[Xmca-l] Re: Alternatives to Social Capital and Knowledge Brokering

[Simangele Mayisela]

Dear Andy

I browsed your  ethical politics paper and found it to be  moving. I realise my view of social capital has somehow been narrow as only focused on knowledge transfer – conscious or unconscious. Thanks for providing the background of the concept. At a political and economic level, it reminds me of the South African  “Xolobeni” saga, where a rural community, located on beautiful coastal  landscape with indigenous flora in the Eastern Cape is bulldozed by an Aissie mining company who “obtained” mining rights from the government under the guise that this will bring development and jobs to the community.  You can find the images and the news briefs on this social conundrum and the plight of the Exolobeni people on google  This is where the need of social solidarity becomes paramount above the idea of social capital. Thanks for sharing…will read this paper in depth.

Regards,
Simangele







From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Blunden
Sent: 07 March 2019 04:00 PM
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Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Alternatives to Social Capital and Knowledge Brokering


Social Solidarity versus “Social Capital”

https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/social.pdf

material for your brainstorming.

andy

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 8/03/2019 12:55 am, Greg Mcverry wrote:
I really enjoy the thinking behind social capital and the related idea of knowledge brokering but find the free market/enterprise thinking problematic.

Comes across as everyone is trying to gain all the time and learning gets defined sorta as a nuisance, "I guess I will teach you since you help the community"

I know that is over simplified but something been bugging me about this for a long time, simply haven't found a better alternative or formulated my thinking.

Playing with the idea of taking cognitive apprenticeships and recasting it as agentive apprenticeship to get at the bidirectional knowledge development and diffusion that occurs between both agents and networks.

Anyone have ideas? Just using email to brainstorm.
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