Relational Anthropology – Economy

Chapter Seventeen discusses the economy as a relational system, emphasizing the importance of trust, relationships, and narratives over traditional notions of scarcity and competition. It reframes …

Survivor Literacy

This names a quiet kind of resistance.

When a political economy depends on manufactured insufficiency, taking stock of what’s already present becomes a way of loosening its hold. Not to deny difficulty — but to stop feeding the reflexes that keep us running.

Unlearning often begins by noticing what we’ve been taught to overlook.

Full reflection for this week here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144

#JoannaMacy #LearningToUnlearn #RelationalEconomy #PostCapitalistCare #CollapseAwareness

This names the scale where real economic change actually happens.

Not in abstraction or ideology, but in companionship — people choosing to stay with the work of living differently, together. An economy rooted in sustaining life requires relationship, patience, and shared practice.

This is fair share ethics as lived experience, not theory.

#BenKadel #FairShareEthics #RelationalEconomy #CommunityCare #Farmastery

What if fear is feedback? And what if feedback becomes flow?

Ben’s new piece on moving from ledgers to living rhythm.

👇 Read + let your nervous system respond:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary-and-the-ledger

#RelationalEconomy #SystemsChange #Guilds #Reciprocity #OutgrowingModernity

The Canary and the Ledger

A note on fear, reciprocity, and learning to transform ledgers into living rhythm.

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Collapse isn’t theoretical anymore.
Our last contract is ending. The work only continues with real support.

If relational resilience matters to you, this is the moment to help sustain it.

Please read the attached article for more.

https://open.substack.com/pub/emotus/p/courage-in-the-cracks?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#RelationalEconomy #PostCollapsePractice #MutualAid #EmergentFuture

Courage in the Cracks

An invitation to the work of re-making an economy that sustains life and living things

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We were taught to call it the market, but it was always a negotiation with dragons.
What grows when we nurture belonging and care together?

#Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #QuietRevolution #RegenerativeCulture #PostCapitalism #RelationalEconomy #CompostTheSystem

https://open.substack.com/pub/emotus/p/the-great-withholding?r=p48vo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Great Withholding

It's a feature; not a bug

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