Thompson, Matthew;
Cator, Charlotte;
Beel, David;
Jones, Ian Rees;
Jones, Martin;
Morgan, Kevin;
(2024)
Amsterdam's circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
, Article rsae022. 10.1093/cjres/rsae022.
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Abstract
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—as a strategy for revalorising waste—presents a possible structural limit to capitalism’s further expansion. Moreover, when combined with notions of degrowth and doughnut economics, the circular economy may provide an imaginary and set of prefigurative practices that point towards a postcapitalist economy. Through a case study of Amsterdam—a city aiming to be fully circular by 2050—we examine this contradictory crossroads, problematising the idea of circularity within capitalism and exploring the potential of postcapitalist alternatives within the circular economy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Amsterdam's circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cjres/rsae022 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae022 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Capitalism, circular city, doughnut economics, urban political economy, waste-value dialectic, world-ecology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195328 |
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