#9902. Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace: The Changing Political Economy of ‘Mutual Benefit’

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This article develops a diagnostic lens to make sense of the still baffling development of a ‘humanitarian marketplace’. Ambivalently hybrid initiatives such as volunteer tourism, corporate social responsibility or even fair trade do not strictly obey a distributive logic of market exchange, social reciprocity or philanthropic giving. They engender a type of ‘economy’ that must be apprehended in its own terms. The article argues that the large-scale collaborative effects of such a dispersed market can be theorized without resorting to the classical biopolitical move of simplified agency/holistic reification.
Keywords:
biology; biopolitics; Foucault; gift; market; symbiosis

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