[cc_research] Announcing IJCCR Volume 13

[Stephen DeMeulenaere]

Announcing the publication of new research papers in the International
Journal of Community Currency Research

Volume 13 (2009)

www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/ <http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/>


Time for Each Other: Working Towards a Complementary Currency Model to
Serve the Anti-Poverty Policies of the Municipality of Lndgraaf, the
Netherlands
Miranda van Kuik

In 2007, the Dutch municipality of Landgraaf requested an investigation
into whether a community currency could support its anti-poverty
policies. The literature research assembled empirical data on scrip,
LETS and Time Banks. Their effects were evaluated against a set of
specific goals: poverty relief, provision of care, social integration
and return of long-term unemployed to the labour market. Complementary
currencies have still to prove themselves on all objectives, and the
last one is particularly hard to achieve. However, for the most part,
the systems being investigated have not been set up in a professional
way or with longer-term finances available. With these prerequisites in
place, and a formal, trustworthy organisation taking the initiative, a
complementary currency could still be a useful policy instrument. A Time
Bank-like construction would work best, with a professional broker and a
limited working area.


Change Takes Time: Exploring Structural and Developmental Issues of Time
Banking
Lee Gregory

This paper draws out key conclusions from a recent research project into
a voluntary sector time bank in the Welsh Valleys. The aim of the
research was to explore the structure and organisational issues of time
banks in relation to the development of co-production. Such an analysis
attempts to make clear how time bank development fosters the values of
co-production as is claimed by research and literature on time banks.
The argument in this paper is that whilst time banks can be set-up for a
range of purposes, not always tied to co-production, the practices and
ideas embedded in the time bank mechanisms do gradually develop the
values of co-production. However this is a slow process and requires a
successful, initial time bank pilot project to encourage further support
for expanding the practice. For those who advocate the development of
co-production this paper provides information of time bank development
which can support their efforts to promote the idea within the public
sector.


The Impact of Community Currency Systems on Gender Relations in Rural
Northeast Thailand: A Hybrid Social Audit – Gender Analysis Approach
David Walker

This paper is an initial response to calls for an investigation of the
impact of Community Currency Systems (CCSs) on gender relations in a
developing country context. It thereby proposes the question of whether
or not CCSs support existing gender relations or transform them. The
proposition is that the unique characteristics of a localised currency
may influence a variety of economic and social characteristics in rural
communities to the point where they affect the wellbeing of men and
women differently. In conclusion, the research offers three learning
points; firstly, the use of Seyfang’s (1997) Social Audit Approach
together with gender analysis frameworks do offer a viable means of
generating primary information; secondly, the two study areas show that
the most obvious effect of the CCS on gender relations regards the
strengthening of women’s social capital; thirdly, that the
implementation of a CCS can positively influence gender relations in
other areas and should be more fully investigated.


and a book review of:

Stiansen Endre and Guyer Jane I. (1999) Credit, currencies and culture:
African financial institutions in historical perspective
Reviewed by Tite Ngoumou

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Dr Gill Seyfang
RCUK Academic Fellow
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ

tel: +44(0)1603 592956
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*** NEW BOOK ***
The New Economics Of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change by Gill
Seyfang (2009), Palgrave Macmillan.

Editor, International Journal Of Community Currency Research
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/ <http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/>
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