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Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ( IF 1.673 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 , DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13818
Tiana Bakić Hayden 1 , Sarah Muir 2
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This article examines practices of critique and ambivalence among participants in a controversial Latin American investment scheme called the telares de la abundancia (‘looms of abundance’). While the dominant discourses about the telares construe them as predatory, participants understand themselves as knowing subjects who reject a worldview based on economic rationality and utility in favour of one based on emotional connectedness. While this emphasis on emotional connection is not unique to the telares, what is remarkable is the central role that doubt plays: the tejedoras (weavers), as they call themselves, assert themselves quite explicitly not only as critical and knowing subjects, but also as profoundly ambivalent subjects who insist upon the incommensurability of emotional connection and financial gain even as they simultaneously pursue both. This article explores how tejedoras confront and deal with their doubts by cultivating practices of ambivalence. In so doing, it foregrounds the multiplicity of people's allegiances and intuitions in contexts marked by competing epistemologies, as is the case not only in Latin America but also in much of the world where illiberalism has become a central concern. Towards that end, the article develops the concept of ‘illiberal economies’ – spaces in which participants simultaneously pursue contradictory and mutually exclusive forms of value – as a way of shedding light on broader political and economic dynamics that can seem simultaneously (and paradoxically) nonsensical and irrational, on the one hand, and manipulative and instrumental, on the other. In so doing, the article foregrounds the ambivalent dynamics that are at the heart of illiberal economies in order to open up analytic possibilities for grappling with illiberalism more broadly.

中文翻译:

非自由经济体:另类投资计划中的矛盾心理和批判

本文探讨了一项名为telares de la abundancia(“富足织机”)的有争议的拉丁美洲投资计划参与者的批评和矛盾心理实践。虽然关于telares的主流话语将它们视为掠夺性的,但参与者将自己理解为拒绝基于经济理性和效用的世界观而支持基于情感联系的世界观的知识主体。虽然这种对情感联系的强调并不是telares独有的,但值得注意的是怀疑所扮演的核心角色:tejedoras(编织者),正如他们自称的那样,非常明确地宣称自己不仅是批判性和知识性的主体,而且还是深刻矛盾的主体,他们坚持情感联系和经济利益的不可比性,即使他们同时追求两者。本文探讨了tejedoras如何通过培养矛盾心理的做法来面对和处理他们的疑虑。在这样做的过程中,它突出了人们在以相互竞争的认识论为标志的背景下的忠诚和直觉的多样性,不仅在拉丁美洲,而且在非自由主义已成为主要关注点的世界大部分地区都是如此。为此,本文提出了“非自由经济”的概念——参与者在其中同时追求相互矛盾和相互排斥的价值形式的空间——作为一种阐明更广泛的政治和经济动态的方式,这些动态似乎同时(并且自相矛盾地)荒谬一方面是非理性的,另一方面是操纵性和工具性的。这样做,
更新日期:2022-09-08
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