Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery

Geoff Goodwin
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Geoff Goodwin: School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Environment and Planning A, 2024, vol. 56, issue 3, 883-904

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed significant variation in the scale and form of decommodification across the capitalist world economy. To explore these uneven decommodification geographies this article develops a new conceptual framework that combines a critical Polanyian reading of decommodification with Latin American insights into centre-periphery structures and relations. The decommodification of land and labour in Britain (centre) and Ecuador (periphery) are then analysed from this conceptual perspective. The comparative analysis reveals significant variation in the scale and form of decommodification between the two countries during the pandemic. However, some important similarities are also observed, especially in relation to the (de) commodification of land. Here, the article draws on the corporate food regime literature to better understand similarities and differences between Britain and Ecuador. By revealing the uneven and shifting terrain of decommodification, this article makes a novel contribution to wider debates about the capitalist conjuncture and the intensifying crises of neoliberal capitalism.

Keywords: Decommodification; Karl Polanyi; land; labour; food (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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