Considering “non-capitalist modernities”

Multiple Modernities in Bulgaria: Social Strategies of Capitalist Entrepreneurs in the Agrarian Sector

Th e article focuses on trust/mistrust relations, strategies of cooperation, and emerging confl icts in the period of establishing capitalist reforms in Bulgaria aft er 1989. In this frame, trust building, as a key challenge for a successful transformation process, is analysed as a premise for cooperation and social cohesion in the process of reforming governance, establishing local institution...

Introduction: engaged scholarship for non-capitalist political ecologies

The articles in this special section, by offering ethnographically grounded reflections on diverse strains of economic activism, begin to articulate a non-capitalocentric political ecology that we think can help scholaractivists politicize, reimagine, and recreate socio-ecological relations. In this introductory article, we offer a useful vision of how scholar-activists can engage with and supp...

Alternative Modernities for Colonial Korea

Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...

Overtakable capitalist growth paths∗

Comparing a process of laborand capital-augmenting technical change directed by capitalists’ maximization of profits with a counterfactual in which decentralized innovation decisions are governed by noncapitalist property relations, I claim that if the two economies start from the same technology and capital stock there’s a date T such that after T per-capita consumption is always strictly grea...