New paper: "Beyond scarcity? Why abundance matters in a turbulent & unequal world". While both scarcity and abundance can be socially and politically constructed, scarcity has received far more attention in social and political thought. It asks if abundance can provide powerful challenges to conventional environmental governance practices as well as the logic of ‘Homo economicus’ that are increasing structural inequalities, vulnerabilities, scarcities and poor responses to climate and environmental crises, and while also highlighting non-material values such as care, time, love and wellbeing. While abundance may not always be a panacea, given huge inequalities and environment and climate breakdown, we urgently need to advance alternative praxes and new ways of living and being with each other and the planet. A focus on abundance instead of scarcity is one way forward. #Scarcity #Abundance #ClimateChange #Care #Inequality https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/140375/7/III-GJWE_Working_Paper_177.pdf 🔗 https://buff.ly/huiL62C