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Recovering CommunityAuthor: University of Glasgow, School of Social and Political Sciences
What does the word community mean to you? An homogenous group of people united by faith, sexuality or another form of identity? Or perhaps its about the place where you grew up, or the people you work with? Recovering Community is a podcast series from the University of Glasgows School of Political and Social Sciences about community; what it means, how its formed and how it is rebuilt. Anne Kerr is joined by academics, campaigners, volunteers and artists to talk about how communities respond to social and economic change, who belongs and who is excluded and what this tells us about some of our most pressing social issues. Language: en Genres: Documentary, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet
Episode 5
Friday, 10 June, 2022
What does it take to reconfigure our traditional capitalist economic structures so that people, communities and the environment come before profit? That’s the question at the heart of the wellbeing economy movement and the subject of today’s episode. Gerard McCartney practiced as a GP and trained as an economist before his current role as Professor of Wellbeing Economy at the University of Glasgow. Gerry’s work explores the connections between health outcomes, community, and our working and living environments. Gerry and Anne talk to Dr Katherine Trebeck, a political economist and wellbeing economy advocate who co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Katherine has been at the heart of the wellbeing economy movement in Scotland and explains the changes that governments and organisations can make to enable a different, more sustainable economic model. And Gerry travels to the east end to see just how successfully the wellbeing economy can work in practice. He meets Babs and Leigh from Green City Wholefoods, one of Glasgow’s longest running workers’ co-ops, where each member of staff earns the same salary, shares the profits and decisions are taken collectively. For more information: https://katherinetrebeck.com/ https://www.greencity.coop/ https://weall.org/scotland https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/gerardmccartney/
