TY - JOUR
T1 - The social economy of new rural reconstruction
AU - JIA'EN, Pan
AU - JIE, Du
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - This paper employs the concept of 'social economy' to reflect on the authors' experiences in rural reconstruction efforts in Mainland China, including work on peasant cooperatives and community-supported agriculture. In practice, the social and the economic can never be clearly separated. Economic problems, which may superficially appear to be independent, are in fact over-determined by all kinds of social and cultural factors, so a holistic perspective of 'social economy' is needed to re-embed the economic into its social context. Such a perspective can help expand the space of our practice and reflection thereon, in particular helping practitioners to understand the difficulties encountered in rural reconstruction.
AB - This paper employs the concept of 'social economy' to reflect on the authors' experiences in rural reconstruction efforts in Mainland China, including work on peasant cooperatives and community-supported agriculture. In practice, the social and the economic can never be clearly separated. Economic problems, which may superficially appear to be independent, are in fact over-determined by all kinds of social and cultural factors, so a holistic perspective of 'social economy' is needed to re-embed the economic into its social context. Such a perspective can help expand the space of our practice and reflection thereon, in particular helping practitioners to understand the difficulties encountered in rural reconstruction.
KW - new rural reconstruction
KW - perspective
KW - social economy
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6644
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857172238&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17525098.2011.615385
DO - 10.1080/17525098.2011.615385
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 1752-5098
VL - 4
SP - 271
EP - 282
JO - China Journal of Social Work
JF - China Journal of Social Work
IS - 3
ER -