Trust and distrust: culture finding its way into economics or the other way round?
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[1] Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research
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- Localización: Encounters and engagements between economic and cultural geography / Barney Warf (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 9789400797468, págs. 103-122
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Trust is a constituent of a broad range of social relations, such as interpersonal ties, communities, groups, classes, and societies. It is the basis for different processes within the spheres of economy and culture at varying spatial scales. The last three decades have seen neoliberal principles for organizing the economy becoming hegemonic, pervading social and cultural relations by trying to install an economic way of behaving in everyday life. Trust characterized by the logic of economic rationality has been on the rise. However, the cultural turn tells a different story: economics is something more than mere economic rationality and the role of trust within and between different spheres of society underlies economic relations. This chapter discusses how contributions to the study of trust improve our understanding of the intersections between economic and cultural geography, but also how geography’s focus on place, space, and scale contributes to the understanding of trust. This analysis points to the need to make the political dimension of trust explicit.
