Theorizing and illustrating diverse, more-than-capitalist economies, this broad-ranging Handbook presents ways in which it is possible to imagine and enact other ways of being. It gathers together empirical examples of diverse economic practices and experiments from across the world, framed by in-depth discussions of key theoretical concepts. Organized into thematic sections, the Handbook moves from looking at diverse forms of enterprise, to labour, transactions, property, and finance as well as decentred subjectivity and diverse economies methodology. Chapters present a wide diversity of economic practices that make up contemporary economies, many of which are ignored or devalued by mainstream economic theory. Pushing the boundaries of economic thinking to include more than human labour and human/non-human interdependence, it highlights the challenges of enacting ethical economies in the face of dominant ways of thinking and being. Economic geography, political economy and development studies scholars will greatly appreciate the empirical examples of diverse economic practices blended with theory throughout the Handbook. It will also benefit policymakers and practitioners working within diverse economies, or looking to create more ethical ways of living.
Author(s): J. K. Gibson-Graham (editor); Kelly Dombroski (editor)
Series: Economics 2020
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 576
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Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter01-Introduction to The Handbook of Diverse Economies inventory as ethical intervention
Chapter02-Framing essay the diversity of enterprise
Chapter03-Worker cooperatives
Chapter04-Self-managed enterprise worker-recuperated cooperatives in Argentina and Latin America
Chapter05-Community enterprise diverse designs for community-owned energy infrastructure
Chapter06-Eco-social enterprises ethical business in a post-socialist context
Chapter07-Enterprising new worlds social enterprise and the value of repair
Chapter08-Anti-mafia enterprise Italian strategies to counter violent economies
Chapter09-State and community enterprise negotiating water management in rural Ireland
Chapter10-Independent and small businesses diversity amongst the 99 per cent of businesses
Chapter11-Homo economicus and the capitalist corporation decentring authority and ownership
Chapter12-Framing essay the diversity of labour
Chapter13-Precarious labour Russias other transition
Chapter14-The persistence of informal and unpaid labour evidence from UK households
Chapter15-Paid and unpaid labour feminist economic activism in a diverse economy
Chapter16-Caring labour redistributing care work
Chapter17-Non-human labour the work of Earth Others
Chapter18-Collectively performed reciprocal labour reading for possibility
Chapter19-Informal mining labour economic plurality and household survival strategies
Chapter20-Migrant womens labour sustaining livelihoods through diverse economic practices in Accra, Ghana
Chapter21-Framing essay the diversity of transactions
Chapter22-Gleaning transactions at the nexus of food, commons and waste
Chapter23-Direct producer‚Ä consumer transactions Community Supported Agriculture and its offshoots
Chapter24-Direct food provisioning collective food procurement
Chapter25-Alternative currencies diverse experiments
Chapter26-Transacting services through time banking renegotiating equality and reshaping work
Chapter27-Fair trade market-based ethical encounters and the messy entanglements of living well
Chapter28-Social procurement generating social good through market transactions, directly and indirectly
Chapter29-Sharing cities new urban imaginaries for diverse economies
Chapter30-Framing essay the diversity of property
Chapter31-Commoning property in the city the ongoing work of making and remaking
Chapter32-Community land trusts embracing the relationality of property
Chapter33-Urban land markets in Africa multiplying possibilities via a diverse economy reading
Chapter34-A Slow Food commons cultivating conviviality across a range of property forms
Chapter35-Free universities as academic commons
Chapter36-Diverse legalities pluralism and instrumentalism
Chapter37-Framing essay the diversity of finance
Chapter38-Islamic finance diversity within difference
Chapter39-Rotating savings and credit associations mutual aid financing
Chapter40-Indigenous finance treaty settlement finance in Aotearoa New Zealand
Chapter41-Community finance marshalling investments for community-owned renewable energy enterprises
Chapter42-Hacking finance experiments with algorithmic activism
Chapter43-Framing essay subjectivity in a diverse economy
Chapter44-More-than-human agency from the human economy to ecological livelihoods
Chapter45-On power and the uses of genealogy for building community economies
Chapter46-Techniques for shifting economic subjectivity promoting an assets-based stance with artists and artisans
Chapter47-Affect and subjectivity learning to be affected in diverse economies scholarship
Chapter48-Diverse subjectivities, sexualities and economies challenging hetero- and homonormativity
Chapter49-Journeys of postdevelopment subjectivity transformation a shared narrative of scholars from the majority world
Chapter50-Framing essay diverse economies methodology
Chapter51-Translating diverse economies in the Anglocene
Chapter52-Reading for economic difference
Chapter53-Field methods for assemblage analysis tracing relations between difference and dominance
Chapter54-Visualizing and analysing diverse economies with GIS a resource for performative research
Chapter55-Working with Indigenous methodologies Kaupapa Māori meets diverse economies
Chapter56-Action research for diverse economies
Chapter57-Focusing on assets action research for an inclusive and diverse workplace
Chapter58-How to reclaim the economy using artistic means the case of Company Drinks
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