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Take back the economy 2: how do we value work?

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michellesteggerda's avatarThe social side of capital

In my last blog I talked about Robby and Elena: two people both aged 24 but each having a completely different working life. Echoing the authors of “taking back the economy”, I wondered which bright ideas could help our Robby’s to earn a decent living and our Elena’s to achieve a better work-life balance. Based on your reactions and my thinking, I would like to argue there is a need for a changing value system in our economy. This could be done in many ways. And luckily there are already real life examples to proof this is an ongoing development. In this blog I will show a few of them.

Let’s start with Robby. He has a range of experiences and qualities. He is motivated to work for all jobs that he endorses. Yet he usually ends up with work which is not or very badly paid. His…

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Optimisme over stadslandbouw

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Esther Veen's avataronderzoekerstadslandbouw

Afgelopen voorjaar hebben collega’s en ik een online enquête uitgezet onder mensen die betrokken zijn bij stadslandbouw. 102 mensen die zich op verschillende manieren en in verschillende regio’s met stadslandbouw bezighouden, hebben onze enquête ingevuld. Doel van het onderzoek was te onderzoeken hoe betrokkenen aankijken tegen stadslandbouw. Hoe staat het ervoor? Wat is de volgende stap? En wie moet die zetten?

We vroegen respondenten welk cijfer ze de huidige stadslandbouw geven; hoe vinden ze dat de stadslandbouw ervoor staat? De antwoorden laten een piek zien bij het cijfer zes, net iets meer dan de helft van de respondenten geeft een voldoende. Door een groot aantal erg lage cijfers is het gemiddelde van de cijfers toch net onvoldoende (5,2).

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We hebben respondenten ook gevraagd hoe ze de toekomst van de stadslandouw zien; veel van hen zijn daar positiever over. Het gemiddelde cijfer ligt nu bij een 7,6 met een piek bij het cijfer acht (en, toegegeven, ook een piekje bij vijf). Meer…

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Sign in now for the course A global Sense of Place!

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A Global Sense of Place (RSO-55306) is an optional interdisciplinary course on sustainable place-based development for students from various master programmes (e.g. MDR, MES, MID, MLP, MUE, MOA, MFN). The course builds on the BSc course RSO-56806 Sociology and Anthropology of Place-shaping providing an introduction to place-based approaches in development. Knowledge of this introductory course is an advantage, but is not assumed.

The course aims to make students acquainted with an interdisciplinary and place-based approach to development. A relational place-based approach is seen as key to the understanding of interrelated rural and urban transformation processes and ergo sustainable development.

By means of this course students will achieve profound understanding in key-concepts and methods on place-based sustainable development. Work from key thinkers in sustainable place-making will be critically discussed and examined on the basis of various cases. Guest speakers are invited to reflect on place-based approaches to sustainable development and illustrate these through case studies. Ultimately students will acquire a place-based perspective on development.

Different interdisciplinary themes will be addressed such as:
• a relational approach of place and space;
• key thinkers on place and space and politics of place;
• community development
• cultural approaches of place-based development
• ‘the human dimension’, encompassing collaboration and leadership
• ‘defence’ of places and conflicts

If you are interested or want to register for this course, please send a mail before October 4th to lummina.horlings@wur.nl

Monday Sept 22: ‘Eat it all Food Market’ Leeuwenborgh

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humble harvestNext Monday,  September 22nd, Humble Harvest will organise the ‘Eat It All Food Market’ in the Leeuwenborgh canteen! Super-local, organic, delicious foods which otherwise would have been wasted, will be sold at the market for very low prices.

The food comes directly from a farmer from the other side of the river Rhine and would have been thrown away because it does not conform to supermarkets’ standard for shape and size.

The market will be held from 12.00 to 1.30pm in the Leeuwenborch canteen. Bring some coins, your own bag and sustainable it is!!