WHY INCONOMICS?

Why Choose

Inconomics Is Independent, Creative And Non Linear In Our Thinking

Find out more information about how + why we think like we do so you know what to expect. Inconomics utilises the subtraction philosophy i.e. we aim to provide you research, opinion and tools which don’t add to workload but help you subtract from it.

We believe that humans are only really able to focus effectively on three things. For most people that is home, work and family. In this modern age we don’t need more to read but the right things to read at the right time so Inconomics is here to provide you information on lots of built environment and real estate themes but entirely from a socio-ecological standpoint.

What does socio-ecological mean? Well it’s the merging of human systems and earth systems and takes advantage of the nested theory and the concept of Unbounded Earth where we don’t live on a passive Earth which humans do things to but rather we are just another species on this shared space.

Our Eco-Positionality Passport spotlights how we think on human systems, where we stand on the environment and how that influences our research.

A Positionality Statement is a tool spun out from the academic research approach called Radical Reflexivity. It helps us to intentionally reflect on our identity, life experiences, background, values and personality traits and mental wellbeing. This reflection can help us determine what aspect of our identity is of broader sociological interest, which can be useful in narrowing how we can best help your research interests. A positionality statement can help you to focus research on matters which are important to who we all are. In this case it’s a minor obsession with the built environment and real estate coupled to the deteriorating Anthropocene we live in today.

An Eco-Positionality Passport is totally new and totally eccentric – so very Inconomics. It is a positionality statement which is expanded to include an environmental standpoint as well as our philosophically one. This means you know exactly where your research and opinion is coming from. Each time, every time.

THE 2023 INCONOMICS ECO-POSITIONALITY PASSPORT

Our Current Eco-Positionality Passport

Our Relationship to Real Estate & The Built Environment:

(insider and/or outsider status)

TBC

Epistemological Position:

(i.e. how one views the world in terms of their philosophy, personal beliefs, theoretical influence and perspectives which guide the research)

TBC

Predetermined Positions:

(e.g., participant, as an insider or outsider, theoretical influences etc.), the research context and a reflexive opinion about how these might affect the research process. Hence, taking stock of positionality requires understanding how “one’s position in the social hierarchy vis-a-vis other groups potentially ‘limits or broadens’ one’s understanding of others” (Reid, Greaves, & Kirby, 2017, p. 48).

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Ecological Systems Position:

This means interrogating what biases you may have of the groups being studied and how your own social location may influence that bias. Consider the following questions: does your disdain for slow customer service perhaps come from your never having to work in the service industry? Or the opposite? Does your idealization of agricultural work perhaps come from your only having done non-physical city labour? By answering questions about why and how you have come to study your topic, you will be clearer about your presuppositions and forthright with your reader about your relationship to the subject matter.

Human Systems Position:

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