften (Hrsg.). 2013. Wege Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften. Marburg: Metropolis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Petersen, David J., Daniel Willers, Esther M. Schmitt, et al. (eds.). 2019. Perspektiven einer pluralen Ökonomik. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

    Google Scholar 

  • Polanyi, Karl. 1977. The Livelihood of Man. Edited by Harry W. Pearson. New York: Academic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Polanyi, Karl. 1979. Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prince, Russell, Carolyn Morris, Matthew Henry, Aisling Gallagher, und Stephen Fitzherbert (eds.). 2021. Markets in Their Place. Context, Culture, Finance. Abingdon: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Salvini, Francesco. 2017. Instituierung und Invasion. Eine Ökologie der Sorge in Triest. In Ökologien der Sorge. Tobias Bärtsch, Daniel Drognitz, Sarah Eschenmoser, et al. (Hrsg.), S. 97–111. Wien: transversal texts, eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies.

    Google Scholar 

  • Scoones, Ian. 2009. Livelihoods perspectives and rural development. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 36 (1). S. 171–196.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Suzman, James. 2021. Work. A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots. New York: Penguin Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weber, Max. 1980. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundriss der verstehenden Soziologie. 5. Aufl., Tübingen: Mohr.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wendt, Wolf Rainer. 2015. Soziale Versorgung bewirtschaften. Studien zur Sozialwirtschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Zademach, Hans-Martin, und Sebastian Hillebrand. (eds.). 2013. Alternative Economies and Spaces. New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy. Bielefeld: transcript.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zedler, Johann Heinrich. 1731–1754. Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste, welche bishero durch menschlichen Verstand und Witz erfunden und verbessert worden. Halle und Leipzig: Zedler.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Fakultät Sozialwesen, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

    Wolf Rainer Wendt

Authors
  1. Wolf Rainer Wendt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Wendt, W.R. (2022). The Beginning Is Socially and Economically the Provision of Subsistence. In: Doing care and doing economy. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38071-7_3

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38071-7_3

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Wiesbaden

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-658-38070-0

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-658-38071-7

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation