An Anarchist’s Wetherspoons or Virtuous Resistance? Social Centres as MacIntyre’s Vision of Practice-based Communities
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In: Philosophy of Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2008, p. 21-31.
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T1 - An Anarchist’s Wetherspoons or Virtuous Resistance? Social Centres as MacIntyre’s Vision of Practice-based Communities
AU - Finchett-Maddock, Lucy
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper uses narrative from the social centre movement in the UK to argue that social centres are examples of the MacIntyrean small communities that can virtuously resist the overbearing market influence. Looking at the contrast between rented and squatted centres, the paper argues that those that are squatted are practice-based communities, and those that are rented, are institutions. This therefore highlights the interrupting role of the market and argues that the rented centres are incompatible with MacIntyre’s ideal.
AB - This paper uses narrative from the social centre movement in the UK to argue that social centres are examples of the MacIntyrean small communities that can virtuously resist the overbearing market influence. Looking at the contrast between rented and squatted centres, the paper argues that those that are squatted are practice-based communities, and those that are rented, are institutions. This therefore highlights the interrupting role of the market and argues that the rented centres are incompatible with MacIntyre’s ideal.
KW - Property
KW - Social Centres
KW - Artistotelianism
KW - Alasdair MacIntyre
U2 - 10.5840/pom2008714
DO - 10.5840/pom2008714
M3 - Article
VL - 7
SP - 21
EP - 31
JO - Philosophy of Management
JF - Philosophy of Management
IS - 1
ER -