Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world. Yet there is a danger that the debate about alternatives may become simply a way of fixing global capitalism in its present crisis-ridden form. Instead, the analysis of alternative economic spaces must continue to offer a critique of the very notion of capitalism as a universal, if variable, set of social relations. This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they might be sustained. A central theme is the need to examine critically both the material contexts and the conceptual categories deployed in the making of alternative economies.
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'This rich and inspiring collection samples an exciting new scholarly tradition, one that draws upon and feeds into the social movements that are transforming economies worldwide. At once supportive and critical, Interrogating Alterity is a must read for anyone interested in the other economies currently taking shape on the ground.' J.K. Gibson-Graham, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and University of Western Sydney, Australia
I: On Alternatives and Diversity; 1: 'Alternative' This, 'Alternative'
That : Interrogating Alterity and Diversity 1; II: Alternative Spaces of
Finance, Production and Innovation; 2: The Longevity of Alternative Economic
Practices: Lessons from Alternative Currency Networks; 3: Alterity's
Geographies: Socio-territoriality and Difference in Islamic Banking and
Finance; 4: Finding Alterity in Innovation or Finding Innovation in
Alterity?; 5: Mutual Dependency, Diversity and Alterity in Production:
Cooperatives, Group Contracting and Factories; 6: On the Alternativeness of
Alternative Food Networks: Sustainability and the Co-production of Social and
Ecological Wealth; III: Alternative Markets and Spaces of Consumption; 7: How
Fair is Fair Enough? Negotiating Alterity and Compromise Within the German
Fair Trade Movement; 8: On Not Keeping up with the Joneses: Is it
Alternative' Not to Shop?; 9: Something Different for the Weekend' 1
Alterity, Performance, Routine and Proficiency at Farmers' Markets in the
Northeast of England; 10: Are You Alternative? Alternative' Food Networks
and Consumers' Definitions of Alterity; 11: The Danish Organic Movement: From
Social Movement to Market Mainstream and Beyond?; IV: Alternative Spaces of
Social Enterprise and Development; 12: Time Banking: A New Economics
Alternative; 13: Where is the Social' in Social Enterprise?; 14: Social
Enterprise and Socio-legal Structure: Constructing Alternative Institutional
Spaces for Economic Development; 15: Housing in Common: In Search of a
Strategy for Housing Alterity in England in the 21st Century; 16: Diverse
Present(s), Alternative Futures; V: Conclusion Critical Reflections on
Alterity and Diversity; 17: Spiders, Bees or Architects? Imagination and the
Radical Immanence of Alternatives/Diversity for Political-Economic Geographies
Duncan Fuller, Northumbria University, UK, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Hull University, UK and Professor Roger Lee AcSS, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK
