Holloway, L. and Cox, Rosie and Kneafsey, M. and Dowler, E. and Venn, L. and Tuomainen, H. (2010) Are you alternative? motivations for participation in ’alternative’ food schemes. In: Fuller, D. and Jonas, A. and Lee, R. (eds.) Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces. Ashgate Economic Geography Series. Oxford, UK: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 161-174. ISBN 9780754673415.
Abstract
Book synopsis: 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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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE), Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2013 08:35 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6459 |
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